So ... it’s 11 years later. Can we assume you two are happily married?

I’m super confused. Does everyone in Weezer have really bad accountants? Because they don’t seem to have been enjoying their careers for at least 10 years now, probably more, but they seem like they shouldn’t have to be doing all this shit and should be set for life.

No disagreement there. It’s a gross, offensive trope and needs to die.

In addition, no one should fool themselves that anything on the Newsroom remotely resembles real journalism.

The Newsroom is a laughable example of journalism, though, even leaving aside the cheat of them covering the news “right” with the benefit of Sorkin’s 20/20 hindsight.

I’m also failing to see how this is anything other than eird and ill-advised. I don’t see how you get from here to “fuck you, stupid neckbeards,” although the Clinton campaign did go through several slogans, so maybe that was one I forgot.

From the piece:

The David Lee Roth biopic would at least avoid being predictable or boring.

(Rocketman looks decent, based on the trailer, of course.)

Or they were the ones folks wouldn’t miss.

The head honchos of the company disappearing could be all sorts of Weird Super Rich People Shit. If they disappear with their top scientists, the competition will know something’s up.

That was one of the key issues with GB2, IMO. If Manhattan got overrun with ghosts in the original movie, how does anyone think the Ghostbusters are frauds a few years later?

I would love to see a little thought given to worldbuilding, but I honestly don’t think anyone who’s actually involved with the movies could give…

That’s a very plausible version of things, since inside the Hollywood bubble, that is what that phrasing means.

That said, Ghostbusters Fan #1 should be aware that the franchise has been stuck in culture war hell since 2015 and shouldn’t say stupid shit without bearing in mind how it might sound to partisans, whom he’s…

Ghostbusters 2 is dogshit. It might have been dogshit you bonded with because you were a little kid when it came out which, you know, we all do that with stuff. But it’s a terrible movie, and absolutely phoned in by everyone in the original cast, down to yet another large creature marching through the streets of NYC…

I don’t know that you can find a better comedic actor in 2016 or 2019 than Kate McKinnon. If that’s a stunt, more movies need stunt casting.

Was it just to say “fuck you stupid neckbeards” (which seemed to be the entire marketing campaign for that movie anyway)?

Rhea Perlman is awesome and needs the work.

No, it assumes that because pretty much all of the coverage of the 2016 movie from its announcement through to a few months after its release had tons of shitty misogynist commenters.

If you weren’t one of them, awesome, but they existed in huge numbers and “contributed” to Rotten Tomatoes and other places where the…

Everyone’s just chasing the ratings, man.

With Baum, he had all earthly communication with Oz cut off in The Emerald City of Oz, the fifth book, so that was supposed to be the end of the series.

In the introduction to the sixth book, he makes no bones that this is all anyone wants him to write, despite him having other stories to tell. He ended up writing nine…

The Baum books are full of weird shit worthy of being mined. I think most of his books are in the public domain now. (The Thompson ones come later and, frankly, are a lot less worthy of being plundered.)

I would have to go back and rewatch the rest of Scott’s films and see if it was always there at some level, but there’s definitely a feeling in his 21st century films that actors and characters are mostly just chess pieces to be moved around through the plot and various visually interesting set pieces.

It’s unpopular to say anything nice about this movie, but Prometheus did a great job of this. Humans are — apparently — some sort of afterthought created by unknowable, alien and — when we stupidly make them aware of us — actively hostile ancients who might as well be gods.

The smartest thing we can do, beyond not…