I think I would have been okay with the turn if they just pulled the trigger on the sexual tension between him and The Rock.

Yeah, it's bad. It never really makes sense that Theron is so insistent on having Dom work for her. And on Dom's side, it never makes sense that he doesn't clue his team in even a little bit on what's actually going on. Also, everyone seems to have already forgotten about Deckard Shaw having killed Han. Family, etc.

Okay: genuine answer.

Come to the Philippines. We still have them.

Colonial legacies are just hard to shake. We've only really been independent for like, seventy years. We were left English as an official language that was taught in schools, and the American dream as a national aspiration.

I guess I should say something here.

I loved Godzilla Resurgence (it was released in the Philippines under that title). It feels almost completely unique in the mainstream movie scene in that it isn't a story about an individual hero saving the day. It's a film about logistics and infrastructure. Godzilla has been destroying infrastructure for years, and…

Must this really be reduced to such a dismissive and extreme position? I was hardly condemning Sully for being a professional and a hero. Is it really so unreasonable for people in government to investigate an unusual event like landing a plane on the Hudson river? Maybe find out if we can learn anything from that?

I'm genuinely surprised by the generally warm critical reaction to this film. I saw it last night and I found it dull and kind of repugnant. I feel like the film was trying to make the National Transportation Safety Board out as villains for investigating the incident and deigning to question Captain Sullenberger at…

These aliens were so incredibly gracious. They had a 3000 mile wide spaceship that generated its own gravity, and would destroy cities merely by passing over them. They could have wiped out all of humanity simply by doing a few passes. Then it would have been much easier to just dig into the core. But I guess they had…

The opening credits of the film feature snippets of reports about a real life tragedy here in the Philippines: the deaths of 44 police officers while in pursuit of a terror suspect.

This film made a lot more sense to me when I started thinking of it as a stealth Silverhawks prequel movie.

Are either of you going to see Erik Matti's Honor Thy Father?

It's the season finale.

Born here. Japanese father. Filipino mother.

The writer of both those films, Michiko Yamamoto, actually wrote On the Job, and is credited for the story of Norte. Erik Matti's next film is also written by her. Their collaboration has proven fruitful.

This sentiment frustrates me so much. In 2014 alone, there was more "artsy stuff" produced than the low-rent films you described.

Yeah sadly availability is a real issue. Even here, in the Philippines, it can be tough to get copies of stuff. DVDs of two of the most important films of the last few years, On the Job and Norte: The End of History, are available on Amazon.

This statement is wildly inaccurate. It ignores the vast majority of independent films made here, which run a wide gamut of genres and themes.

It really bothered me that the film didn't bother to change its already half-assed found footage aesthetic. The films its referencing weren't shot like this.