Fifties sci-fi is my porn and everything about this sounds right up my alley, particularly the emphasis on dialogue and sound design. I’m at the point now where I’m craving a science fiction movie with no special effects or at most in camera/practical effects. If this ever shows up on Kanopy I’ll give it a look but…

I loved this movie when it first came out, being 21 and thoroughly misanthropic. Saw it twice in the theater and bought it the day it came out on DVD. Watched it in my late 30s and I couldn’t finish it. I guess the cynicism of the main characters just didn’t resonate with me anymore, or maybe I’m the one who’s more…

To be fair, the creator of the arm (whom we see design it in a CAD program) is supposed to be a lumberjack who is also a carpenter. And I guess an engineer based on his CAD knowledge? Although frankly, I would have suggested that the guy focus on engineering given that he has money problems. Even in Michigan, I would…

American Pie Presents: Girls’ Rules (apostrophe placement up for debate)

Actually, Blockers also includes a scene where several adults spy on and then physically intrude in their friends’ naked blindfolded foreplay, which is played entirely for laughs, so it’s got its own consent issues. 

I imagine Ryan Reynolds has 35mm prints of all these turds, and watches them all while laughing hysterically in the plush screening room in his house that we’ve all bought him. Ah, that Ryan. Cutting edge of comedy. What’s he gonna do next? Call someone a name?

Right, and the scene in Blockers where John Cena had to “chug” a beer through a beer bong inserted into his rectum was the height of sophistication.

To find out for sure, we’ll just have to wait until the film is released and magically appears on discounted DVD racks in truck stop convenience stores across the country.

massive cultural shifts such as the #MeToo movement have occurred in those intervening years, it seems insane that anyone would attempt to produce a lewd teen sex comedy in a franchise that has always appealed to the basest desires of teen boys

That’s disappointing. As much as i liked Primer, I REALLY liked Upstream Color, and was hoping to see something new from him.

I’m so happy this isn’t a turd! The trailers have been dreamy, and it’s at the top of my quarantine viewing list. And Rebecca Hall! Skipped most of this write up (I’ll come back this weekend) to keep it fresh, just wanted to throw a little rah-rah love down here. 

Jack Black dancing in underwear is kind of on brand, imo (NSFW)

Yeah, the piece of information I needed here was “are the clips that will inevitably show up on the hub sites any good”? This movie sounds awful, but I am not above such things. 

Independence Day is a straight up disaster movie that (effects aside) could easily have set next to “Earthquake” or “Towering Inferno” in the genre’s heyday and fit right in. Little more action oriented towards the end than was standard, but that’s what a massive effects budget gets you.

I’m concerned for Eddie’s mental health these days. Does he really need a bullseye and a big arrow reminding him where to strum his guitar?

I think it’s like Johnny Utah angry shooting into the air instead of at Bodhi.

Queen Latifah gets stung to death by a giant jellyfish. So… It has that going for it.

Sphere is one of my all time favorite sci-fi novels. I've always been too afraid to watch the movie, but I've actually heard that it's not terrible.

Dustin Hoffman in Sphere is sort of on outlier on this list.
Most are Oscar movies to silly movies. This was just a not good movie.

I'm not so sure about Sphere. It is a weak film from a storytelling standpoint and (to me) more boring than it has any right to be, but otherwise…just another good-looking but forgettable sci-fi adaption.