Looks like Chthulu and Cobra Commander made a baby who hit the gym. 

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They gave a C+ to Infinity War.

Yet Eternals proves, maybe once and for all, that who’s behind the camera of these quality-controlled blockbusters may not matter so much.

Given how the “MCU is formulaic” talking point always rang kinda false to me, and how heavily the review leans on and labours it without actually expounding on it (besides the observation that this action movie has action scenes), I’m inclined to take this one with a heaping bowl of salt until I’ve seen the film for…

He’s so good in this it made it hard to take his detective in The Talented Mr Ripley seriously [I kept waiting for him to tell Matt Damon he’d “seen his type before: flashy, making the scene, flaunting convention”].

Are you sayin’ . . . you wanna piece’a me!?!?!

I couldn’t suspend my disbelief that Charlize Theron would be jealous of Stewart’s beauty.  Or anyone else’s beauty.

Frank Costanza is the perfect embodiment of that idea. He just continually gets louder and more aggressive and it's perfectly executed

One of Seinfeld’s great strengths was the fanatical commitment to absurd characters by its guest and recurring actors. Even when the characters had texture, they never flinched from pushing the performance to its limit.

She was pretty good in that Totino’s Pizza Roll film.

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Matthew Perry was great in everything he was a part of, whether it was in Aaron Sorkin’s nth masturbatory correct opinions showcase with Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, an especially duplicitous attorney on The Good Wife/Fight, a struggling widower on Goon, or as Oscar in the not horribly inspired remake of The Odd…

You make it sound like Cougar Town is coming out next week. It was on for six seasons. 

this just felt like a classy TV pilot. hate to say it, plus a bit boring. plus why was there no humour in a 2hr+ film?

Let’s not overlook another piece of the puzzle: Disney inherited this film from Fox Searchlight during the 2019 merger. And they don’t seem especially eager to support holdover projects.

It’s a macho battle flick with Jason Bourne and Kylo Ren and Batman and swords and armor and mud and it’s also a Rashomon-style investigation of a seven-hundred-year-old rape trial and also it doesn’t listen to the woman until the final third and also it’s filmed in that miserable, washed-out, essentially-monochrome…

I already got my copy of Dune off the Internet.

There was one element to me that didn’t quite work, partly due to the format, and that was the Emperor’s plan.

I mean, the first book still made it clear that the savior myth was cynically planted by missionaries to suit their own purposes, and that the “savior” himself knew this when he cynically exploited it to gain support for his mission of vengeance, but sure.