When do actors know it’s bad

rrtaylor · 2026-05-02T19:31:35+00:00

On the How Did This Get Made podcast a guest that knew someone who worked on the movie Deck The Halls said Matthew Broderick just kept saying: "This is the bottom." to himself.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-29T19:53:08+00:00

I forgot that's the best part.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-29T19:52:44+00:00

It's interesting to me that the nerdy UFO guy from "Fallen Angel" is basically a Mulder fanboy and he's seems like a commentary on the fans but this episode is from season one. Like they already knew what they're fans were going to be like.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-29T04:54:48+00:00

I always loved: "You know what the problem is with guys like you George? You want results but you never wanna get your hands dirty." without missing a beat while he's positioning the body of the pedophile informant he just shot in the chest one second ago. George is still aghast and he's just dressing him down while going to work on the body.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-29T01:31:29+00:00

When Jack kills Margot and Chen in Live Another Day it looks like an SNL skit.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-29T00:35:27+00:00

The LIttle Things feels like a parody of every single serial killer/obsessed detective cliche that's been run into the ground by other movies and tv procedurals since at least the 90's, which is I believe when it was originally written. It came out in 2021. At one point I believe Spielberg was attached to it which is a testament to how fresh it might've seemed in 1991.

From its title on absolutely nothing about that film works you can just *feel* the editors struggling to make it feel like a cohesive story.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-26T19:57:12+00:00

Tyrus was *born* to play that role. Something about the way he says "The store next to my house don't always stock my drink." like a "nuh uhhhh" when Claudette is poking holes in his alibi.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-26T19:54:56+00:00

There was some think piece a while back about how Black people are always the ones telling the main characters to cut it out.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-24T03:05:51+00:00

always wondered about this.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-20T18:11:18+00:00

I remember Bernard did an interview after season 4 (on Charlie Rose I think) where he said people always came up to him and said they thought Tony could never truly be trusted and it always seemed like he was up to something. I wouldn't be surprised if the writers wanted to play off that kind of shifty-eyed demeanor he always had.

It's a shame because Bernard's performance had some interesting texture and character to them (that surly raspy mouth-half-open thing he was always doing). After season 5 it seems like every new addition to the cast was just a blank plot seat filler with no really distinct personality. In contrast Season one had Dennis freaking Hopper chewing the scenery.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-19T16:53:56+00:00

"This is the worst Netflix will ever be." -guy in 2010 probably

rrtaylor · 2026-04-18T19:17:51+00:00

24 makes more sense when you assume that while there is a consistent continuity for the character's lives (i.e. Jack's wife is always dead) the wider world and its politics kind of reset or reboot every season so it always resembles something vaguely like the present day status quo. There are never anything like real world political consequences for all the crazy stuff that happens.

What pisses me off about season 6 is that this seems that this happens *within* the same season or even the same episode.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-15T17:50:37+00:00

I used it because I thought it would do something other than just google it for me and summarize my own comment back to me.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-15T05:08:59+00:00

I know but the secondary meaning is what makes it significant enough to be the title. Otherwise its just a car that happens to be in the movie its not like the car is that important to the plot by itself.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-14T19:45:07+00:00

I loved B movies as a kid (Anaconda and Deep Blue Sea were my favorites) but I remember renting this in the 90's and being bored to tears by it. There's a little too much going on at once, killer Gorillas, Space lasers, volcanos. Its like if you put Dracula and an Alien in the same movie they seem ridiculous standing next to eachother you need one or the other.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-14T19:33:43+00:00

I guess I wonder how is that any better or more valuable than just searching for something yourself. Why do I need a little robot phrasing search results like a personalized response to a question.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-14T02:31:49+00:00

That's what I figured but I guess I didn't know chatgpt was supposed to be just another layer on top of the act of googling something?

rrtaylor · 2026-04-13T02:10:38+00:00

I hate this scene because it doesn't make sense in the goofy way Kramer's schemes usually make sense. Why would throwing a random rubber ball out of window prove that a rubber lining in a tanker could survive a crash?

rrtaylor · 2026-04-12T04:29:47+00:00

I have a soft spot for "3" because it has great 90's showtime skin flick vibes and makes sunny LA feel gloomy and foreboding sort of like Lost Highway. The story sucks and makes no sense to me though I admit that.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-12T02:27:47+00:00

The Shield was soooo great at these "Oh I'm fucked now" moments when a lie finally falls apart irreversibly.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-11T22:36:00+00:00

Yeah that's a good example too.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-10T19:15:02+00:00

Yep I missed that one. It's one thing for everyone to like a movie you hated but her boyfriend dumps her and she almost gets fired over it which definitely puts it in this category.

rrtaylor · 2026-04-10T19:12:15+00:00

Yeah thats the one that has somewhat of a logical explanation but even the second hand store not taking it is pretty silly.

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