The little Silver Surfer is inspired. 

I’ve had Church’s several times and it’s been hit-or-miss. The first time I ordered from them it was SPECTACULAR, but it hasn’t lived up to it since.

Agreed, dark meat can be absolutely delicious . . . but it can also be really, really, really bad. White meat’s mostly a delivery vehicle for whatever you season it with and it’s a lot harder to fuck it up. 

Ronin is a good one. It should be taught in a “how to do a car chase” film school class. 

I love tire-squeals on dirt and gravel.
And seriously, Bond, you really need to have the steering checked out in your car. You’re not supposed to have that much play in the steering wheel.

Whether Aunt May is more interesting than Iron Man or Nick Fury is debatable, but the conflict that could focus just on Aunt May vs Spider-Man have kind of been done to death, don’t you think? Either Aunt May doesn’t know Peter is Spider-Man, so you have the bog-standard rehash of “Secret Identity getting in the way…

Also The Long Kiss Goodnight. And The Nice Guys managed to squeeze Christmas in right at the end.
Shane Black likes blowing shit up at Christmas. 

LA is fun, though it’s weird that they decided the Navy cops also basically has its own secret agent wing. New Orleans was also pretty good, Scott Bakula’s questionable accent and all. I give it a lot of credit for being one of the few shows to actually make an effort to grapple with the effects of the pandemic.

It blew my mind when I learned Catherine Zeta-Jones was Welsh.

Aw geez . . . use it, don’t use it, but don’t act like it was dreamt up by a bunch of white people.

Yeah, but I want to see somebody try to convince an Arizona sheriff that a guy named “Antonio Banderas” and looks like this is totally white.

As we all know, Anthony Hopkins is African-American.

The various NCISs have always been a decent mindless diversion for me when I’m cleaning or doing some rote work thing, but man that Hawaii one is bad.

That’s why I keep 250lbs of sandbags in the back of my ‘97 RWD Ranger. Without them, I can’t get over a speed bump in the snow and ice.

so you attribute the evil clouds in Rise of the Silver Surfer and Green Lantern to fear of tornadoes? Veddy interestink

I think Tom Holland’s Spidey works in-part because of the wider MCU world. Having those authority figures pushing him one way or another has allowed him to act like a teenager in a way the previous iterations couldn’t. I don’t get the whole “Spider-Man is a secondary character in his own movies” thing. He isn’t, the…

Why do comic book screenwriters think the scariest thing in the world is a purple or green cloud? “Fear of the unknown” I’m sure they say, but it’s clearly just laziness.

I’d argue that some of that freneticism is more native to Spielberg than to Bay

The nitpicker in me also wanted Naomi to be taller and lankier and generally more belter-y

Even at its overpopulated family-adventure worst, there’s really nothing about Crystal Skull that at all resembles Bay’s work, though.