Read me, Doctor Memory?

My god, I have probably seen the trailer for this piece of garbage at least 30 times in the last year (did it get pushed back?) in the course of executing my parental duties and yet somehow I still didn’t twig to the fact that it was, somehow, a sequel. We truly live in the darkest timeline.

Counterpoint: my kid nearly driving me insane by playing “Wall-E” on her iPad multiple times per week for about a year. And her school (urban, public, the furthest thing from hoity-toity) luuuuuurved Inside Out when they played it for movie night.

(Also, this movie does not get proper respect for how ridiculously quotable it is. “A LOT OF TAPE AND A LITTLE PATIENCE MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE!” Has Danny DiVito done a Random Roles yet?)

Angsty 17 year old you was 100% correct.

Strongly agreed. I loved Homecoming for similar reasons: the Vulture wasn’t a universe- or even city-threatening megalomaniac. In fact he wasn’t any kind of maniac at all! He was a smart man with some legit gripes about how he and his crew had been fucked over by an impersonal bureaucracy, and an entirely reasonable…

Lacked suspense and moreover the “impossible” climb out was like a 5.9 at worst. Handholds and footholds everywhere! Ledges to rest on! I’m a completely shit climber and I could knock that out in an hour.

As someone who thought this film was substantially better than it was generally given credit for at the time — and a significant improvement on the essentially turgid 89 “Batman” — it’s been awesome to see critical opinion finally come around on it. It’s a deeply strange and personal take on a character somehow done…

I’m 99.99% sure that it didn’t but full disclosure I haven’t actually seen the film in like a decade.

Willis, interestingly, managed to escape mostly unscathed from a somewhat stylistically similar bomb: 1994's “Color of Night”, which also featured a fleeting glimpse of Willis Wang.

moniker “so bad it’s good” gets copiously applied

Netflix could redeem themselves, forever, for the endless hours of boring ninja bullshit with a 12-episode NEXTWAVE series.

ALLOW IT

Honestly if he just kept recording educational videos for use in future spider-man (or, dare we hope, Ms. Marvel) films, that’d be awesome.

Also Craig, bless his heart, has been refreshingly honest about not being happy about putting in tons of work in order to make shitty things. I doubt that the productions of Casino Royale or Skyfall were anything other than exhausting, but they both had solid scripts (I have my qualms with Skyfall but it mostly stuck…

Aw man. I mean, I get it: no actor wants to do the same part forever, he’s getting older, the training requirements for the part are nuts, and all that...

As long as the plot involves whichever characters Isaac and Pascal play making out at some point, I will be there opening night.

(And played by a now nearly A-list actor who probably has other things he’d like to be doing with his time than mugging in front of a green screen with Chris Hemsworth until the heat death of the universe.)

$50 on #8 in the “no way” pool. Fridging Bucky to give Cap some motivation seems like a gimme.

For all of its weird misfires... heck, in some cases because of its weird misfires, A Wrinkle in Time definitely demonstrated that she has some Kirby in her. Hopefully she’ll get to let her freak flag fly: the material certainly demands it.