I thought this was a really fun, cute episode with a great resolution to the A Plot’s problem. That said it was a little goofy two highly intelligent members of Starfleet immediately assume the person they spend 90% of their time with is an elite spec ops agent, based on an absurd rumor and couple pieces of…

Charlie Cox was first mentioned to be appearing in the movie late last year. That’s not really theorizing at this point, since there are a lot weird people who hang out by shoot locations, tracking where actors are at all time and comparing it to production schedules. Etc. That’s why all these Marvel movies have most…

Gahhh...take your star and go.

Nosferato could be good. I’ve liked Robert Eggers output thus far, but now I kinda just wanna watch Shadow of the Vampire. It’s such a weird horror/dark comedy fictionalized telling of filming the original movie from the early 2000s with Willem Dafoe and John Malkovich giving absolutely great performances. Like I said…

I hope so. I really do. I want this movie to get weirder than the frankly not-weird-enough sequels.

You had me at walking through mirrors. That’s the kind of on the nose metaphors I’ve been missing since “You’re my savior, man. My own personal Jesus Christ.” in the first movie.

Or Nick Fury and SHIELD could have just said Mysterio deceived everyone. No Way Home’s plot points just seem unnecessarily convoluted when none of this has been a real issue in these movies before. They kind of broach the subject here and there - Iron Man 2 and Civil War come to mind - but it almost never seems to…

Yeah there seemed to be a ton of easier ways out of this situation seeing that in Far From Home Peter was working with SHIELD. Even in that organization’s presumably weakened state post-Endgame snap/unsnap thing they could have done a press release saying Mysterio lied and this plot point could be tossed out. Here it…

This looks fun. Dumb as all hell, but fun. Suddenly an Avenger is being held accountable for extrajudicial murder in another country? A murder that Peter is innocent of and also nothing Tony Stark hasn’t done ten times over. Stark would literally fly into other countries’ airspaces, ice some dudes, cause…

Joe Keery is in the movie Free Guy. There is a core plot point, borrowed almost exactly from the movie Tron, where the truth about who made the game in the movie is hidden in the digital world.

Hell yeah it is. Cruise learned to do all the slight of hand tricks with the disk in that scene after the CIA heist where Ethan fools Jean Reno’s character/ That way they didn’t have to do any special effects or editing in the scene and all that extra little detail still holds up. Given the movie is now 25 years old…

I feel like I ran basically the same trajectory with that series as you. I was obsessed with Interview in my teens and I stopped somewhere around that Armand book as well. I probably couldn’t really give a plot synopsis to any of them anymore though. Probably just snippets and the general gist of certain characters. 

To use parlance often seen in video game discourse - that’s a feature not a bug.

I really did not get this movie at all. I thought it was rather bland and the humor fell extremely flat outside of a couple exchanges between Elba and Cena’s characters (a solid 50% already used in the trailers) and one throwaway line from one of the government workers 10 min before the end.

The scope of Guillermo del Toro’s movies were much smaller. It was supposed to be 2 movies and entirely practical sets and costumes. He spent 18 months in preproduction. When he was let go from the project WB didn’t use any of del Toro’s preproduction elements. Basically starting from scratch just before they went…

These were my first thoughts as well. LotR became a trilogy of instant classics that still have an impact on the zeitgeist 20 years later through earnest cultural impact (and not just memes! ... but also a lot of memes). Whereas the most notable thing about the Hobbit trilogies is... that Lindsey Ellis almost won an…

I love Taika Waititi, but I hope he doesn’t become like one of my other favorite directors: Guillermo del Toro. Which is to say, someone with a unique visual flare tied to dozens of interesting projects... that never see the light of day.

Even if it were the best season its average would be dragged down to ‘mediocre at best’ by the sperm monster episode, which was so bad it honestly made me question why anyone would tune into the show after that episode. If the fanbase instantly evaporated the following week after I wouldn’t have questioned it.

No joke that’d be a pretty bonkers ass movie that I don’t think would be good, but I WOULD watch the hell out of. 

I know Fizban’s book here isn’t the Dragonlance book people wanted or expected (personally I always assumed this book was a “Dragonomicon” style book), but it’s a huge relief it’s not restricted to just one setting. The de facto assumption from WotC that I’m running a game in Forgotten Realms, a setting I haven’t run…