This is a weird article. I’ve never heard anyone complain about self checkout. It’s way faster and more convenient.

I’ll counter that the truly dumb part of Prometheus is it did away with all the life cycle rules that were very well established in the mythology of the series, and turned the whole thing into a biological haunted house of horrors (“No, *this* can kill you too!!!”). That, and why did the Engineers leave a complicated…

I think he got quite a bit of recognition for Iron Man - he was revered for that role. Did he win awards? No, but you know going in that those roles aren’t award-contenders, and you satisfy yourself with the massive cultural influence and gigantic gobs of money. Did he deserve awards? I don’t know. Playing a rich…

Annie Potts was never marketed as an 80s mega babe, but she was extremely hot. Did they all just not notice, or was it because she wasn't in a bikini?

even gaining a personal office on their lot in Burbank.

...as we visit and are entertained for free by a website that is entirely supported by ads.

Ah, I thought this was a new version with new characters 20 years later. Maybe with a boozy Lindsey Lohan as one of the moms now. Which would be derivative, but make sense.

BSG did indeed start falling apart in the second half of season 3 (though the final 10 minutes of season 3 absolutely crushed). But the second half of S3 is when SciFi started requesting episodic standalone episodes so that new viewers wouldn’t have to go out and watch the whole thing, which is why there are random…

I have a friend for whom 23andMe is a client on the tech side, who told me straight up that you should NEVER use their services or any other similar.

In retrospect, the stories that came out a few years ago about his entire family hating him should have been a warning.

As is his wont, McAfee invited famed conspiracy theorist and Super Bowl champion Aaron Rodgers...

IMO, Skrein made a great, mysterious, weird Daario as compared to Huisman’s fairly bland look/take. I could see why Dany, who had every guy in the world throwing themselves at her, would go for Skrein’s Dario. Huisman on the other hand was just another guy. Not sure why they made the switch, but one would think it was…

Yeah, what makes the Central Valley stand out is not just that so many different things grow there, but that it grows the vast majority of the total output of those things for the country and the world.

Not even any mention of him in Shakespeare in Love, where he plays an absolutely fantastic role as a loan shark who falls in love with theater!

This was utterly predictable. As has been said all year (in the tech world at least), if your product is built on top of ChatGPT, you don’t have a product.

Agree. I’ll add that Heat is hokey as hell and massively overrated, though an entertaining film.

It also helps if the movies are visible. I’ve never heard of a lot of these - many of them seem to be films that would have been dumped direct to video or cable in the olden days, or in modern times would become “Netflix Originals”.

The zombie movie was a lot of fun, though it fell apart at the end. Snyder needs a couple of things:

That’s the look an oligarch makes when he learns his best friend has just fallen out of a window.

People seem to be taking these at face value. They’re not real/heavily staged. If for no other reason than no one’s PR team would allow them to get hammered in front of a camera, there are very strict laws about alcohol on set. The liability insurance you’d need to do this would be insane.