In Rebels she was still an Imperial Senator when she made a big, public “The galaxy needs to rebel against the Empire” announcement and immediately ran, so I don’t think she’s going to be on the run anytime soon. With the overall vibe of this show, I think it’s more likely she’ll be forced to make sacrifice after…

I thought the 400,000 credits was just the amount she was trying to quietly move around to support the Rebels. I got the impression that it’s only a tiny fraction of her actual fortune.

I don’t know for sure, but also, addiction is weird. Your body chemistry adjusts to the point where you can regularly ingest super-human amounts that should kill you. That’s why so many ODs happen during a relapse. You take an amount that used to be normal or even light for you, but your body has lost that insane…

Wasn’t he also basically just quoting himself from the 90s? That’s how it sounded to me . . .

Yeah, I love “movie CPR” where you do CPR for a couple of minutes in, like, a parking lot, and the patient takes a deep breath and then they’re fine. No need for additional medical care, they can immediately go back to whatever they were doing. Uhh, no.

It’s an often overlooked Sergio Leone western, part of his “Once Upon a Time in . . .” series. 

Can’t forget Duck, You Sucker! with James Coburn. 

“You Don’t Love me Anymore” wasn’t a parody, but the video certainly was:

Yeah, I worked at Blockbuster in the mid 90s and it was always, “two or maybe three plus a manager.” If it was an exceptionally busy/large location I could see adding a shift or two during Friday and Saturday nights or when some big new release was coming in that was going to mean a major reorganization of the New…

She absolutely nails the whole “Madonna in the 80s” vibe. She’s so good I really want a sequel that’s all about this movie’s version of Madonna. 

Do we, though? 

Exactly, to Michael, they were a sitcom-style “workplace family”, to everyone else it was just their fucking job. It was also a brilliant move that, aside from Jim and Pam, the rest of the office really had nothing in common with each other. They mostly didn’t particularly mind being around each other, but these…

Yeah, it was pretty much waiting to see what the host/celebrity guest’s version of the accent would be (Mick Jagger was hilariously bizarre).

I really don’t get why they didn’t go whole-hog and make this a 90s set show. You want to mine nostalgia for Blockbuster, just fucking go for it and set it in a time and place where Blockbuster was ubiquitous. Plus . . . I fucking hate the whole “we’re such a family here” workplace sitcom dynamic. There’s nothing…

is it cruel, ironic, or meta that Blockbuster is a Netflix original? Perhaps it’s a mix of all three . . .

I think the movie COULD’VE worked with essentially the same plot IF we’d have been locked into Lawrence’s character’s perspective instead of Chris Pratt’s. It still would've been a TOUGH sell, but it would've at least been possible. 

I like the idea of a “swingin’ 60s” Fantastic Four, but to make it work there’d need to be some sort of No Way Home-style mass memory wipe thingie before shuffling them off to the Negative Zone/Quantum Realm/Whatever. It’s not so much about the comic origin, it’s more that a 60s set superhero movie would be a lot of…

Honestly, I want a ‘70s style Green Lantern show in the “Incredible Hulk” mold, complete with a bitchin’ disco theme song and voice-over opening credits. 

Yeah, I’ve heard much the same, the pace of writing and producing a weekly live sketch show is just staggeringly brutal. Some people thrive on that (obviously Keenan Thompson found his sweet spot), but for most sane human beings, even if it’s fun, there’s only so much you can take before it’s just not worth it.

There was a fun little movie with an absurdly stacked cast called “Confidence” in the early ‘00s where Dustin Hoffman plays a gangster type. Apparently he had recently been injured and was blitzed up to his eyeballs on painkillers for the whole movie.