that might be unrelated

Us would have worked better if it had explained less.

I don’t think anybody wants to work with him anymore.

Source Code was ok.

I wouldn’t say Warcraft is unwatchable, but it does appear to be missing its last act. It’s like Jones assumed he’d be making a sequel in very short order.

The Raid in Judge Dredd cosplay was good enough for me. And if/when Joe Carnahan gets to make his version of The Raid along the lines of the knife fight from Saving Private Ryan, I’ll want to see that too.

Roger Ebert noted the satire in Starship Troopers in his review at the time. Like me, he just didn’t think it was good satire. I do think Ebert misremembered the book, which wasn’t especially good (I reviewed it here) but in a different way than you might think based on its supposed adaptation.

ourselves admittedly included

Ooh, I guess you prefer the Burton Batman. I suppose Nolan could take another shot at it with “Beetlejuice: The Musical!: The Movie!”.

Was there someone like Dennis Hopper at that Waterworld?

When you put it that way, he really is a relatable character!

Enough changes and you wind up with the Ship of Theseus, or a Radio Yerevan joke.

It might be your sense of netiquette, but my observation over the course of many threads (including at this very site) is that they can go off in any direction the commentariat finds interesting. And precisely because people can scroll past what they’re not interested in, that’s considered acceptable. It’s really…

IQ testing selects for the brown people with the highest aptitude, and therefore the brown children with the highest aptitude

Good point about price. It seems a consumer with a preference for text over recordings thus has a sort of advantage over other consumers. And it now occurs to me that since I started reading the AV Club regularly, I’ve been reading fewer books and watching more movies/tv :(

Yes, the dearth of new movies has meant they’ve had theme weeks to revisit older movies, and his appearance in Tenet was apparently enough to justify this.

I appreciate you’re covering movies I’ve actually seen rather than Harold Porter and the Fantabulous Contraption, but I worry you might trick readers into watching Maps to the Stars. It’s not worth viewing, and Pattinson isn’t interesting in it. A shame Cronenberg hasn’t made anything since.

I used to regularly watch Monk in its early seasons. Psych, on the other hand, seemed calculated to annoy me. Sort of like Scott Pilgrim.

She did direct a short film that she starred in.

I brought up the example of Ray Fisher earlier, and I suppose that also fits your discussion of the initial director casting someone and having a good rapport, but that not being sustained with another director. And in both cases it seems like the studio can be blamed for letting each cook spoil each other’s broth.