And tells us about your scents!

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God damn it, Dennis! Here I am trapped in my no-salt, no-fat, no flavor diet... and now I MUST head to Jim’s.

And if he keeps making stuff like Fences I will support him with my dollars every chance I get.

He is the best part of the 70s’ trash Earthquake. He is listed in the credits as Walter Matuschanskayask.

Counterpoint: Enemy Of The State is an “unofficial” sequel. Hackman plays the same character after having gone deep underground.

The “stupid parents” trope is annoying and fortunately does not appear here. Dad is shown to be a bug-out bag at the door type, but by the end he not only has a moment but a significant one. One that all parents understand.

Sometimes people want something fun.

My in-laws drive from Michigan to visit us on occasions, and one sister in law in particular refuses to leave until she picks up a full bucket of Martin’s (a local grocery chain) fried chicken.

I just want my Frosty Root Beer Float back on the menu.

I play what I like.

“No means no,” even if the person saying it is Janet Jackson. Full stop.

“Rotten Tomatoes’ ratings are arbitrary and ultimately meaningless...”

God, yes, I too remember “fun!” Two bag popcorn movies, one for the stuffing of the face and the other for the hurling at the screen.

As Mr. Del Toro says in the opening of the director’s cut... “If people like it or don’t like it they can come to me and I have no one else to blame.”

Odd that I think of the “mixed critical reception” in the same way I thought the response to Pacific Rim: it’s kaiju fighting mecha. Did anyone go in expecting to hear “Is this a dagger I see before me?”

Bollocks.

IIRC weren’t the Oscars (tm) created in the first place because it was cheaper than the Ol’ Dirty Bastards that the studios from paying people what they were worth?

Old Hollywood rules.

Fade in: The sound of Townes Van Zandt singing Waiting Around To Die can be heard while we see a checkerboard, while credits appear. A hand reaches in to move one piece and is then withdrawn. From the other side of the board, a hand comes in to move a piece. We hear laughter and then there is a series of swift moves…