Oh man, thanks for posting that. I needed my undying and totally adult and rational love of Thor to light my way this Friday. Also, Rocket’s thoroughly consistent but largely unaddressed fetish for prosthetics is one of the best details in these movie.

I think it works because there’s something really freeing and fun about all of your toys playing together in one big adventure, the way they naturally did when you were a kid, and the people who made that movie understood that. The Batman is Batman, yes, but also maybe the version your kid brain would come up with…

I am honestly not sure why I continue to love this show the way I do. Other shows have gone similarly off the rails and I left in frustration. But I unabashedly still love the shit out of this show, even when it does actively anger me while watching. Like at one point last night, I was just saying Veronica’s name out…

I am mostly excited for them to be a couple because I am hopeful this means Josie gets something to do.

Cream of Mushroom soup has no business being in queso. Cream of Mushroom is for casseroles, Velveeta is for queso. You can be white trash but there’s still rules god dammit.

Denying that we are all human and we are all influenced by any number of internal and external factors is not helpful for any cause. He was saying that we all have the capacity to lean into those feelings, to be overwhelmed by them, but we also have the capacity to pull back. To see what you are doing even in the…

Don’t apologize, that was *chef’s kiss*

And now I will have Thun-DAH! Feel the thun-DAH! in my head so this entire article/discussion is a mine field of annoying earworms. I can get behind “Greatest Showman is the Imagine Dragons of musicals.” I will accept that. That’s fair.

Honestly, when I think of a Million Dreams, all I think of are the sheets. Those images are lovely enough to sustain the whole thing for me in my memory. Maybe we are so hungry for a great musical that just an honest attempt at one was enough. And I do think it was an honest attempt. Check out the Youtube of the cast…

I do wish critics would give that movie more credit, even in an article about the state of movie musicals. As an overall piece of cinema or even in a narrative sense, it is a mess. I will cosign that. But there are at least three set pieces that I would put up there against any other musical filmed (Rewrite the…

It sucks, but I can see the justification. It was just for a single performance and the blocking for these live musicals is much more precise than in a typical show. I bet they figured that it wasn’t worth the expense to run through the technicals twice in the off chance someone couldn’t make it on this one night.…

I almost think he just doesn’t understand things, period. Because Watchmen certainly has critical eye towards the concept of heroism and he fucked that up pretty good too. His main skill is making pretty violence that exists in a vacuum, which makes me think he really should have found work in video games. I don’t say…

“Joyless bore” pretty much nails it. You can be dark, you can be broody, maybe you can even be those things and still be Superman. Superman is usually the straight man in his own stories anyway. But when no one in your movie is interesting aside from the specific way they can smash things, that is an issue outside of…

“Um...you OK, son?”

Still, you think there would be some paperwork to fill out or something.

All the mentions of a mine this year also seemed to exist just to taunt us. Why were they even talking about a mine again? I honestly can’t remember, but I do know several times people were like, “The mines!” and I was like, “Yes, today Satan!”

Whoa, whoa. Let’s not go so far as to say Fred “participated.”

I agree. I think the fact that they keep all of the other characters around, often with their own story lines, does a great deal to show that everyone has value and a journey outside of who they are or are not boning at any given time. If Rebecca ends up with someone, I feel they did enough for it to feel like part of…

I think I also grade it on a curve, because it’s honestly the first movie I remember seeing that called out this behavior at all. I specifically remember the big fight between Pete and Debbie as kind of flooring me at the time, because she was expressing things I had felt but never before articulated. Or heard…

I mostly agree. Although it does present the stereotype of “shrew and goofball” or that its the woman’s job to be the adult in the room, I also think it makes a genuine effort to deconstruct those roles a bit. Paul Rudd, who Seth Rogan’s character idolizes for most of the movie, gets called out for being a stealth…