She did make a profit. It wasn’t officially “sold”, but the Bavarian and Texan museums negotiated a “finder’s fee” for her in exchange for the object being “donated” to them.

Italians don’t own everything made by Romans - should we transport the Pont du Garde to Italy too? If we’re doing that, should we take all American colonial-era buildings and artifacts back to Britain, since they were made by ‘our ancestors’?

Which was then mostly just written as an initial, as they went by their second names outside of their families... which weren’t even family names, but tribe names. If you were really lucky and aristocratic you might have a third name, which was a family name.

The fact they obviously had to CGI the whole of Europe?

Exactly. They were probably told not to talk to her, but even if they weren’t, the combination of awkwardness and fear of retaliation would make them want to keep their distance.

I think the other difference is more important: Kim is an actual character, whereas Skyler was a two-dimensional plot device whose only job (except perhaps in the final season) was to be annoying and act as a tool for the writers to derail Walt’s plotline whenever dramatically convenient.

I would think of it like this: if you weren’t lucky being born where and when you were born... when and where WOULD it have been lucky to have been born? When and where is a better place to live than (middle-class) America in 2022?

The scenes where he kills a minion in a gruesome and over-the-top Bondian way, and then the film switches into super-sincere scenes of the minion’s home life and the family hearing the tragic news and having their lives destroyed by it.

Yes, of course. But Langella may not be the actor to hire for either kind of choreography!

Kudos to the reviewer, though, who was presumably writing this on a dare: “I bet you can’t find a way to say ‘this show should have given its women less agency, and focused more on the tangentally-related story of the male side-character’ and make it sound like you’re saying it because of feminism.” I mean, she didn’t…

It’s bad enough that that whole place is trashy and tasteless, but could he not afford a proper artist for the ceiling? That fresco looks like a bad cartoon!

When someone said “let’s make this race the Monaco of North America!”, I think the course designers really took the wrong message from that.

Thank you, this has been pissing me off every time I’ve seen this title. I know it’s petty, but... urgh. Hopefully there’s some explanation in the film itself, and it’s not just “people cared so little about a film that it was released with an obvious typo in the title”.

The original Austin Powers is genuinely really good, including his performances. [the sequels are lazy]

The only people I know who have seen it said it was OK, but not as good as the original. [it’s kind of weird the review doesn’t make any comparisons directly, given how well known the original is]

Strategically, it’s usually because having someone run costs money (assuming there’s any campaign at all, and if there isn’t there’s not much point putting their name on the ballot), and the parties would rather spend that money on a competitive seat.

I mean you joke, but I’m pretty sure there were films where this happened back in the 70s...

“if they are able to make [a fight scene] look fluid and spontaneous, why should it be different with a love scene” - well, I agree, but that’s a big “if”. Not every actor CAN make a fight scene look fluid and spontaneous - there are great actors who would probably not be great in a kung fu film. Acting isn’t just one…

It’s not even remotely true! The history of F1 is the history of teams giving zero fucks about the safety of their drivers. Just look at Lotus’s recurring cycle: “oh wow, our driver is amazingly talented! What’s that, build a car that won’t fall apart in a slight breeze? No no, it’s much cheaper and faster to build a…

Except that “it’s up to the drivers to decide what risk they are willing to take” has been the slogan to oppose every safety improvement in this and every other sport.