I saw this headline before I saw the movie, and the minute they explain “Thanos likes to kill 50% of everybody” I went “Oh okay now I know how this movie ends.... thanks io9"

The trick to Grape Nuts is knowing how to sweeten them up. I like to eat them with chocolate chips - the flavors complement each other really well.

Can confirm: I saw it in Montreal as well, theater burst out laughing at his first line. But I think it’s fitting, considering the comic character is famous for his terrible french accent.

Much like black people can call each other the n-word and no one cares, I’m not surprised that an Asian person wrote a book with this title, or that lots of Asians and Asian-Americans read it and liked it. As a white person, though, I can’t imagine myself recommending this movie to a friend, even with qualifications.…

It’s amazing to me that in this day and age famous artists can still be “ambiguously gay” but here we are. 

It’s a good idea, really - A Quiet Place would get the extra marketing push of an established “brand”, and Bad Robot gets to keep up its winning streak of quality (assuming they took this instead of Cloverfield Paradox). There’s no reason they would have had to change anything in the film itself. 

I’m partial to the Two Headed Boy -> The Fool -> Holland 1945 sequence. Three very different songs that somehow manage to be exactly the thing you want to hear next. The flow of that album is so well done. 

The irony is, rats make much better pets than hamsters. They actually bond with their owners and enjoy interacting with people. Hamsters just constantly try to escape, and they bite!

The cover art is really strong this time around, almost without exception. The Great God Pan, The Overstory, Dread Nation, Isle of Blood and Stone, even Space Opera - all really striking covers in a wide variety of styles.

I’ve gotten less obsessive about it recently, but for the last several years I’ve been following the box office - basically, what movies come out and how much money they all make. It’s surprisingly interesting! The irony is, of course, that I watch like two movies a year...

Most faith-based films are Evangelical, though. I was actually wondering from the review if this was a Catholic production - the apostles and early church get a lot more focus from Catholics, Evangelicals seem more interested in showing God taking action in modern day.

This sounds pretty interesting, actually. The petty squabbles of the early Christians are a big part of the New Testament and played a huge role in shaping Christianity. It’s neat that someone made a movie about that part of the story.

It’s pretty foolish of movie producers to think that an Oscar winner will make a good action star. This genre of movie lives or dies on its star’s charisma. Alicia Vikander might be a great actress, but she’s not charismatic. Angelina Jolie was better casting!

I was frustrated by it the first time, but I suspect I’ll like it more when I finally get around to a second viewing. I’ve never had such mixed feelings about a film - the things it does well are SO GOOD and the missteps it makes are SO BAD. I don’t even care that much about Star Wars and I still get infuriated by…

It’d be doable on a TV budget, too - not much need for CGI.

I feel like they’re underestimating how much of McDonald’s appeal  is their consistency. I don’t want my BigMac to taste better - I want it to taste exactly like every other BigMac I’ve eaten since I was 5. 

The sun’s great if you can get it.... I used to live in a semi-basement apartment, it never got bright enough to wake me up. Plus, I live in Canada and in winter the sun doesn’t come up here til 7:30.

The sun’s great if you can get it.... I used to live in a semi-basement apartment, it never got bright enough to…

Never thought I’d see a figure skater with facial hair. I don’t know why it’s surprising, since I don’t think I know a single clean-shaven guy anymore, but it’s still kind of jarring. 

“This is the first Winter Olympics in which single figure skaters can perform to music with lyrics”

One of the things I found most amusing in my brief stint of living in Japan, was their apparent conviction that all western foods should have corn on them. Salad? Always. Pizza? Sure, why not?