I was actually okay with the Beautiful Mind stuff, since portraying him as having a bunch of affairs would just perpetuate harmful stereotypes.

Who could have foreseen Paul Reiser becoming Hollywood’s hottest actor for “old fuddyduddy who doesn’t get young people”?

It feels like Avatar was the biggest thing in the world for two months, and then the entire world forgot it ever existed. Ask a random person on the street, and odds are they won’t be able to name a single character. Because there’s nothing there beyond the visuals.

There was even an episode where Sidney agrees to give him a Section 8, but it will mean spending the rest of his life crossdressing or getting arrested for fraud, so he refuses.

Robert Altman didn’t want the film to have a single reference to Korea, and hated that the studio forced in that opening text crawl.

Also, in the book Trapper John got that nickname by raping a woman on a train.

I imagine Spearchucker was dropped because they realized the joke of his name might work in a “crossing the line twice” kind of way in a ten minute segment of a movie, but asking people to laugh at it week after week gets tiresome incredibly fast.

Also, for all that the justified criticism that the end of Game of Thrones got, one bit that really impressed me was how it neatly sidestepped all the potential for Dany’s ending to come off as a message of “women should never have power” by also having Sansa end up in charge of the North, which is presented…

Though it’s still rather more passionate and personal than in the book, where Joffrey was accidentally killed in the tournament celebrating the wedding.

Anyone else have a distinct problem throughout the episode of the dialogue being drowned out by the background noise? I’ve never noticed it this badly before in either show.

“Rhaenyra and Laenor’s coded conversation about their sexual preferences (“roast duck” versus “roast goose”) feels like a Westerosi homage to the Schitt’s Creek scene in which David Rose uses wine varietals as a metaphor for pansexuality.”

I realized Isildur’s sister looks AND sounds like a porn parody actress for Emma Watson, and now all her scenes are wrecked.

“indictment of progressive culture”

It’s been so long I legit just assumed the show was cancelled. But I really loved it, so this is a great surprise.

I recall first hearing it used that way in the Simpsons episode with John Waters. “Stop saying queer. That’s our word for making fun of you. We need it.”

This is why Patty Jenkins left Thor: The Dark World, as she knew she’d never be able to save the script and the entire narrative around the movie would be “this is what happens when a woman directs a superhero movie.”

Zazlav has stopped getting the same high from cancelling his own stuff, and now he’s forcing other studios to do it so he can keep chasing that dragon, the sick bastard.

Bonus points for the original story being born from Hans Christian Anderson’s anguish over not being able to be with the man he loved. So there’s something to throw in the face of everyone claiming to care about the author’s intention.

II gets a lot of points for making a genuine effort to be something different than the first movie while still holding true to its spirit. Then with III they got scared and just made the first movie again. Call it the Rise of Skywalker to II’s Last Jedi.

In the comics, her powers were permanently nerfed by Rogue absorbing them (which is why Rogue can fly and has super strength in addition to life-draining). I’m pretty sure with X-Men on the way, something like that will be part of it.