Nah. It seemed cool in the book (also a fun lift from Aliens), but in the movie it felt, like just about everything in DH Part 2, pretty anticlimactic. The whole movie just feels like checking off boxes. Part 1 is a much better movie.

Great stuff. Exactly the ranking I'd have gone with. Azkaban has always been a little overpraised in my book - definitely a visual upgrade from the first two films, but not the masterpiece some have indicated. Goblet is the best book in the series IMO and also the best movie, as it's really the Empire Strikes Back of…

The first thing I thought of as I was processing my shock and horror at the election results was the opening of Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. Not because it reminded me of humanity's goodness (as a person of faith, I don't believe in our inherent goodness), but because it reminded me that there are things…

I've never heard a theater as quiet as when that gunshot went off. Just one of those perfect movie scenes that also happens to be a technical marvel.

Yeah, Workin on a Dream is straight-up awful. Tried to listen to it again a couple of years back and had to quit halfway through. It was released soon after Obama got elected, and Magic was released during the heydey of the Bush years. To quote my brother, "Bruce is better when he's angry."

I generally consider Devil's Arcade the album closer as Terry's Song is basically a bonus track, but yeah, they're both terrific songs.

Yes. His best post-2000 album as far as I'm concerned. Some great, unheralded tracks on there, including the title track and "Last to Die." And yeah, "Devil's Arcade" is a phenomenal closer.

I may be the only one that thinks this, but as someone who would never actually intentionally watch it (my wife was all about it), I didn't find Fuller House to be completely terrible - in fact, it was actually sort-of-not-bad at times. The worst thing about it was the attempt to shoehorn in references to the old…

It always struck me as somewhat odd that people who were self-professed film or theater nerds weren't into sports. I get that many weren't particularly good at them and that much of this is likely due to some pent-up jock resentment (stereotyping, but not without cause), but more than anything, sports can be amazing…

Thought of this exact scene.

Three funniest movies of all-time IMO:

Yeah, weird is the right word. I particularly like the plot description on the Wikipedia page, just for how f'ing batshit it sounds.

Yep, end of this season. Long shot, I know, but I think it works thematically. The Lannister family is pretty much done (when Tommen goes, that is), and since her only purpose at this point seems to be revenge, well, we know how that goes for people in the GoT world (see also: Robb/Catelyn Stark). It'll be a shock,…

I think if Tommen dies then Cersei kills herself. All her children are dead, so there's nothing left for her. Either way, I think she's toast soon.

I'm pretty sure Tormund is gonna get killed during the Battle of the Bastards (probably at the hand of Ramsey, right before Jon kills him). Osha is probably getting flayed pretty soon (either this week or next), but I don't think Rickon will die. Tommen HAS to die at some point (the series won't end with him on the…

Also, I don't despise it, but the Battlestar Galactica reboot is hugely overpraised.

This times a million.

Big fat Yes to The Dark Knight. The best comic book movie of the 2000s by far, if by "best" you mean "most bloated, pretentious, poorly plotted piece of drivel made by a filmmaker who's clearly high on his own hype." The whole Nolan trilogy is already aging horribly (The Dark Knight Rises was always shit). Give me…

FFIX was one of my favorite "holy shit" moments as a gamer back in the day. FFVIII had been a relative disappointment (so…much…drawing…) and Ocarina of Time was THE game to get that holiday season but pretty much impossible to find in stores, so getting FFIX for Christmas felt like settling for something that, at…

This sounds great and righteous and all, but all it'll accomplish is putting a lot of blue-collar people out of work (as runaway production did in North Carolina back in the late '90s). If they really wanted to make an impact on the legislation, they'd threaten not to distribute their films in Georgia and/or air their…