Law school and medical school are subject to a similar dynamic - a small pond where the average fish size has scaled up dramatically.

It is indeed subtitled, which I know some people have a problem with (either broadly, or pragmatically, as you note). And given the amount of money that looks to have been put into it, I think it’s a little strange that they didn’t invest in an English dub. Though given the conspicuous absence of the United States…

There are definitely some propagandistic overtones to it, but on the whole I enjoyed it. It’s definitely in the same “silly spectacle” category as Armageddon, or better yet The Day After Tomorrow, but the visuals and their scale are spectacular, and it’s as earnest, yet operatically overwrought, as the best Hong…

Well, obviously part of why he’s worthy is that he respects the fact it belongs to Thor, and it’s not a toy for Cap to play with.

The success of the Marvel movies has lead other studios to steal various comic concepts. Like the “What If?” issue...

I’m looking forward to a store-next-door that actually figures into the plot. We’ve had slight examples of that, what, maybe once or twice over the years?

Regular-Sized Rudy’s name makes perfect sense. Just look at him.

I remember MTV did a promotional tie-in when the movie came out, with Lemmy guest-veejaying and premiering the “Hellraiser” video. I believe Doug Bradley showed up too, with the proper air of disdain for the proceedings.

I’d bump 2 up a bit (there’s a definite grandeur about it, and a magnificent score), and slip in Hellraiser 3 at the bottom as “barely watchable”. I honestly enjoyed Doug Bradley and Terry Farrell’s screen rapport, and thought there were some good visual and conceptual bits, though also a lot of poorly conceived ones.…

I’m with you on a lot of your points in this thread, except that, by Hollywood standards, Hoult is probably a fairly passable 16.

Worse than that, it actually tracks closer to the ridiculous “Bond and Blofeld are brothers” revelation in Spectre.

Not technically, as in a court overseen one, but there would always be some outside consideration for dropping the suit.

Eleventh-hour settlements, either just before trial or just before verdict, aren’t at all uncommon in civil litigation. Given Kessler’s cordial statements, I’d guess he was simply bought off, if not with cash, then with some sort of business deal. Maybe tempered with some sort of threat about ever working in this town.

I believe it was also the way Molly Shannon’s Catholic school girl on Saturday Night Live ran.

15-year-old suburban white kid me played Willie Clark in a scene from The Sunshine Boys in high school drama class that was well-enough received that we were asked to perform it for the whole school. Of course, things were a bit less sensitive in the late-’70s, and my Jewish co-star thought my kvetching was great.

I think the organized crime of the era was distinct from youth gangs, disdaining them as petty, and possibly even being hostile to them — when a shop owner paid his “protection” to the mob, lower-level crime like youth gangs were one of the things he was actually being protected from.

The Bo Peep lamp was in that category from the original.

I think that really varies. Freshly dead bodies with water-filled lungs don’t float very well, though ones carrying lots of fat would do better. Armored bodies would do even worse. As decomposition sets in, bodies tend to float because they’re full of the gases that generates. I’d imagine the wights, not looking…

I think the magic of the Night King’s dragonflame immunity was literally skin-deep. Once you pierce his hide, dragon-forged things like Valyrian steel and dragonglass are still lethal.

“Why was the Iron Bank was so eager to loan to Cersei when her biggest threat was the daughter of the Mad King who possessed (at the time) three dragons?