A lot of Nazis are pro-Israel to the extent that its a good smokescreen to hide the antisemitism and, like the Israeli government, also hate Muslims.

Excellent interview. I really liked this — “What I did was trust that step by step by step by step, I was bringing to the work that which needed to be brought” — he talks about trust with Lee during the big monologue scene as well but this level of trust with yourself and the work you’ve done and are doing seems…

Shit, man...that’s killer.

Agatha gets a very severe punishment, the loss of her identity, when she did far less harm than Wanda (yes, I know, she killed Sparky. But still.)

They would be insane not to bring Hahn back as soon as possible, she’s the biggest breakout villain casting the MCU has had since... I don’t know, Michael B Jordan maybe?

I thought each episode of Wanda’s sitcom-a-rama equaled one day, which is still terrible.

To be fair, said family was basically her imaginary friends who had no existence in the real world, and the real Vision is still out there, maybe without all the empathy he had in his first “life” but now with his memories of their pre-Westview life, so maybe he’ll begin to “humanize” again and want to start a…

The townsfolk never even got an apology for their months-long(?) living nightmare, which annoyed me.

The standard of “movies have to have coherent narratives all the way through” was a bit flexible from about 1977 to 1983

I wonder what the birth-year dividing line is between “man it’s too bad the second half of Stripes sucks” and “who cares that second half of Stripes kinda sucks?!?!”

These movies were running on cable in endless loops in the 90s and 00s when I was teen and 20s. So it’s not like Gen X is the cutoff for seeing them all way too many times.

I really do think that the Gen X equivalent of 1960s and early 70s boomer-friendly now-classic rock is the Landis/Reitman/Ramis/SNL guys comedies of the late ’70s and ‘80s.

Like classic rock of that earlier era, a lot of it is quite good; and like boomers, there are certain guys who just CANNOT deal with anyone…

What you call “optimistic, heavy-handed moralizing” is exactly what I like about Star Trek. I want a show where the characters don’t all seem to hate each other. I want a show that isn’t full of nothing but brutal violence, pessimism, racism, and explosions. I want a show where the characters face at least plausibly…

“The Orville is basically already a show for people who wanted star trek to be star trek again.”

“Every other star trek was terrible, but they keep trying to get the moment in the sun back”

I thought TMP felt more like 2001 than Trek.

That’s just crazy talk.

Is the idea “let’s make some Star Trek that actually feels like Star Trek”?

Remember when he was in Shawn of the Dead?  God almighty the range on this man. Long as the Nile.