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Modern day characters enter a cave or underground room and light up monster torches instead of using long lasting, and bright, lamps.

You might be seeing kids are not buying toys, as they prefer to play on their phones. Adults buying toys are very selective.

Pocahontas action figures never increased in value. Bottom line - buy an action figure because you like it, not for an investment,

That was in 'Waterloo'

A grand list of fantasy cliches: https://www.silverblade.net/cliches/

The original Enterprise, restored and now on display at the Smithsonian, has been well documented, including paint chip information. That is critical if one is building a studio model reproduction, but what we see on the screen is something else. TV and movie models were filmed under studio...

Cursing varies with the time period and background of the soldiers. In a way it's like tech-talk we have today, like with computer terms. Using cursing to be 'accurate' can ruin a story for viewers who had never been in that environment. The purpose of movie dialogue is to help define...

I got to see it debut in the theater. Walking out after it was over, I told my buddy, "It was okay, glad to see the characters again, but the next one has to be a lot better.

Yes, that's real world. You often find the words 'serial killer' in the tag line description of the movie when scrolling Netflix, etc. TV police shows also have an excess of serial killers as the bad guy. One person killing a lot of people, like in a Steven Segal movie, is indeed part of action...

It's never a KILLER... it's always a SERIAL KILLER.

I hope you realize, folks, the only hope we have for someone to salvage the Star Trek universe is the hushed concept of a Wesley Crusher series. It is so sad things have come to this, but on the bright side, Capt. Luc could be part of it.

... or drink enough vodka until it makes some sense. I think most of us who frequent RPF can recognize good story writing when we see it. ST Next Gen got off to a rough start, so hopefully Picard will also become shipshape. A lot of us are counting on it.

It's not the real Tom Cruise in the trailer. I saw a gray hair!