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The Narrator Returns
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It's hard to do anything as bad than Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who doesn't even look particularly convincing breathing oxygen.

Have you seen her in Vicky Cristina Barcelona? That's what got me to really pay attention to her, and it only set me up for disappointment seemingly whenever she's in a movie nowadays.

I will go down as one of the few people who genuinely really likes Alien Resurrection. It's such a weird mishmash, but it just kinda hits the sweet spot for me. Plus, it has some gorgeous Darius Khondji cinematography and a scene where Ron Perlman shoots a spider at point-blank range.

Maybe it's not the best strategy to act like these people are so sinister and shadowy that they might as well work for the goddamn Parallax Corporation.

I bring this up whenever I can; Iron Man 3 is by far my favorite Marvel movie. It has everything I want in a movie; Robert Downey Jr. being a dick to small children, Ben Kingsley as a soccer hooligan, cameos by Happy Endings cast members, genuinely funny quips, and a liberal dose of Black's favored buddy-comedy

For the last time, I'm only following you because I'm the creature from It Follows.

Joy: This feels like an experimental film as directed by Garry Marshall, with 20 minutes of good material and 100 minutes of broad, loud, barely-comprehensible nonsense that feels like it's held together with staples and Elmer's glue. For more rants on the subject, please consult my Letterboxd review.

I love Young Adult, so here's hoping this is a return-to-form for Reitman and Cody and not yet more diminishing returns.

And you just know he was wearing this at the time.

OHHH WAIT, DOUBLE-FUCKING-NEWSFLASH, NOBODY'S GONNA WANNA HANG OUT WITH YOU IF YOUR GUM FUCKING *SUCKS*!!!!!

Given that del Toro has made maybe one movie in his career that completely made its money back, and yet can easily get a movie made, he might even be the luckiest man in show business.

Given del Toro's love of terrifying, slightly over-the-top human villainy surrounded by fantastical elements, I'm honestly surprised that it's taken this long for him to work with Shannon (if remaking Pan's Labyrinth in English wasn't a crime worthy of immediate execution, he would make a killer Captain Vidal).

I hope somebody in your audience went "Double-yew tee eff!" when Martin Freeman showed up.

Okay, that sounds good. Also, I've gone from completely not caring about this movie to probably seeing it, so thanks to you nice folks if I like it.

Anyone who's seen Civil War; does it at least look better than Ultron (I'm not looking for Sicario-level beauty here)? I was really disappointed by how Ultron looked like colorless mush.

Chan-fried Po-Taters better make that movie that was supposedly going to get Soderbergh out of retirement before Male Ghostbusters.

For me, the best parts of the movie were anything with James Spader. The second-best parts were Vision and the aforementioned Thor's hammer scene. The rest is a low-contrast, poorly-saturated blur for me.

Does Apocalypse join in? Because there's no goddamn way the team without Oscar Isaac would win in a dance-off against one with him.

It's got that Matthew Libatique and Sam Rockwell magic!

I don't think you need to worry too much about it underperforming, it topped $25 million in Thursday showings alone and has the advantage of being good.