I’ll meet you halfway and agree the CGI was bad, along with some of the fight scenes. But I think it’s a strength of the movie that it was able to overcome those shortcomings by just telling a pretty good, effective drama. You care about these characters, and you actually care about the villain. That’s way more than…

Well, then how do you feel about a version of Superman that destroys an entire city and snaps a dudes neck? How do you feel about a version of Batman that mows down criminals with a machine gun? You don’t want to see realistic depictions of violence or mental illness from characters like Wolverine or Professor X, so…

I think the iconography is part of the problem with these characters.  I’m sure many people have a fond, nostalgic affection for these characters, but I doubt this feeling is attached to any specific narrative.  Put them in something like a story and they fall apart, I mean, unless you know how to tell a good story…

I love FLCL for it’s tone. Despite all it’s craziness and surreal imagery, the show had a great feel for the banal and everyday, small town existence. The music especially gave it this very warm vibe that kept it from ever getting too dark, like a Hirokazu Koreeda or Richard Linklater movie, but with robots and…

Dayum!

Well, whatever happens, I’m sure it’ll be unpredictable. Boy, I can’t wait for that highly unpredictable thing to happen.

As much as I enjoyed the interactions between Simon and Dwight this week, it made me wonder if theres ever been anything like a stable, status quo among the saviours. Are they always this paranoid, condescending and suspicious of each other? I really can’t read Negan’s reaction to Dwight’s excuse, for example, because…

Probably lean way back at him and say something along the lines of “sheee-it” and then chuckle ruefully.

My pessimistic, though highly likely, thought is that these new characters just present another community for Rick to destroy once he’s done with the saviours.

Its always been annoying, and the show has never really tried to resolve it (has there ever been at least a quick scene where two characters talk about the mechanics of the infection, try to figure out how it works?). Up till now only a walker bite can cause one to turn, and supposedly everyone is already infected, so…

Is that Jeff from American Dad?

Ah yes, I’ll never forget that day, standing in line to buy some tickets, sitting down to watch the movie, then watching the movie, then afterwards saying “that was pretty good, right?” and then my friend replying “yeah it was pretty good”. Ah memories!

Yes, we need to show the man who directed the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnasus the respect he deserves!

Well I dont like it. It sounds like an allergy medication.

ANYTHING...*puts on blu-ray of The Secret Life of Pets*

I’ll watch anything with a Basset Hound in it.  ANYTHING.

Well, yeah, making these things less common and deadly is kind of the point.  Nobody thinks passing gun laws will prevent mass shootings from ever happening again, but they’re still worth passing.  It’s like saying we should remove all traffic lights because they haven’t stopped all car related deaths from happening.

That’s terrible, but not surprising at all.  JoJo is great, but it’s also incredibly off-putting.

Oh...well its not good.

Oh for sure, there are plenty of worse animes. But its so mediocre and derivative on every level, I have to wonder why Toonami even picked it up.