Hot take: Spectre is a perfectly fine Bond film and I'm looking forward to Bond 25.
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There's a reason that you can see the blood drain from Benjamin and Elaine's faces at the end of The Graduate. That's the piece that most romcoms miss these days (and that 500 Days of Summer leans heavily into).
True - that's definitely a movie that I thought was super deep for like three months when I was 19. Turns out the characters are all just annoying.
Braff and Portman in Garden State jump out at me. They've got like a week before they're at each other's throats.
He is literally too stupid to insult.
The Very Best of Daryl Hall/John Oates (note: they aren't actually known as Hall and Oates). This happens to me once every six months or so - I get on a kick and listen to these guys nonstop for a week or two. Really great songwriting and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise.
Based on the rumor that Ron Howard is taking over, I'm still cautiously optimistic about this movie.
There almost certainly won't be a directors cut on a movie where the directors "quit" during production.
I hated Genesys less than Salvation, mostly because Salvation kind of tried to be important, which made the whole thing kind of insufferable. Genesys was little more than robots chasing humans, which is really all I want from these movies.
I think it's more that 99% of dudes named Travis are complete sociopaths.
The finale kind of exposed a lot of other issues with the writing on that show - mainly it's treatment of the one off female characters. I get that we're seeing the story through the lens of an unreliable narrator, but there are a lot of jokes that boil down to women being stupid enough to fall for Barney's bullshit.
It didn't help that the writers built the ending up for YEARS ahead of time. The fact that the finale had been written during season 1 or 2 and that's what they went with was a little like Sam Smith bragging that he wrote the theme to Spectre in 20 minutes and recorded it in one take.
I'm with you. I still laugh when I think about individual moments and jokes, but the shine is totally gone on the show for me. I haven't rewatched any of it since the finale. In addition to the narrative problems - setting 22 episodes of the final season in one weekend (and in kind of a half-assed way) then having a…
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In addition to being hypersensitive. Someone in the comments once noted that all Trump's criticisms about others are really about himself. Same seems to be true of his boob of a son.
It will just be a 55 minute cover of Daybreak.
Die Another Day suffers from a lot of problems. One of them is the way they tried to shove a reference to every prior Bond film into the script. The story became secondary to the in jokes. Also, besides the Iron Man suit, Graves had a satellite that could turn the sun's rays into a laser. That is completely absurd.
It gets just about everything about Bond wrong. The sword fight and Cuba stuff is ok, the rest of the film is just a huge mess. I like my Bond films really good or really bad (i.e. Moonraker), but this one is in it's own class of awfulness. It's unwatchable.
The sword fight is really great, but everything after that scene is an abomination. Worth noting that Bond has the ability to stop his own heart in that movie, the villain had a non surgical procedure that changed him from Korean to British, and has an Iron Man suit that controls a satellite which turns power from the…