Thoughts and Prayers!

They had me right up until the firestorm blowing up the cardboard tank — that was Wakaliwood levels of cheesy!

How many action coordinators can say they’ve got Oscars?

Good point, Nilus — and who can blame him?

Yes, Kirk as Skirt-Chaser is highly exaggerated, and largely comes from writers who really don’t know the character at all —

Not necessarily, which is what I love about these bagels.

Yes, this!

Okay, decgeek — that wins the Internet today!

Maybe Jeff Goldblum will show up to inject a computer virus into their systems?

There is only one response to that, EdKed...

And don’t forget Donald Sutherland to deliver the utterly batshit premise of the movie in a reasoned, soft voice so we believe that, for at least the run time, it’s all real....

No, I’ve had doughnuts that were from bakeries — most of them tasted cake-y even if they were raised doughnuts, or had no discernible flavor other than “oily”. I keep hearing about these great doughnut places in Seattle or San Francisco, but I’ve yet to find one.

Yes, to all of this, Young person yelling at clouds.

Mainly the movies and the Kelvinverse reboot, alurin. Yes, Kirk was sometimes a bit of a cowboy and maybe a skirt-chaser, but nowhere near like his cultural footprint claims he is, or like the “Space, the Final Frontier” he was dealing with required him to occasionally be.

I think Beckett Mariner is supposed to challenge that entire “James T. Kirk/Han Solo/Poe Dameron Lovable Rogue” type by showing what they’d really be like to work with. She definitely comes off as a brat sometimes, especially when dealing with her Commanding Officer Mom (my biggest issue there is “Wait — Starfleet’s…

Speaking of “can’t believe they’re the same species”....

I really hope so -- though I worry that they’re going to make Ariel all mopey now after a couple decades in our world.

Do you remember the Stephen King series KINGDOM HOSPITAL? That was his Americanization of Lars Von Trier’s Danish/Swedish television series THE KINGDOM, about a haunted hospital built over former “bleaching ponds” in Copenhagen. I saw both THE KINGDOM and THE KINGDOM II, and I’m sure that’s got to have been one of…

Lots of documentaries and docudramas, a Clifford the Big Red Dog movie with a generic IP adaptation supervillain (who thankfully we don’t see at all in the trailer, which is kind of adorable — but we do see John Cleese which is...problematic these days), a Sir Chuckles Branagh Oscar-Bait movie, an EggsBenedict EnglishM…

Annndddd... One again, AppleTV+ affirms that it’s “Dad TV”, buying another Tom Hanks slow-moving “action” film that’s really a character piece with a few mild action scenes.