I don't think it's outright bad, several parts of it are even great, but it's tonally wonky and starts to fall back into a lot of the haphazard writing that the Craig movies had mostly avoided up to that point; logic and tightness thrown out the window to transport characters from one increasingly silly set piece to…

I'm honestly quite surprised to see how well it's been reviewed so far. Looking forward to the commentariat's take.

Spectre does look quite good, van Hoytema shot it with a weird grainy brown-ish look that works quite well, but there are also some obvious re-shoots that drags the visual quality down.

Saw Spectre and boy… I had my fair share of troubles with Skyfall, but this made that movie look like Bicycle Thieves. It's not bad in a Batman & Robin-way, just utterly bereft of anything resembling inspiration. Will probably write about it more thoroughly when it reaches US theatres, but this will have to do for the…

Boo.

I dropped out halfway through season 1, but one of the stronger aspects of the show back then was the Jason Isaacs-voiced bad guy. Did they kill him off?

I think he's great in Watchmen as well. His performance and physicality in that movie is one of the few components of it that embodies the basic "Superheroes, but in the real world" concept that the original story is built on.

The 90's Tintin cartoon adaptation of The Cigars of the Pharao has a scene which horrified me as a child. Tintin explores an Egyptian tomb, stumbles upon mummified versions of various missing egyptologists, and then suddenly finds empty sarcophaguses with his and Milou's pictures on them! He tries to get the hell out…

I say we give that weird but compelling animation on top of actors-technique from the Tintin movie which everyone seem to have forgotten about another shot. Motion-capture Ford's face, straight out a few wrinkles digitally… It's unprogressive as hell, but would solve a lot of logistical issues concerning a 73 year old…

I guess I can see why they wouldn't want to go back to the Nazi bad guy well again, but one or several Nazi expats hiding in South America is such a self-writing no brainer that they really should have done it anyway. They also should have scrapped all the 50's youth culture stuff, that was such a horrible clash with…

I watched A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back this weekend, and those movies contained a lot more casual racism against wookies than I remembered. Human and robot characters are pretty much taking turns calling Chewbacca "furball", "stupid rug" and racially charged shit like that.

That one's a real bitch to pull off properly. Did Mayhew do it unassisted in the movies, or was it some kind of post production sound design thing?

I really enjoy reading these posts on a weekly basis, although our taste in Bond movies is certainly very different!

…and someone being something up to the eyeballs.

About the bullets: I see. About the heat: I'm more concerned with the heat coming from the recently fired bullet (knowing what a recently spent shell casing feels like, so I'm assuming the bullet is burning hot as well) when he's holding it in his bare hands. I guess he could be moving so fast that his nerve endings…

Not fan of speedsters catching bullets with their bare hands (even ignoring the bullet's momentum, wouldn't they be burning hot?) or conveniently forgetting they are speedsters when bad guys threaten them or others with relatively slow ass guns or buttons. But other than that, this was another solid episode. So far in…

It's probably the most ridiculed current TV show among the AV Club commentariat. Make of that what you will.

It's a good think I Keep Mine Hidden.

Does it hold up though? I certainly have fond memories of it, but I'd guess that a lot of stuff from that era (including the aforementioned Tailspin) is probably fairly unwatchable for anyone above the age of 11 today.

…nah.