To quote Ron Burgundy: "Compelling and rich."

They aren't my favorite movies or anything, but I do quite enjoy them. The world, the characters, the general tone and atmosphere. I even enjoy the cheesy, generic, old school storylines. More than anything, though, I just appreciate the amount of effort they put into these things.

If ATWOW is any indication, then I do think they'll continue to get better as it goes on. The storytelling will likely improve, but I wonder if the special effects won't be as stunning if/when the franchise outlives James Cameron.

I love about 5 blocks away. Rittenhouse is a great place to go and it is surrounded by great restaurants. Also, Go Birds!

People are too brainwashed to be able to separate things from one another. It's quite sad.

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They had an extra challenge (part of the original plot involved a contagion which was understandably cut due to COVID), but agreed that a movie would have helped with pacing & filler issues.

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My favorite Hanks performance and that's saying something given his body of work.

One asshole can really ruin a name.

You’re the man now dawg

I have spoken.

Yea you're like my brother. Everytime he enjoys a horror movie he decides it's because it wasn't a bona fide horror movie. I think some of the movies you're talking about are undeniably horror movies though, even if they're something else too.

Spent my 40th birthday in the neighborhood last year, I love it so much. Monk's is easily one of my favorite bars on earth

aka Lightyear and The Light Years in the US.

Tiem for history lesson

1. Lots of counties had MiGs, the Soviets exported them.

2. The battle at the end of Top Gun is loosely inspired by a real life incident in 80s where American Tomcats engaged Libyan fighters.

3. An earlier draft of the script actually specified North Korean enemies.

4. The insignia on the enemy fighters is fictional.

5. Nobody at the end seems concerned at all that World War III may have just started.

Whoever they're fighting can be assumed to be a Soviet-aligned country, but it wasn't Big Red itself.

Wikipedia is an interesting item.

The free editing is a lesser problem compared to plagiarism (folks copying and pasting whole passages into wiki entries from other sites).

Because of this, there is a high rate of accuracy on Wikipedia as a whole: https://library.canisius.edu/wikipedia/accuracy but it should be used as a tertiary source rather than a primary or secondary one due to the plagiarism, etc. Wikipedia acknowledges a preference that it be used as a tertiary source rather than a primary or secondary one, too, for formal research purposes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academic_use. I think it’s awesome that the site editors take the time to discuss that. :)

Had one of the best brunches of my life at Parc just eating amazing French food and watching people and dogs walk by.

Who cares if he felt threatened? The little suburban high-school kid with an assault rifle felt scared in the city? Shocking. Fuck him and all the people supporting him. You are too stupid to talk to

The Sopranos did a pretty good job of it.

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Not making a statement, the name is just a turn off for me. Kinda like some people don’t like to wear red.

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This is sadly going to make film festivals even less relevant than they already are. Only screening stuff that won’t offend people is going to lead to boring movies that only a specific group of people want to see.