Why the competition or filling the shoes of the past? It's a new era. Every decade has a bunch of new names drop onto the scene and rise in popularity. It has nothing to do with replacing actors. Inevitably, people get older so younger names get popular too.

Is MBJ playing a don in this movie?

As if rocky has never been the bad kind of melodramatic before......

Babylon

personally I feel the movie is a designed in a way to always keep the viewer engaged. it has very hyperactive editing and is very flashy (it kind of reminded me of requiem for a dream in that regard)

- but it definitely dragged in the end (I desperately wanted the film to end as soon as it cut to Manny with his new family). There were so many scenes in the last 15 minutes that would have wrapped the movie up perfectly but it kept going

felt kind of the same rewatching Rush Hour. I used to hold these movies up as a gold standard of comedy but watching them with a more critical lens, the jokes were insanely lazy. Im mainly talking about the second one. I hate the whole "you can't make it today" sentiment. comedy movies have gladly moved on from that form of comedy

theres other movies from around that era that are still really funny to me like Austin Powers so this isn't really a matter of comedy tastes changing

yeah I find pain and gain to be just like Moana and fast and furious 8

Sort of. There's so many That Guy actors.

I feel like after watching the sopranos I've become aware of so many other "that guy" actors who have many bit parts in movies from the 90s onwards

To me, David Leitch is what Joe Carnahan probably wants to be. In many ways Bullet Train is like Smokin Aces but with more bureaucracy

Copshop was pretty good. Much better than smokin aces (which was fine).

Stretch is certainly an interesting project