who wants to hear, let alone look at, these losers though? 

...fremen

unfortunately Ava Duvernay is more of a name at this point than a talent. She shit the bed with A Wrinkle in Time. She has no skills. 

where is all that pokemon money going? certainly not into their game development. 

it’s too bad that, as an actual work of storytelling and cinematic technique, it’s a sloppy mess. regardless of how well-meaning it may be. 

i understand what you mean. the way NTTD ends means that these stories are basically Mathilde’s “head-canon” of Bond’s life, hahaha.

...right, because having a bunch of tiny broken robots floating around in your blood is a healthy good time.

i’m guessing danny boyle left because he wasn’t allowed to turn the film into a formalistic narrative experiment, a la every other film he’s made lately. the studio wanted to end the craig run with a crowd-pleaser, whereas danny boyle often fancies himself something of a cold-blooded intellectual, rightfully or not.…

i thought they actually managed to make madeleine swann work in this film while retroactively improving her involvement in spectre. kind of a miracle. and i was grateful for it, because lea seydoux and craig are both tremendous talents whose talent was totally squandered in spectre. 

naw, NTTD was fucking fantastic. nearly as good as Casino Royale. and it while it did make deliberate echoes to pre-Craig Bond films, it did things, narratively and thematically-speaking, that could only be considered to be in-continuity with the Craig films. i thought the villain was fine, too. Bond felt like the…

the only reason they took a chance on bringing madeleine swann back, and gave bond a daughter, was because they knew they were killing him off and would never have to follow up on that particular thread ever again. the next bond will be a total reboot. 

i thought it was also pretty clear that he was bleeding out from his gunshot wounds. he was within a minute of passing out from blood loss. 

good god dude, dial it down a notch. the game is solid, just not a classic. hyperbole is difficult to take seriously.

shadow trades-off a compelling campaign for having actually compelling side quests. many of the side quests are just as good, if not better, than the puzzles you’d find in the classic tomb raider games, and i like the metroidvania style of the open world, which is not even really obvious unless you choose to dig into…

they should’ve kept Sam in play as a character. the scope of the games’ narrative narrowed too much in Rise and Shadow. i didn’t need the full ensemble of the first game, which felt overstuffed at times, but the Lara and Jonah dynamic got a little claustrophobic.

the body count for this movie is going to be INSANE

i thought it was pretty great. spectacular looking. it certainly holds up vs mcu.

in canada it’s illegal to enter a theatre without proof of vaccination, so...

the incredibles is tiresomely busy. but the same goes for most of that director’s work. i zone out rewatching it.

those films weren’t theatrically screened in china for political reasons. nothing to do with michelle yeoh.