When I saw the trailer, I remember thinking, ‘This is one of the goddamn dumbest lines I’ve ever heard in a movie.’. Thanks for the reminder. /s

I imagine Tim Burton these days feeling a lot like Peter Jackson in that picture of him (Jackson) on the set of The Hobbit; like his soul has been crushed into dust. Filmmaking no longer holds any thrill for him. It’s a goddamn job, now.

“Basil, Vanessa was a fembot!”

The more I think about that review, the more I think that the neckbeards owe Brie Larson an apology, because if this is how their precious White Male Critics (see also Reed, Rex and ‘everything’s better with butter’ Edelstein, David) are going to comport themselves, film criticism could do with some diversity.

Counterpoint: someone had the bright idea to throw Bringing Up Baby, Muscle Beach Party and The Apartment into a blender and the result is just the worst damn smoothie. Tate is luminous in it (and the score by Vic Mizzy is good), but definitely a movie I regret watching.

Minor nit: McQueen insisted on getting as many lines as Newman (who, I presume, didn’t give a damn), but yeah, pretty much.

I find the three-second teases way more irritating than the slowed-down covers, but to each their own.

Now that you mention it, I’m a little upset that the Twitter joke account ‘80s Don Draper’ threw in the towel a couple years ago. Damn funny stuff.

Saw it for the first time a few weeks ago. I’m loath to utter a sentence about this movie that includes the words ‘pills’, ‘taking’ and ‘crazy’, but am I the only one who didn’t get this? The film takes a very measured approach to a premise that seems to cry out for a farcical treatment. Perhaps the awkwardness was…

No writing, no direction, no acting, no title sequence, no nothing. Bullshit!

The judge answering her phone in Law Abiding Citizen.

IIRC, it was because she had to audition and...well, ‘why would I need to do that?’ was likely her thinking.

The rat symbolizes obviousness.

“I figure the best way to punish you would be to sleep with Elaine.”

The bit in “Amazon Women in the Mood” where Amy yells at Bender in Korean to make him interface with the Femputer (and him muttering the expression as he walks away) is one of my favorite Amy moments.

“Those people we don’t want here are trying to leave! Force them to stay!”

“Put it in H!” is easily in my top 5 of Simpsons lines.

I know humor is subjective, but am I the only one who thinks that the humor of Cold Pursuit didn’t land most of the time? I could kind of see what they were going for, but it had no effect on me.

Yeah, the whole ‘Adelaide was really the double the whole time’ thing felt like it was thrown in because Peele wanted a big twist without laying the groundwork first.

I’ll bite. What part of Booksmart didn’t work for you?