Ayer is all “CALM IT DOWN--THE BOTH OF YOU!!!”

I’m sure I’m projecting a bit, as I’m a huge fan of his and have seen him many times live, and I fucking hate it with a passion.  I’m sure he likes the money it brought in being one of his bigger hits, so I can’t blame him for not being harder on it.  It’s a terrible song, though, no matter who sings it. 

You joke, but really it’s accurate--you shouldn’t need to remember anything for a prequel.

Billy Joel hates that song and calls it the worst he’s ever written (arguable, of course)

I think one of the biggest issues with any Netflix show is the model they created does not really work that well for programs designed to go on for a while.  Binging hurts TV, even  though everyone seems to love it.  But you watch a show you love in a week....and then even if season two comes on a year later it feels…

lol I’m in my 50's and I’m embarrassed for you.  I have kids, so that’s a cheat code for this stuff, but some of these people are top earners in the entertainment industry.  Hell, I even recognized the guy the cameo’d in Five Nights at Freddies.  

Yeah that’s nuts to me as well.  He’s not as popular, and never has been.  You could make the best Ant-Man movie ever and it would still be Ant-Man.

Film studios have always used ‘creative accounting’ --maybe more so than any other industry that comes to mind.  This just seems like more of the same shenanigans.

God how I wish games would stop with the ‘boss fight—ROUND 2...and then--ROUND 3!!1!11!!’ tactic. Either make the one round longer and more interesting, or let it end. Even Spider-Man does this and it’s maddening.

Glad it made sense to you, though honestly it sounds like you work for them (I’m sort of kidding, but your take—while technically correct— is hardly the prevalent one).  Even if the reasoning is sound, it was a dumb decision because it discounted brand recognition.  The HBO model was going to have to change no matter…

Keeping the government open is a monthly challenge anymore, it seems.

the film industry has always been known for its shady book-keeping—-maybe more than any other industry, and no one seems to give a shit except the handful of people that get screwed in those deals. Why is this all that different?

I was wondering how the issues prevelant in comics would work in movies, and it’s starting to look like a pretty simple answer: they don’t. As an avid comic reader for a very long time, it’s pretty easy to shrug off how some world ending thing is only being dealt with by Iron Man when there are literally thousands of…

This is a great description and pretty much how I took it. I laughed very hard at several parts I’m reasonably sure were meant to be funny (the internal monologue getting cut off by real world violence combined with the look on Fassbender’s face of surprise that anyone would dare interrupt struck me as gleefully funny…

Different strokes and all, but I thoroughly enjoyed this film, though I was in a very sleep-deprived and wound up state while watching it--which very much matched the main character’s tone during this film. I don’t know that it was supposed to be all that exciting, and Fassbender’s monologue/voiceover made it far more…

I read a description of the entire movie being a metaphor for Jodie Foster’s characters brain in “Panic Room”, with the trio of villians being the id, ego and super-ego, and it playing out the way it did as a ‘revenge narrative’ for how badly her ex-husband treated her and how helpless it made her feel, and I’ll be…

It was a bizarre choice for sure.  Overall it was...fine, I guess, but the reviewer pretty well nails the issues with the pacing.  I mean, I’m not sure more of this would have made it better, but maybe less plot would have?  The exposition dumps were exhausting, and seemingly endless.  Kamala is fantastic, though, and…

Nice list—there’s a few I need to check out for sure.