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…

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

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?

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!

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.

I have some Valerian in my kitchen cupboard. The box says “aids restful sleep”. So yes I’d say there’s a consensus on that.

Come on, everyone knows the way to foil a speedster is to attack when they’ve inexplicably raced at superspeed to your vicinity, then instead of clocking you before you know what’s what, they’ve just kinda stopped to confront you at normal speed and look all sad and judgemental.

Knowing the BBC, they will choose some appalling douchebag who’s aged out of Radio 1. It will be Chris Moyles.

Furby centipede.

I mean, he’s in the middle of a phone call and thinks what - “oh, I really want to hold my lightsaber right now. Would it look weird if I walked over to it? I know, Force Pull!” - grabs the saber, then switches it on (why? checking the batteries?) then off again.

Hi activates his lightsaber because some audience members might not remember Darth Maul from 15 years ago, so he lights up the double saber to remind them. You know, like Deadpool talking to the audience. Only much, much dumber.

“Squandering the most interesting new Star Wars character right off the bat was widely viewed as a mistake, one emblematic of everything ill-considered about the prequel trilogy”

That’s fascinating! I find it interesting in more general terms how the portrayal of how the West looked changed with the times from the 1920's (when the old West was in living memory), to the 50's (slick hair, clean-shaven, high waisted pants, neat waistcoats), to the 70's (shaggy hair, long coats, more Mexican…

Yes. Indeed they did!

Ah, the good old days. When Nazis hid, and needed to be hunted. Instead of, you know, being readily accessible via their YouTUBE channels.

Thing is that they did. From the link that you linked: