They’ve done jokes about Sessions having a prehensile tail, and had him bring out an actual opossum and call it his dad, so I’m guessing they’re going for “possum-like.”

My gut says that that was sort of a weird “transitive property of stereotypes” thing (a second cousin to a joke, if you will, but you probably shouldn’t). Like, there isn’t a stereotype of Irish people being inbred, but there is a stereotype of Ireland being mostly rural*, and a stereotype of rural folk being inbred.

If you’re curious about the context for that outfit, she’s working in a “game” where the users get to control real people as their avatars, and tell them what to wear and make them walk around various rooms and have sex with other real-person-avatars, basically like Second Life or The Sims by way of webcam porn.

Yeah, I figured Eugene’s plan was perfectly sound (since it could include zombie heads still perfectly capable of biting, and was clearly intended as more of a psychological attack than anything else, and may well have been intended to simply placate Negan and not be all that effective) but when they showed Negan’s…

I thought the explanation he gave in his opening monologue was perfectly reasonable.

Clearly the best part was McKinnon’s character correctly identifying the Wookiee language as Shyriiwook*. I’m going to assume Kate McKinnon is a Star Wars geek because I want that to be true, even though I have no reason to believe she wrote that line herself, and it’s perfectly likely whoever did just Googled “Chewie…

I thought Lillis looked so much like Adams while I was watching the movie that I just assumed Adams would play adult Bev -like, I figured they’d cast Lillis because they’d already signed Adams and needed someone who looked like a younger version of her - and was surprised afterward to find out they hadn’t even cast…

If we’re talking just on a thought exercise level? Sure.

One of the best criticisms I’ve seen of BvS is that it presents us with a Batman who has diverted from his baseline morality within the context of the movie itself, but doesn’t establish a baseline morality for him to have diverted from, relying on the viewer already knowing what Batman is supposed to be like because,…

Agreed. It felt like they were just having them improvise their flubs, assuming they’d come up with something funny because they’re funny people, but most people can’t intentionally babble incoherently. We all think we can just wing a load of gibberish on the fly, but nine times out of ten you end up just repeating…

I get what you’re saying, and sure it would have nice if we’d have heard something about the Paetorian Guard beforehand, to assure us that they were more than just regular schmoes in fancy armor, but it’s not like we got a lot of biographical information about Jabba’s skiff guards or the Stormtroopers that chased the…

I really wish that were true, and it’s a fine “just-squint-and-ignore-the-parts-that-don’t-add-up” rationalization, but it’s clearly not what was intended:

I assume the sequel to The Maize Runner is called The Starch Trials.

Have you ever seen the Saturday Night Live video “The Group Hopper”? It’s pretty much just what you described: a parody film trailer of a movie that’s just the Maze Runner with all the details swapped out for people broadly declaring what YA cliche they are.

On a related note, it always bugs me when people criticize Portman’s acting as Queen Amidala during the early scenes on Naboo in Phantom Menace for the simple reason that most of the time that isn’t Portman.

I always just took it as fact that the Force choke was the reason she died, and the “broken heart” was just the reason she didn’t cling to life. And even if one doesn’t believe that “will to live” can be a factor in overcoming an injury in the real world (though in my experience most doctors will tell you that it…

I saw a really good video discussing the movie that made an excellent point that speaks to this issue: Rey’s entire point in trying to get Luke to return was that he was needed as a symbol for the Resistance to rally behind. By sending a (notably younger-looking) projection of himself, he was able to confront Kylo Ren…

I was wise to make that part a parenthetical then. It will make it easier to edit it out for the special edition.

There is one significant difference: Kylo Ren doesn’t know Luke is dead (for that matter it’s possible no one knows Luke is dead, though the next movie is free to tell us that Rey and/or Leia sensed it). I’m not saying the next movie will do a whole lot with that, but off the top of my head I’m pretty sure that that’s…

I guarantee you that anyone who knows what “Legends” and “EU” mean with regards to Star Wars knows darn well that everything in “Legends” that hasn’t been explicitly contradicted by a canon work (like Han and Leia having a son named Jacen) is fair game for use in canon, and that any claims that all the weird, wild,…