I…liked it? Not enough that I would have paid full price for it in 1995 dollars, but when it bombed and they were selling them off for $30 a piece I enjoyed me the heck out of Mario and Wario something-something.

Excellent concept.

I also remember reading a Dumb and Dumber novelization I got via school book order, but it seemed to me a lot of the toilet humor had been sanitized, with the specifics of Lloyd's dreams while falling asleep at the wheel (lighting a huge fart, kung fu fighting the chef and ripping out his heart, Mary's headlight…

I think GoldenEye pays more attention to relationships than any Bond film. There are scenes specifically built around characterizing the female lead and the henchman - Natalya and Boris - and setting up the backstory and conflict between the two, with parallels (betrayal, faked death) between Bond and the villain's…

TWINE achieves the distinction of being just good enough to be almost good. So many elements with positive potential, so many bad elements that could have been easily fixed by someone realizing that a nuclear physicist called Dr. Christmas Jones played by Denise Richards wasn't going to work any better on screen than…

The background to GoldenEye - in both plot and behind the scenes - is that Dalton had left on the 80s-revenge-flick aping Licence to Kill, we'd had 6 years without a Bond on the throne, and the Cold War had ended. Essentializing Bond was the film's primary mission (and I go with consensus that it did so awesomely).

Surrounding yourself with new versions of vintage technology, in part to reference the 1995 flop Johnny Mnemonic, in the context of your job as an 'information courier' would sound like the most hipster thing ever circa 2012-ish. So in that sense, the movie was modest in predicting the rate of technological change.

Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

I have seen Grown-Ups 2, and do think perhaps critics hate it more for what it represents then the actual viewing experience. Don't get me wrong: there is plenty to find contemptible in it, especially Sandler's schtick of being just a really, really wealthy everyday guy - unlike those elitist COLLEGE kids - but…

If artsier films got similar levels of exposure to genre films, I think the styles' audiences would be more comparable in size.

"You're gonna die, die, die, die now
You're gonna die, die, die, die
Ninety-six spears."

….so what its saying is, only by coming to terms with our equality as mortals will we get beyond superficial differences? That's like, existential.

And "The Battle of New Orleans" was recorded at Columbia!!!

Oh, its definitely also made to affirm America's American-ness within 'merica, and assumes the rest of the world is just as 'mericanthralled (which I hate).

I wonder what it suggests about the filmmakers' conceptions of the 'international market' they're increasingly making their films with financial consideration for.

I see it as in line with a lot of threads from his earlier work, especially through the practical effects-driven fantasy sequences and the sense of hyperactive expressionism externalizing the characters' internal disorder (rapid zooms and fisheye lenses, etc). The tone of the fantastic elements is similar, but the…

It's a terrifically OK half-hour movie about Jerusalem defending itself from a global zombie apocalypse.

Sudden decline? I thought Hardees / Carl's Jr. was more known for going from 'unseasoned meat on a soggy bun' in the 90s to kinda-almost-gourmet-for-fast-food circa 2000.

I'm actually in the middle of an 'exam' right now for my research methods 'class', which was a hesitantly-related collection of seminars. The program is itself multi-disciplinary. They needed to evaluate us somehow for this class somehow, so they just had us show up at a particular time and spend a few hours designing…

Not on them. But responsible, somehow.