They didn’t think it would be a big hit; it was moved into this prime spot at the last minute when Deadpool and Wolverine was delayed.

So how far are we supposed to bend over to pretend this is so much better than something like what The Marvels got, just because we need to keep up the narrative that the MCU is dead?

I occasionally go back to Tim Burton’s Ed Wood just to remind myself that no matter how bad an artist someone is, that doesn’t mean at all that they can’t be a perfectly good and nice person who deserves happiness like anyone else. And if they’re still proud of their work, that should be celebrated.

One really interesting aspect is that this new series has now twice had a movie retrofitted to be part of an earlier franchise. Rise started out as a totally original script, but then the studio noted that it could easily be connected to Planet of the Apes with just a few alterations (anyone remember that brief shot…

This one was originally written as a new reboot of the franchise, and there reportedly wasn’t much rewriting to fit it into the prior continuity.

“It’s the most entertaining Apes movie since Dawn”

Anyone else think it would be hilarious if the movie keeps teasing that we’re about to see Furiosa lose her arm, but it never actually happens, and we’re left with “Check out the sequel to find out the story behind that. Maybe.”

By the way, he was a super right wing, sexist, racist, transphobic guy, and I refuse to forget that just because he died young.

Several people in the commentaries note that his being able to keep it together until he says “No parent should have to bury their child” adds a ton to the emotion.

The only actor to appear in more than one of the five films in the three-way ties for most Oscar nominations and wins.

By the way, these people seem to be pretty quiet about the non-binary Jedi in Tales of the Empire. Probably because no one told them to be mad about it, and they’re so little able to think for themselves that they couldn’t get there on their own.

The same thing happened to the 1940 Swiss Family Robinson film when the Disney one came out, especially notable because it had the first acting role of Orson Welles, a year before Citizen Kane. And now it’s on Disney+, so who won that fight?

The major difference is that the 1940 film is completely upfront that the husband is a nasty guy who’s up to no good, even if the full scope of his scheme comes as a surprise, while the 1944 one tries to make it a twist, which unfortunately can’t work at all now because everyone knows what “gaslighting” is.

One thing you’ll notice if you watch enough movies this old is that studios and/or filmmakers were very antsy about the audience’s willingness to sit through a straight drama for feature length, so they’d often add side characters whose sole purpose is to occasionally pop up for jokes. These usually come off as…

Was this the one where they had to add a scene to the last movie to explain how an actor lost a finger? I’m pretty sure that happened on one of these.

“At least Heder is managing to stave off a dark future filled with B-tier superhero flicks, as prophesied during her very funny cameo in season four of Barry.”

And this time the prostitutes the producers hired have to check out of the Golden Globes judges’ hotel rooms by 9 AM. It’s the only way to be fair.

I’ll note again that Blackberry is easily the best of these product biopic movies, simply for having the guts to not just end at the high point of the product’s success but instead go all the way to the point where it irreparably ended. The final visual metaphor for the company hitting rock bottom, which has been…

I remember that a lot of fans assumed Anthony was a different actor in Season 4 thanks to how much puberty had hit him.

This show shouldn’t have worked. The original movies are objectively silly as hell, with some of the most cartoonish villains you’ll ever see (but somehow edgelords have felt the need to insist are actually the heroes for decades now). But Cobra Kai actually manages to bring them into a more real world setting and…