Chris Evans used to have that type of charm/typecasting but he’s actually been in some good movies where he showed he’s got more than just “large retriever dog merged with a human” and whenever Pratt tries to shed that image he just comes off as a dick like you said.

I hope this doesn’t come off as excusing behavior, but it seems like part of the problem was that Gilliam was given a pass. Like if you gave any given person permission to do whatever they wanted to, they’d probably do terrible things.

Pratt’s only skill is being a wisecracking doofus. Trying to make him a pursed lips rugged action star was the mistake this series never had a chance to overcome.

For some reason, it was during the trailer for this movie that this frustration hit me with the basic premise. Not the dinosaurs roaming around, but the concept that they would be an existential threat to humanity that could just not be figured out. Like if there is one thing that humanity is really good at, it is…

“Rumor has it that Spielberg once wanted a Jurassic film to build to scenes involving dinosaurs strapped with rockets, running into battle”

Yes, accenting the English makes zero sense. The choice they made for Chernobyl was the right one. It’s stupid to have English speaking actors speak English with Russian accents, that’s not more realistic and it only adds a layer of unnecessary difficulty for the actors. It’s not like audience would be stupid enough…

There’s also a Comanche language version with English subtitles, which sounds cool as hell.

Dinos are the ancestors of birds, not their descendants.

Because if your slogan is ‘The beer that tastes like water!’ you’re not gonna sell much of it.

Star Wars continuity was permanently broken in 1999, so why would anyone writing in that world bother fruitlessly trying to fix it when they can just play in the world as it exists now?

“Bill?”

I think a lot of critics could do well to see how he appraises a movie for what it set out to do, rather than trying to hold it to some idealised standard.

The first half of Spies Like Us is side-splitting funny.  Once the mission starts it sort of fizzles.

To me the big reason it didn’t land with audience is that in 1987 the Warren Beatty-Dustin Hoffman pairing wasn’t funny in the way that viewers of the time expected, both way too mannered and image-conscious. With Steve Martin and Bill Murray it would have killed

It was branded a dud long before it was released. It absolutely contributed to tanking the film.

She arches her eyebrows and carries him around, possibly to a bedroom! That’s pretty explicit for the MCU!

R.E.D. + Shooter

Am I the only person who’s legitimately 30-70% less likely to watch this for the simple reason that Miles Teller is in it in a major role? It’s fine if it’s just me.

The basic premise of the show is that Sam is leaping in order to “make right what once went wrong”. In order for that to work, someone or something has to define right and wrong. Without that moral grounding, the show is just some guy dicking around with people’s lives.

Like half the cast of TNG was on Gargoyles right?