I just watched one of those Chrysler ads o YouTube. Hearing Montalban say “Rich, Corinthian leather” did something to me.

There’s so much awful in that film. The two worst that stand out to me is the Enterprise falling out of orbit from the Moon to crash into the Earth because the engines turn off in the space of about four minutes, and taking one of the most iconic and moving scenes in all of Trek (Spock’s death), and doing a role-revers…

I maintain that Into Darkness would be significantly better if Cumberbatch was exactly who he appeared to be in the beginning of the movie instead of turning out to be Khan. As soon as that reveal happens it all starts to fall apart.

The whole trying to keep Khan a surprise twist was ridiculous. Cumberbatch is great, but Khan shouldn’t be a British white guy, Naveen Andrews would have killed that role. It’s an iconic, juicy villain role that actually calls for an Indian actor, and they get the whitest man on the planet to play him, still salty…

Okay holy shit you got me with “silly old bare”.  Nice one.

“One might call it a silly old bare”

The thing to remember about comic book logic is that sometimes you wind up writing a story for no better reason than an artist was goofing around and drew something awesome, like a film noir Spider-Man in a porkpie hat. A lot of comics writers fail that challenge, but that doesn’t mean some people won’t love the…

I’m not sure if Krispy Kreme exists outside the region where I live but their larger sites still make the donuts fresh. There’s even windows so you can watch. Pretty much just donuts though, I’m not sure if they even serve anything else

The thing with the first decade of the MCU is while its all interconnected now, they were making that shit as they went along. They would pop teasers in and such at the end of other movies to build interconnected stories but they had no idea what those stories were going to be. They literally didn’t figure out where al…

I feel like post Endgame most of us have pretty much checked out and are just watching out of strange sense of obligation.

I support your thesis. The Infinity Stones run was so expertly paced with nice little nuggets pepper throughout and post-credit scenes that sometimes made us say, “WHAT?!” We were deep into Phase 2 before we even realized Thanos and the stones was the big picture.

But here’s Marvel, announcing the next two Avengers…

I’m glad that I stopped paying attention to Marvel after Endgame. It all seems just so exhausting to keep up with anymore.

Picanick basket lids.  

Actually, 2022 was a pretty good year for them to establish credit, invest, and thrive. It’s been a bear market, you know.

So from what I understand, there are (or were) three DC movies that would have Michael Keaton in them as ‘89 Batman: Batgirl has been shitcanned, Aquaman 2 cut all of the Keaton scenes and is replacing them with Batfleck, and then there’s The Flash, which I only cared about in the first place because of Keaton being…

I’m with Tarantino on the Ocean’s 11 remake:

The Battlestar Galactica remake really fucked the ending, though I guess I should thank it for helping me miss the Game of Thrones debacle by having starting me on the road to quitting watching TV.

Buffy was great in its time, but it was also very much of its time, including all the things that did not age well. It’s also been so imitated that all the things that seemed groundbreaking at the time now almost seem tropey and cliched. It would take a hell of a lot for a reboot to seem at all fresh. It would have to…

Ocean’s Eleven is my go-to example for that. The 1960 movie was... not great. Drawn-out and lumpy. So you take a good solid idea and remake it with style and pizazz and fantastic casting.

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