Steve Ahlman

going that he's up 500 million dollars right we don't get that he wants to become the secretary of defense himself the characters wound up and goes and we don't really know why and he's doing really heinous shit and there's really no explanation for it other than them's the way things are yeah we don't get any real explanation as to why coleman domingo is such a great guy

Like, other than... He saw the video.

He saw the video of the alien being tortured.

Okay.

Like, what's the deal?

And the reason why those questions kind of don't get asked is because the movie... Answered is because the movie is... There's too much going on.

Well, look, obviously I disagree.

And this, I'll give you two reasons why.

I am, I would, I would actually say, well, let me come back to that.

So obviously a movie based on a toy is going to be a nostalgia play.

Obviously it is.

Obviously a movie based on a toy.

Anytime they make a movie out of something that you loved as a kid, they are, all they really need to do in that movie is give you enough of a story for you to really come to terms with the fact that you went into that movie

to be back in 1985 again.

Now, hopefully you get filmmakers like Greta Gerwig who do incredibly fascinating, new, and daring things with those stories so that they're not just like harvesting your Saturday morning or your Wednesday afternoon.

You want people to be more.

But I think that this is different.

I think that this is different because

I don't really feel like there's a huge nostalgia situation in this.

The nostalgia situation would have been if they'd have brought Richard Dreyfuss back or if the fucking alien walks out and it's E.T.