Hot take/dementia alert: The Quick and the Dead is Sam Raimi’s second best movie, after A Simple Plan. It’s pure kinetic pulp bliss.

Plasma Sphere!

When the pitbull’s out of order, you must whippet. Whippet good.

Enjoy Sarah Connor beating the shit out of Joel Kramer, everybody.

It’s about ethics in farting testicle journalism.

Payforward’s a bitch.

I feel like you need to watch this. Every minute of an Edgar Wright movie has this level of attention to detail and cinematic storytelling.

True, although it’s hard to fault it as a deliberate and self-aware exercise in pure style, especially with a virtuoso like Wright pushing the genre to giddy new heights. I mean, goddamn that coffee run single take, right up to the police lights in the revolving door.

I like how your first entry talks about how original movies can succeed, as demonstrated by two sequels being greenlit. How about fewer original action franchises and more original action movies, full stop?

I’m sorry for your loss.*

I’m not sure if it’s worth devoting 33 seconds to a song called B.U.D.L.I.G.H.T. Lime!

There are few people I would rather punch in the face than Michael Rapaport. He’s just the worst.

“(Retrofit), art comics favorite Yuichi Yokoyama tells an opaque and vague story of a group of people entering a bar. The characters are nonexistent and the plot infinitely less so.”

I assume Spruce Bringsteen has been done.

Really, Hughes? All the rest are absolute garbage?

“Star Wars is just samurai Flash Gordon set to Korngold!”

Holy shit, are you ever wrong. Miller is the finest director of action that has ever lived, and he upped his game tremendously with Fury Road. Simply in terms of its command of action rhythm and kinetic clarity, this movie is in a class by itself. Aside from that, Miller uses characters’ actions, tics, and glances to…

Rogue Nation deserves more than a single sentence mention. It’s the best spy-action movie of the modern era. It is a single malt to Bond’s Malibu and OJ.

Thanks, OklaBama!

Counterpoint: It is fucking glorious. Cavill may have achieved maximum human attractiveness with that ‘stache.