It went way too steampunk and was badly miscast.

I did recently reread Murder on the Orient Express and there were some terms there that clearly wouldn’t be used today.  I don’t think tidying these up would make any different at all in the narrative, but reasonable minds could differ I suppose.

Talk about a missed opportunity.  That was some great IP that just went totally to waste.

With a trip to the movies costing what it does, I think there’s pressure to make the audience feel like they got enough film for the money.

They just need to stop making these. 

I guess getting Zava is good enough is Xenu isn’t available.

More Ted Lasso > less Ted Lasso

He seems to put up with that American shit on McDonalds commercials.

“Could Rupert’s office look any more like a villain’s lair?”

Angela Bassett wasn’t that great in Wakanda Forever, which wasn’t a particularly good movie even by Marvel standards, let alone Oscar standards. Bassett’s performance wasn’t the best in its own movie, so it can’t be the best in any movie.  Her performance was basically just glowering and being loud.

It’s kind of a career achievement award for Jamie Lee Curtis.  May or may not be right, but it’s the kind of thing the academy does frequently.  

I thought Hugh Grant’s interview was great and don’t understand why it’s panned. Everyone understands that the red or beige or whatever carpet is a vapid exercise. He’s being interviewed by a person in a two-piece bathing suit with a cape. The entire exercise is as fundamentally unserious as his fully British…

Space Jam 2 is egregiously bad.  It took everything that gave the original a bit of charm as a kids movie and surgically removed it.

Arthur Agee ended up at Arkansas State.  I grew up near there, so I remember watching him play in college. 

Hoosiers doesn’t have an “ugly racial subtext.” The South Bend team at the end is practically window dressing; they’re treated in exactly the same way as every other Hickory opponent. If anything, the other opponents—all of which look like Hickory—often show how petty people can be.  The first half of the movie is…

Wakanda Forever isn’t a great Marvel movie, let alone Oscar worthy.

Popeye has its moments, and the music’s actually pretty good. The film falls apart in the third act, IMO.

I see what you did there.

That stair scene is fantastic

But if AI takes over corporate CEO jobs, how will we overcompensate them?