It probably should have been pointed out in the article that Doug Liman tends not to direct the action scenes in his films, but hands them over to an action unit.

Exactly! When this thread came up, I thought, "What about Battlefield 1?! Oh, wait — that wasn't a movie."

When I was in Mexico eons ago, I noticed that a LOT of people were drinking Dos Equis. Eventually I looked at the label more closely, and realized that it was actually TRES Equis — same label, but with three big red X's instead of two.

Ha! You tell 'im, Mel Smith! And I loved you in Brain Donors!

Yes! Thanks, Ham! Those ads were run before I became a subscriber in the mid-1990s I think, because I don't recall seeing them in any of my back issues.

What a fantastic venue. A relative of mine has curated some showings at the Lensic in recent years. I was in California by 1977, but had moved there from Albuquerque the year before. My mom eventually went back to Santa Fe for retirement.

Saw it in the theater. Like all big-budget VFX films of the era, the compositing was fine. It's just that the awful prints in circulation since the original release have mucked everything up. The further away your dupe is from the original master, the more apparent the compositing is.

I recall seeing an ad for a book written by the effects producer of Logan's Run. The title was humorous, and while I can't recall it exactly, an accurate paraphrase would be: Special Effects: The Spit and Bailing Wire Approach.

With TFA they were consciously trying to avoid any kind of nerd-rage, so they made it as close to the original film as possible. I disagree with that approach, but I understand it.

This one's easy: In summer 1977, my dad had an awesome girlfriend who lived in the Hollywood hills (we lived in doleful Orange County at the time). On Star Wars' opening weekend, she took my dad, my older sister, and me to a t-shirt shop on Hollywood Blvd, and bought Star Wars t-shirts for us. (This was the kind of…

Well I'm traumatized and deeply depressed about the prospect of Tyra Banks getting another national TV show. Can they name the entire viewing audience as injured parties?

Southern Californian here, and you're damn right I remember the Videopolis commercial jingle:

There was The Pally, if that one Kinks song is to be believed…

First line of dialogue I ever heard Jesse Eisenberg utter: "Why can't I disappear off the face of the Earth like Alicia Silverstone?"

Disqus borked itself, and I did not see this reply until now. Just out of curiosity, is this in Fair Oaks? (I'm too proud to Google Map it…) Because one neighborhood there was built over what used to be Phoenix Field, aka Fair Oaks Airport, and I know they did an aviation theme with the streets.

Part of my job is analyzing maps, and over the years I have discovered that Arthurian-themed neighborhoods are pretty popular in the USA. In my personal experience however, Robin Hood themes are the most prolific.

Man, I'm sorry I'm late to this conversation. Supercop is possibly my favorite action film of all time. But it is an action film, not just a martial-arts film. I think there were fewer/shorter fistfights in it because part of the running time was taken up by other types of action.

Everyone who is "meh" on Aimee Mann should check out the final Til Tuesday album, Everything's Different Now. This is an album of perfectly crafted pop songs, and one of the few albums where I can say there is not a bad or throwaway track on it.

So wait — is this the same woman who was the subject of "Bell Bottom Blues"?

John Sayles! And James Horner (not a filmmaker, but still…).