Daniel Day Lewis?

The Shining section was a real blot on the movie version of Ready Player One for me. It’s a long sequence, from a film that for all its merits, is too singular, too timeless to be a nostalgic touchstone. Plus it was made in 1977. For a movie built around a memory of the 80's, that’s an odd choice. I suspect that Spielb…

However sad this is, and it is sad, infinitely sadder is the inevitable death-march to the day when Disney decides to remake the OT. Because that will happen.

I suspect also that people made superhero parodies back then because it had never yet been established that the serious (-ish) superhero movie was a viable genre. You’d had the Superman films come and go, Batman was its own thing, but superheroes in general? Risky. So people who liked that kind of thing and wanted to…

It opens in Hell, where the King of All Spiders asks Spider-Man to be its emissary.

Not only that, it’s the origin the the expression “a Donner kebab”!

Oh for God’s sake.

This is all in fun and fascinating, but obviously, the ships create highly aerodynamic forcefields when flying in an atmosphere.

That could totally be a thing. They should have put that in the movie. See, it just needed a bit more thought, a year of script work and... ah never mind.

If you can’t afford a not-Kevin Sorbo, you have to settle for Kevin Sorbo. He’s the exception that proves the rule!

Per-capita wealth is meaningless in this context because there just aren’t that many Indian Americans. How does that mitigate the fact that the majority of the wealth is controlled by an elite that is mostly white?

A permanent new Wells

Well.. Farley, in his day...

Those giant heels and Li BingBing is still not as tall as Jason Statham... she must be tiny!

Yep, if I’m trying to figure out who the villain is in a Hollywood movie, I’d never go for the seasoned British character actor who seems underused 3/4 of the way into the movie!

Solo is perfectly adequate. The script is better than the direction, a sort of reverse-TLJ.

It’s really good. But nearly wasn’t. One good movie out of four is not a hopeful sign.

The person in the picture is 31 years old?

I know right! And it’s even more amazing that he can do all that while being, you know... fat.

Sadly, it’s untrue: Russia’s invasions of Georgia and Ukraine both involved countries with McDonalds’s. And Panama had one when the USA invaded.