Halloween Kills was probably one of the funniest movies of the year. 

anti-depressants have long been touted as population control mechanisms (“they turn you into zombies!”) by the nutzos. so i’m worried that they’ll go for that angle. unless they’re invested in it or something i guess.

making Dune is its own Dune metaphor. Duke Leto is Denis Villeneuve, taking stewardship over the notoriously difficult to manage Dune. the odds are against him, but if he pulls it off, he will increase his power to the next level. the Emperor is the studio who expect results no matter what. The Fremen are the fans…

Dune Part 2: Rise of the Second Part. 

as someone who saw it cold with no prior knowledge, i enjoyed it. i felt like there could have been more backstory, but the characters and themes were “tropey”* enough that a genre-literate person like me could fill in the blanks on my own. like oh, he’s the Chosen One... i bet he’ll unite the tribes. his dad is the…

right?! my 8 y/o nephew was watching Empire Strikes Back for the first time, and i made a comment midway through, and my brother got extremely pissed at me for “totally spoiling the ending and the main reason why they were watching it in the first place” and i’m like, dude, it’s been 41 years. quit making me have to…

That is, I have no doubts that a Dune 2 was coming. There is no way they didn’t know they had a good movie on their hands.

also, just because the movie ended without conclusion doesn’t mean that it ended in a cliffhanger. it ended as soon as they made it across the cliff.

as someone who watched the movie with no prior knowledge of the series, i’m just waiting to see how Chalamet turns into the White Ranger.

do vloggers never need to use their phones while vlogging? i feel like this use case justifies two separate devices (a phone and a camera). it’d seem much more convenient to carry a separate point and shoot with grip and mic attached at all times, rather than carrying around a grip, mic, and screen that you have to…

nah, i’d put the laptop as the bed of consumer devices, while the smartphone is the couch. thus making the tablet the futon.

dollars to donuts there’s gonna be a scene where Idris Elba says, as earnestly as possible, “do you know the way?”

Disney pretty much has infinite money. They could have funded an extra movie.

right. but if Ant-Man had been released prior to the Avengers, it would have either had to have been independent from the rest of the MCU, or they would have had to rework their Avengers story completely. i’d assume there’s a set budget and schedule for the movies they were planning at the time, so adding Ant-Man…

ah, good point. just like my mom getting me to finish my dinner as a kid, “you can’t just ignore the Broccoli”

You’d think Edgar Wright would have learned his lesson on trying to work with franchises with Ant-Man.

though with modern technology, it wouldn’t be hard for them to pull a George Lucas/James Cameron, and retroactively put the Eternals cast in the Disney+ hosted versions of the prior MCU movies. then re-release those on Blu-Ray as “the Eternals Collection”, put them in some fancy box with some kind of prop/figure, and…

what happened to that Amazon acquisition of MGM? MGM only really has Bond left in their movie stable. if they get bought out by Amazon, i think a Bond series could be a fresh take on the property. this would also get them on your suggested clockwork schedule, and give them a chance to really build out the world and…

the criticism of reboots is that they’re telling the same origin story over and over.

i don’t know how i’d feel about Bond having spy ancestors with the same personality.