I'm not saying they have to be great. But they generally need to be at least be somewhat relatable and have charisma, and even having those qualities in real life doesn't necessarily translate to the screen.

I really wanted to enjoy Haywire, and some of the action sequences (the opening fight with Channing Tatum and the Fassbender hotel room brawl) were really well done, but it left me kind of cold. Part of that was Soderbergh's detached, austere approach, and part of it was Carano's lack of acting chops.

Bad move, Wachowskis. Live births have, at best, 30% of the unintentional comedy value of a hover-blading half-man / half wolf / half albino bounty hunter.

I can totally understand the annoyance with her character, but I thought it worked. She's clearly clinging to laws / rules / religion in an effort to cling to some semblance of her former life, and she sees Phil's embrace of the sheer freedom that goes hand-in-hand with a collapsed society as a terrifying affront to…

Indeed!

The key is going to be in how they pace it. Finn and Jake's relentless enthusiasm is often the catalyst for the episodes to be kind of frenetic, and the length of the episodes frees them a bit from the traditional three-act structure. All of which works great in short bursts but is going to be harder to pull off in a…

Do you have a complicated relationship with butter to this day?

I took a bunch of friends to see Coneheads for my 10th birthday. In retrospect that decision did not portend good things for the coming year.

Because movie studios like making money. I kinda feel like we need to just be happy with one sequel to a critically-loathed boxoffice bomb written by Jorma Taccone. Asking for two just seems greedy.

Can't we have both? Oh. Right. Probably not.

Great news. This calls for an upper-decker!

Even though there's no mention of The Misfits, I'm still going to hope that Glenn Danzig is the big-bad. Just like in real life.

There's no shame in loving MacGruber.

Bazgo!

Can't believe I never recognized Delancey. This kind of ruins that place for me—now I'm just going to be sad that Tom isn't around and cry into my pizza.

Pretty sure that's part of the joke. No matter how dark you try to make it, at the end of the day, it's still Power Rangers.

You could, but you'd be wrong about that too, since the Producer and Director have both openly stated that it is not meant to be taken at face-value. How successful they were in achieving their goal is up for debate, but they were clearly attempting to poke fun at the trend of "grim-and-gritty" reboots.

Rum Raisin? What is this, 1985?

That sounds fantastic. Going to a midnight movie or a screening of The Room—the sort of films that have already built a so-bad-it's-amazing reputation—is great and all, but it's a particularly magical feeling when a room of strangers without those same preconceptions tacitly agrees to just embrace the absurdity and…

I went to a fun, but slight, Louis Vuitton exhibition and a much less fun and even more slight Bernhard Willhelm exhibition, and my soccer team won our league championship, but the clear highlight of the weekend was getting baked with friends and seeing Jupiter Ascending.