“Multiplier effect” is a great way to describe it. And the phrase “exponentially worse” is something I never thought I’d say so many times to describe national and international events.

Also got David Lee Roth charmingly chuckling at his own ridiculous high note (“a-CRAWS! the rohohoom, yes it’s love in the third degree...”) on the first verse of Van Halen’s “Dance the Night Away”.

The movie “Wind River” from last year presented a fairly plausible display of this type of lawless isolation (complete with heavily-armed mercenaries). I think if the location was on a sprawling Indian reservation like Wind River, you could suspend your disbelief more strongly than in a random Montana town.

How the hell does Pollard remember any of his own songs? Let alone try to play them or get a band to learn them after they’re recorded?

Had a recent experience with a Pavement clone. Was in the gym and heard what sounded like some kinda Slanted b-side or something and I freaked out since I’d never heard it, but the 22 year old kid at the desk told me it was a band from Australia who are like, totally inspired by Pavement!

Have to point out that Killmonger’s ancestors were from Wakanda, which means that they were never colonized or enslaved and brought on slave ships, so his last lines wouldn’t be accurate for him personally.

Makes you wonder that if they didn’t have to dedicate a whole sub-plot to shoehorning in the “Cloverfield” universe to this movie, they could have expanded on the main plot conceit. It had big-time sci-fi potential: an “Event Horizon” combined with the underappreciated “Sunshine”.

And then when he tries it again later in a desperate attempt to recreate the magic but fails. Larry hilariously ruining his friends’ romantic lives while trying to help is just the best.

Dunkirk was incredibly well filmed and acted. The plot might’ve been a bit thin, I’ll grant you.

Still reeling from the implications of the last reveal of the Leftovers. Such amazing stuff.

Airplane is 100% the correct answer for #1.

Maybe he finds, like, a back-up hammer floating in space or something that survived Ragnarok?

They made him light-skinned a la Sammy Sosa!

It’s certainly NOT “shit” as you call it, but I am concerned how the movie will handle the “Astral Conflagration” aspects of the story. Will Hela, aka mistress death be involved somehow? I’m already afraid that Thanos’ tracking of the last stone will feel too same-y to Steppenwolf going after the mother boxes or…

My favorite scene with Hella was when she reveals the murals in the throne room. Kinda chilling scene.

That twist felt forced. RIP Gary Shandling, but c’mon, I remember his “Hail Hydra” whisper got laughs from the movie audience.

That’s a good observation. It makes you wonder at what point the producers and the story writers found themselves at this awkward narrative disconnect. If the story writers knew up front that the Hulk reveal was going to be advertised, perhaps the build-up scenes would have been changed to make room for different…

D.C. is better at El Salvadorean cuisine than Mexican food. Most of these places bill themselves as “Mexican food”, but typically are better at slinging papusas and yucca. 

NOOB NOOB/his dick gets more views than/YOU TUBE

Gorman was great as an irredeemably evil mutinying Night’s Watch member in Game of Thrones: the dude who kills Lord Commander Mormont.