Not even that, but the cheek line is awful. It takes all of 5 minutes to shore that up with a decent beard trimmer.

The only thing that keeps me going some days is the memory of my son’s 4th-grade teacher asking back a former student (my daughter) to read “I Am Jazz” to the class. She was in 7th at the time and the teacher had seen her go from cheerful boy to withdrawn and miserable boy to happy and confident girl. My daughter…

There is no humanity in Snyders movies. The so called heroes are all dour murderous thugs. Whedon at least knows how to write people.

I’m not shocked at all. As a city dweller that has to deal with friends and past significant others that have an annual inner debate about “moving to Austin” this is the kind of stuff I point to to change those minds

Warner Brothers spent $70 million to get the film from a C- to a C. I love it.

Also, even if you appreciate the fact that Snyder has his own visual style as a director, I think this sentence really sums up why it never adds up to a compelling experience: “There’s no such thing as a small moment in a Zack Snyder movie.…

Yeah, it’s less delight I took in Justice League (though I had a low-expectations good time) and more my dislike of Infinity War.

I’m now pushing for the Snyder’s Of Hanover Cut, where Henry Cavill’s moustache footage from the Whedon version is now reinserted, but he’s constantly eating pretzels so you can’t see it.

While the ending leaves room for sequels, it doesn’t end on a cliffhanger or anything.  The credits told me it was based on a book I’d never heard of, but it wasn’t until I came looking for the review that I knew that book was just the first in a trilogy.  The film’s ending didn’t make me feel like there HAD to be a…

The bit in the hardware store where he’s looking at scythes and tells the smoker “See you soon”, he’s great. 

Absolutely. Also, what other slacker-ish flick had the wherewithal to devote five minutes to a Seventh Seal homage/parody?

My only problem with Bogus Journey — which, as noted, is the superior sequel — is that it ruins the time travel mechanism from the first film... when Denomolos suddenly “magicks” a weapon into his hand using the “I’ll just go back in time and remember to bring a weapon” when he didn’t have one to begin with.

This is another great bit of sequel doubling down — Excellent Adventure introduces the will-to-power bit of time travel (once we escape we’ll send us the tools we need to escape), Bogus Journey logically follows that with other people being able to work the same conceit until no, the protagonists will just beat you,…

“At times, the conceptual whimsy of Bogus Journey feels compatible with the work of innovative music-video directors like Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze, whose careers were starting up around this period.”

The third movie can be pretty creaky but its heart is in the right place, and the kids are really good.

Which Death got by MUGGING PEOPLE IN HEAVEN. God I love this movie.

I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s better than the first one, but it is certainly very funny movie.

For some reason, I always think of how Rufus and de Nomolos start with the classic/hoary, “my old teacher/my best student” trope, only to reveal at the end that de Nomolos was Rufus' gym teacher. It's such a dumb gag that takes the WHOLE MOVIE to pay off, but I love it. 

Savage Nobody feels not letting the assholes win is probably the best thing to do, but there’s always that little voice in the back of your head that says, “Remember the one time you enjoyed this and x happened?”

Yeah a red flag the size of one of those giant American flags they use at NFL games.

I actually did quite like their first album, but I distinctly remember many of my friends who were very much into folk complain that Mumford and sons is like the McDonalds of folk music.