My #1 fascination with this show continues to be that Gaal is positioned as the lead protagonist — unquestionably in the first couple episodes, and then maintained as a persistent presence even in the episodes she doesn’t appear, with her unnecessary narration at the beginning and end. Yet she doesn’t make anything hap…

His exasperated “fuck” should be the most popular gif in the world, yet I don’t think I’ve ever seen it, even once.

I think this is a good articulation of The Witcher’s strength, succeeding where many other Lord of the Rings-ish genre shows/movies have failed, it has a fantastic grasp of its tone. I’ve watched the first season twice and been delighted by it both times, I can’t get enough of Cavil’s take on Geralt. He’s a dour…

I think the premise of the show is interesting enough, it carves out a new niche in Star-Trek-as-a-place, which is meant to be more accessible to newer and younger viewers (with most Trek diehards being TOS boomers or TNG children, ageing out of the target demographic). My frustrations, having just watched the show,…

I don’t have much memory of the 3, 4, 5 sequels, but they benefit from the lowering of expectations set by 2, which was, quite memorably, dogshit.

I guess this is the unpopular take, but I did think Scary Movie was very funny, at least in its time. Scream is smart funny, it’s satirical similar to the way that Robocop or Starship Troopers is satirical—a little bit beneath the surface of a movie that also works at a surface level as an entertaining entry in the…

couldn’t manage to make the humanial freak he portrayed in the 2019 Cats hot enough to capture the world’s hearts

Blade Runner 2049’s reception from who? I know it is remembered as a box office bomb, but it wasn’t *that* bad, it opened #1 (by a big margin) with nearly $40m domestic, and ultimately grossed nearly $100m domestic. That is meek by Marvel standards, but for a high concept sci-fi, that’s not bad—and it’s also very, very…

That just means it’s a renewable resource, which would make me feel better about mining it.

Someone commented “2une”, but I can’t remember who or exactly where, probably an earlier article on this site. I take no credit, but think that is the winner of the sequel naming contest.

They are already believers, why do they need it sold to them at all?

No one would describe Stewart’s Twilight performance as “kinetic energy that leaps from her body through the screen”, she’s basically catatonic—especially in the first movie, which I re-watched recently. But it is actually a good performance for what the character conceived by the book demands. She’s an introverted…

I thought this sounded like a good guess when I read it, and from what TMZ is reporting, you were exactly right.

The one true laugh line that I’m remembering is Momoa making a crack about Chalemet being scrawny. And that was in a scene that established the kind of relationship they have, it was natural humour, not winking at the camera to cut tension in the middle of a serious moment. There might be one or two other laugh lines…

Agreed, well worth seeing in theaters. Every penny of the budget is on the screen.

I understood the point once she got to it eventually, but they already set up that spiritual belief system in the previous episode, including how it made them distrustful of the empire, so it’s not like it was surprising for her for to articulate it.

I thought this was the best episode of the season, as it leaned into the things that I think work on the show, and almost completely trimmed the fat of the stuff that doesn’t work. I think this is headed in the right direction towards a show that is simply good and fun to watch, rather than one that is a fascinating…

I suppose that makes sense, I don’t really understand how these unions are structured. I looked up the local 44 and it was very specifically a prop worker union, but I see now that “IATSE” is much more expansive in scope.

If the IATSE didn’t have a member of their union on the set, how do they know more about what happened than anyone else?

If the director knows exactly what they’re doing, then yes, shooting back to back is not, in and of itself, going to make the movies worse. But if there’s anything the director can learn from the process of making the first movie (or for that matter, anyone else involved in the production, down to the special effects…