You missed my point about swinging for fences. If you do some silly shit with a volcano because you’re using it to try to make it some ambitious metaphor and actually make an artistic statement, like Nolan or Lynch or Spielberg in his better days, it’s not irritating. If you do it in a “hey, ma! Look what I can do!…

I tried to watch this because I like the actors and enjoy stupid romcoms but this was so extremely bad I had to turn it off. Sadly, this review is accurate that Efron’s face is distractingly weird with all the work he’s had done.

Also of note is Mull’s character on Roseanne being out and having a same sex wedding on a prime time show in 1995. And, of course, being the principal on Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Mull was such a part of so many of the shows I watched over the years, and he was always delightful. RIP.

Don’t knock Ron Howard. Apollo 13, We Feed People, Rush, and Frost/Nixon are all very good movies. Sure, he can Oscar bait with he best of them, but he gets treated like a punchline way too often. Zemeckis hasn’t done anything in over 20 years I’ve been remotely interested in, though Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Romancing…

I love David Lynch. You want to use poetic license to actually take big swings? Fucking go for it. You want to do it to make some lazy Oscar bait? I’m going to complain.

At some point such things just let you know something is going to be incredibly ham-fisted in its attempts.

But if the point is that you’re part of something bigger or to juxtapose the scale of one’s life against the entirety of time, it would be even more compelling to show how much had to happen for this piece of land to exist as it is. I also may not have even brought this up but they have volcano and a large flaming…

You mean except 2001?

Especially for someone who has such a dramatic personality -- the entire reason they are a breakout star from the show. Acknowledge that it can feel aggressive to people and that everyone has moments where they’re not at their best. Because it’s true I’m sure all of us have had someone at work hate us at some point.

Ah, hate to break it to you, but Hanks is actually nice. He repairs typewriters and has such an extensive collection he donates models he fixes but already has to typewriter shops. He regularly donates machines to the typewriter shop in Cambridge, MA. Of course, it’s a little easier to sell a typewriter if you can say…

“What if Cloud Atlas was even worse and less ambitious?”

More like “what you think will look very macho will, in fact, look like the Village People performing Macho Man.”

This scene was an extensive topic in a screenwriting course I took.

Exactly that!

Shit like this makes me angry because it ignores the geological reality of the passing of this much time. Land shifts. Oceans rise and fall. The idea that this is a singular ever-flat piece of land over billions of year is... so fucking stupid.

A couple of the best Jezebel user submitted scary stories were from people who had absolutely skin-crawlingly creepy encounters while going door-to-door. I hope this movie is good. Grant seems to pick great roles for himself.

Transgender Dysmorphia Blues is one of my all-time favorite albums because it’s both entirely fresh but deeply relatable for me. I’m a ciswoman but the complex experience of gender and femininity is are real in this album and perfect for anyone who has ever yearned to feel safe and at home in their body, and truly…

it’s wild that it’s apparently not a career killer to do terrible things to women but saying to want to eat them -- well that’s just going to far.

Yes, unlike most of the other dead characters, the way he died wasn’t apparent but the whole “civil service for suicides” thing does suggest it would have been self-inflicted.

Chappell’s stage performances helped her go viral on TikTok and her songs are catchy so, once you hear them, you want to look her up. Sort of like how Doja Cat and Megan Thee Stallion blew up over TikTok. Theatricality + Catchy Hooks = Massive viral potential.