“Surely the scene where Sylvie shows Hunter B-15 memories of her past life was meant to be a flashback montage, not just two women standing in a rainy parking lot.”

That scene worked for me. We didn’t need to see. In fact, I think the lack of flashback made it easier for viewers to put themselves in B-15's place.…

“Name?”

Anyway, how is your Sex/Life?

I don’t recall “The Blind Side” being discussed as part of any culture war. It was instead a feel-good underdog sports movie (although athletics is one area where he isn’t an underdog).

The idea that China created the virus deliberately as a weapon (which people like Ron Johnson have suggested) is indeed a stupid conspiracy theory (as the virus clearly looks natural and very much like ones we’ve seen in bats), but the lab leak hypothesis isn’t the same thing. That doesn’t mean it is necessarily true,…

The last R-rated one, too. Before that, you have to go all the way back to T2, then Rain Man. That’s it until the ‘70s which had two in a row (The Exorcist and The Godfather). And that’s all.

They are two of the many descendants of The Most Dangerous Game

I don’t care what anyone else thinks - the end of Catching Fire, the shot which focuses on Katniss’ face from above as she hears about and processes the fact that her District had been wiped off the map by the Capitol, might be the single best moment of Jennifer Lawrence’s acting career. The way she goes from shock,…

yeah the Battle Royale/Hunger Games thing seems like an internet mindset where if one exists before the other than clearly the former influenced the latter, even though it’s entirely possibly for the latter not to be aware of the idea through sheer lack of resources.

I love Catching Fire’s final shot. An extreme close-up of Lawrence’s face as she gradually brings her character’s competing emotions into a look of solid determination. From what I remember, the next film walks that back and spends much of its runtime building her up to the same point.

I always liked Catching Fire the best out of all the movies in this series, partly because it was so downbeat and partly because it felt like a beat-for-beat remake of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

“Police reform (abolition is a bridge too far for this genre)“

I don’t disagree with your Pete pick, but I feel like he’s too limited to be a star for long. The others may not have starpower, but I think they have more versatility that will lead to longer careers.

Its trio of young stars stayed with the franchise the whole time, handled the brain-crushing media attention with grace, and managed not to become cautionary tales.

Did the movies not make it clear that he was basically wizard Hitler? The books make it obvious it was all about racial purity — and is also why Rowling’s heel-turn as a TERF is so fucking ironic.

I think it invented it in the sense of splitting the source material into two.  If you are going to make a case for the Matrix, I’d make one for Back to the Future.

Since Mare has from the beginning been written more as a hero than anti-hero, her very heinous action against Cassie tonight, while set up in the episode, came too suddenly for me. A little. I understand all the forces that led to this self-destructive choice, but it was still surprising and disappointing, not just…

Buddy you are picking the worst fight at the WORST time for the WORST stakes

I think saying there were 6 seasons of masterful TV is stretching it. The seams started to show by season 5, aka when they ran out of book to crib. By season 6 D&D’s bad impulses and shortcomings were on full display.