Hey, who are you calling ‘fading’?

Well a bunch of points in response:

Problem is, usually the earliest reviews that come out are the most positive ones. Plus, if you read even the positive ones that are out right now, they have huge caveats that would give me pause to actually go and see it. You may well be right, but I’d bet good money that 75% is as high as it goes (and that it likely…

Phillip Baker Hall is one of those character actors who brings up the quality of every scene he’s in. Special shout out to his hilarious variation on angry police captain in the first Rush Hour. 

Early reactions say...no, definitely not. Apparently the trailers didn’t lie...

Never played the games, but as a movie it actually looks like a lot of fun, mostly by nature of having an Indiana Jones type who is the opposite of worldly and cynical. Fresh-faced, naive Tom Holland bumbling his way through jungle setpieces sounds kind of great if a bit stupid. 

It’s odd to hear these discussed as a trilogy akin to the Raimi ones. It feels like the Holland films don’t really build on eachother at all making a third finale an appealing prospect. I remember at the time the anticipation (and eventual disappointment) of Spider Man 3, Dark Knight Rises, and X-Men The Last Stand.…

A few points:

I was recently watching Samurai Jack and Primal on Cartoon Network and realizing how piss-poor most animation looks by comparison. It really is a shame more craft isn’t put into it more often.

See Gadot falls into the category of likely not meant to be an actor if it wasn’t for her looks. I think she’s fine but nothing special (and often fairly dull and stilted in her delivery).

Sort of funny that the female agent who people would like to see in a spinoff isn’t the one set up to have a spinoff. 

Ana De Armas is a treasure.

Hey, it’s actually exactly what the trailer promised! That’s...disappointing. 

In an alternate world, I’d like to have seen a series of more sleek, thoughtful, psychologically charged follow-ups to Casino Royale that follows Bond from cynical young agent to bitter old man. That film promised a franchise that might finally escape from the iron clad laws of its own franchise, but ultimately never…

...hey, this isn’t a trailer for Upload season two...

I realize the time has passed, but I would have at some point liked to read the rest of Afterlife with Archie.

Indeed. It made me sad how many scenes were undermined by the black humor and awful gore instead of elevated. Case in point, killing the village. 

I also thought it was very poor. Awful might be overstating it, but I think it had problems so fundamental to its structure that I can’t imagine thinking it was a good film. 

I hope so! I just assumed they were supposed to be legitimate audience surrogates of some sort. 

None of the non Cena people are funny here but the line ‘you guys ordered without me?’ is a pretty great joke.