The fact that the “explosions” in Akira are not caused by nuclear bombs has little to do with the theme of Japanese cities being destroyed by cataclysmic events and their effect on Japanese history. We (the USA) nuked two and firebombed many more Japanese cities off the map. That had a huge effect on Japanese history,…
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Are there no 27ish actors available? Or does Hollywood’s “actor-actress age offest rule” mean they’d have to cast a 8-year-old as Fay?
Are there no 27ish actors available? Or does Hollywood’s “actor-actress age offset rule” mean they’d have to cast a 8-year-old as Fay?
I just realized that Vin Diesel is perfect for Jet.
I just realized that Vin Diesel is perfect for Jet.
Also, pretty sure Spike’s being a “white Jew” isn’t canon. I always assumed he was multi-ethnic since he had a Jewish last name and was a high-ranking Triad enforcer on Mars.
Because Keanu is about 25 years too old to play Spike?
It wasn’t about them, but it was about the post WWII world they were growing up in. It’s a very specific mix of “we can do anything” optimism and “but at what cost” paranoia that had a huge effect on the boomers psyche. I’m a tale-end boomer (a year or two too old for Gen-X). Even the early boomers are radically differ…
I always though the idea of the townsfolk all flipping out and killing each other over vague paranoia was over-blown and unrealistic. Then I got a Twitter account.
NPR was pretty savage in their non-confrontational ever-comfortable way.
Yes, things that were living memory when I was a kid (in the late 60s) are as remote to millennials as the horse and buggy was to me. My dad saw society go from literal horse and buggy days to men standing on the moon. Imagine what that was like. The Twlight Zone had a very boomer-centric asthetic. Schamltzy, horrifi…
Fair enough, but he did make a lot of more “serious” films like “The Sand Pebbles”, “Junior Bonner” and “Papillon”.
Riff Raff was in Men in Black? Dude isn’t looking very well.
He hasn’t put himself through the rolling around in ice water whilst emoting ringer enough. Maybe he doesn’t care.
The same goes for Steve McQueen, one of the greatest movie stars of all time. Most of his films are dramas and not action films.
I’ve seen obscure comments before but that’s downright esoteric! Upvoted!
In the CIA, intelligence officers are CIA employees and have officer’s rank just like a captain in the army. Agents are assets or sources, usually from foreign entities.
Tony offers Carol a Iron Man suit. Carol (smirking) “Seriously?”
Even Kryptonians can only have so much stamina.
How much do you want to bet that secret bases have cats? Every industrial plant I’ve worked in including paper mills and power plants had cats. They’re highly useful for keeping rodents under control and nice to have around. Although accidentally scaring one out of a cubby hole at 2AM in the dimly lit sub-basement of…