Shut up, Miyazaki, if anime were a mistake you wouldn’t have come out of retirement like 12 consecutive times. You know you love it.

While it’s easy to forget when one is plugged into the web so much, Anime still has a huge amount of stigma from everyday folks that I think is an important counterpoint to this. Yes it shouldn’t be mindblowing that people are into anime. However, what the actual point is is that they’re also referring to it as anime…

As mentioned, Idris Elba hated working on the Thor movies, as did Hugo Weaving.

The common denominator seems to be that they’re all theatrically-trained actors who ended up in roles that required tons of makeup and heavy costuming. Whoever could have guessed that that might have been a problem?

Agreed also...

To be fair, transporters are probably murder machines, so McCoy’s fear of those is completely rational.

I was going to say the same thing. Eccleston wears a fat chip on his shoulder. It’s understandable, though. The whole Doctor Who exit—especially the BBC’s fake statement on his behalf—would sour anybody on acting.

Fuck the Met for doing away with the suggested admission fee while executive salaries go up and up. https://nypost.com/2018/03/03/met-rewards-execs-with-hefty-bonuses-despite-budget-deficit/

It sounds to me like the got badly burned by the BBC, and problem films come up as a sore spot for him, probably because he feels he’d never have to do that type of work if the BBC hadn’t cast him out.

He’s not really saying films like G. I. Joe or Thor were problems, though...just that he hated working on them.

Kind of reminds me of this poster for McCoy:

If you run into an asshole in the morning, you’ve run into an asshole. If you keep running into assholes all day, though....

Nic Cage films apparently.

“I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific!”

And the ep where you find out ted somehow meets a girl on world of warcraft who somehow also happens to live in new york.

...enough to have stormtrooper armor? Being a nerd is less about what you love, and more about how much you love it.

Halliday is a nerd that never fit in, with friends, especially with girls, with life in general. Video games allowed him to escape to a world for he fit in and a world where his dreams could come true. That is why he created OASIS.

Same thing with 30 Rock. They drop a Captain Needa reference and don’t explain it.

I’m not sure how they didn’t make that connection in this review, or if they did, I missed it.

I don’t get why people don’t get this. The novel is pretty explicit that those pop culture references are Halliday’s passion, not anyone else’s. They exist as a raison d’être for Halliday and Halliday alone. For literally everyone else in the entire universe, they’re simply a means to an ends. Wade can’t explain why…

Ready Player One doesn’t show any insight as to why we like comics, video games, TV shows, or movies.