I remember thinking at the time of the original, could they have found a basketball player who would have given a worse performance than Jordan?

I can’t say I remember a single thing about that movie, other than it being terrible.

I’m not going to argue that Grease II is an overlooked gem or that it isn’t a large downgrade from the original, but it isn’t a bad film either. Certainly better than most of the others on the list. The whole secret identity “Cool Rider” subplot is a bit silly, but at least they tried something a little bit different…

The Church has no policy prohibiting or discouraging members from reporting criminal conduct of anyone—Scientologists or not—to law enforcement.

Late stage Alzheimer’s patients stop doing things like eating, drinking. Or anything else other than lying in bed moaning.  Even with the best care in the world, you can’t stay alive that long in this state, and mercifully, many people are on hospice care at this point anyway.

I think Bezos is further ahead in the Bond-villainy race:

Don’t forget Kronsteen, who looks like he could have been Putin’s brother.

I don’t particularly care for the film, but I agree with your assessment of Sanchez.  He’s cruel but without the usual Bond villain megalomania.

Yup. Anyone else beside me find Detroit Rock City really obnoxious?

Interesting that the guy is walking a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.  They are some of the sweetest, most loving dogs you will ever encounter.  But the males will hump anything they can get their paws on anytime they get the chance, even after neutering.

Ever see Rat Race? Not a very good movie, and it ends with the characters stumbling into a Smash Mouth concert. Their reaction, which the actors play straight, is like they just dropped into a Beatles concert circa 1964.

RE: The Witcher, Henry Cavill

Yup, that was exactly my experience working at an AMC multiplex about a decade before you, except that we would start cleaning as soon as the credits began, then picked up the pace by the time the majority of people left the theater.

That too.  

That’s pretty much why the theater I worked for hired a professional service for the overnight cleaning.  

The casual night at the movie theater, where you had a choice of several genres, was largely killed by the nearly constant emphasis on super hero and sci fi blockbusters over the past decade. I used to go the theaters sometimes not knowing what I wanted to see until looking over the choices. This stopped when my…

I worked in a theater as a teenager back in the 90s. Even with 10-15 people cleaning the auditorium after a packed showing of a movie, we could really only get rid of the worst of the garbage before the line of people waiting to get in for the next showing started to get impatient and demanding entry. We usually had…

That seems to be the fate of every chain that goes national and advertises their food as “fresh”. National supply lines for fresh food are much more difficult to manage and keep consistent than regional, so the quality of the food almost always suffers.

I loved that score and it works well in the film... then I realize he re-used basically the same tune, which he more or less reworked from Prokofiev anyway, in several of his films.

A note should go out to another supporting role, Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing. I can’t forget the scene early in the film when he and his men come riding home on horses. These characters haven’t been introduced and haven’t even spoken a single word yet , but you know just by the way he carries himself that…