I don’t get why people shit all over The Morning Show. With the exception of kind of a rough first episode, the season was, overall, quite wonderful IMO. The performances were great across the board (although Reese Witherspoon was just kind of playing herself). I loved it. I’ve watched it twice.

“Can I BE any more of a fighter pilot?”

“treating it like a scandal”

From the same tapes:

I guess I’m in the minority, but I have always hated this movie. While the trailer did look exciting, I was just old enough to remember the TV miniseries “V” that Emmerich was blatantly ripping off.

I read an interesting piece somewhere on how before 9/11, the aesthetic of movie explosions was basically “big balls of fire” like you see in Independence Day. After 9/11, you got “big walls of dust” like you see in Cloverfield. It’s largely true. 

Mars Attack was better. 

Before I saw this movie in the theater I read a review that described it as “War of the Worlds” as directed by Irwin Allen.

It set my expectation-meter PERFECTLY.

I saw it while tripping on mushrooms and it wasn’t even any good THEN.

T2

Matthew Perry turned down the role, because he didn’t think the film would be successful. Meaning we could have had a “wisecrack off” between peak era Perry and post Fresh Prince Smith.

We had Will Smith AND Harry Connick, Jr. in the same squadron, and we did not get ONE SINGLE SONG in this film? “Hey, guys, we are refueling your jets for the next ten minutes, so stand by”, and they pull out the squadron’s upright piano and do an amazing version of Danny Boy.

Titanic is the best silent movie of the late 20th century. Unfortunately, it has dialog. 

I always assumed that the way in which the ships were parked over spires, it was a direct visual callback to the Devils Tower in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but Emmerich thought, “what if it shoots us instead at that point”.  All the hopeful people from that film would have gotten killed in the first wave, and…

Did anyone ever think the tone Pullman uses when telling his daughter “Mommy’s sleeping now” suggests he’d just eased her suffering with a well placed pillow?

This was not my kind of film at all.  But I loved it.

I’d say Emmerich has made several great movies - he’s just never made a decent film.

I was an 11 year old boy who loved ST:TNG, JP, and had watched Fresh Prince after school every day. Enough said.

Son I had an Old Fashion at dinner today.  If that doesn't give away that I like this show nothing will.  I don't own apparently the Barbie collection though.  I hope the set doesn't come with Glenn.

[Looks at full set of Blu-Rays on shelf]