So, a less offensive version of Shallow Hal, except still as shallow and probably still offensive.

I just want to know how she goes from making a Christian film to working with Lena Dunham. That’s a pretty weird swing.

That’s one down. Now we just need half ass, insincere apologies for defending Polanski from about a hundred other celebrities.

I’d be in on Charlie Day or any other cast member from It’s Always Sunny being the new Joker.

Leonardo DiCaprio is our first choice. DiCaprio says no.

They were a little more deft with tacking things onto Cloverfield Lane. It was still obvious what was added, but at least it felt like part of the narative and didn’t feel the need to establish how it connected to the first film. The add ins to Pardox were painful shout outs that didn’t fit at all, with the worst…

“Good musicianship” is the standard argument I hear from guys who tell me a band like DragonForce or Dying Fetus is better than any band I like because they play fast and have a double bass. Or, that Nirvana was a terrible band because Kurt Cobain only knew power chords.

I don’t think he’s restless. I just think he has a strong vision for his projects and he’s not going to compromise. Nothing wrong with that, but if he keeps it up he’s going to start having a hard time getting anything off the ground. It’s always a disappointment when he leaves because I’ve liked everything he’s done.

It was a pretty middling, standard studio sci-fi film with predictable tropes and a muddled mess of ideas. It’s perfectly fine for lazy weekend viewing and easily forgettable. It’s just once they cram in all of the obviously out of place Cloverfield shout outs that it becomes sort of obnoxious.

I us Roku and it’s something with the apps. I have to turn the volume up higher when I use Netflix or, especially, Sling. Amazon and Hulu seem to have normalized volume. Youtube, I have to turn the volume down to a very low setting because it seems to have it’s volume set at double the level of anything else.

The conspiracy is in the loot box.

Fun’s over, everyone. Recognitions is here.

That was just the one time in college.

Finally, I can see a wookie’s dick.

If you want to to recognize throw away references like Slusho and Kelvin Oil. Garbage like that are the only real connections.

Okay, Fox is just pulling movie titles out of a hat to turn into TV shows, right?

Look at Walking Dead. It gets downright gross with it’s violence and gore, but is almost puritanical in regards to sex and cursing.

Animal Kingdom was what I was thinking of, in particular, but Good Behavior and Claws have their moments as well.

Sex scenes on USA and and TNT are at soft core porn levels and violence on most networks has been gorier than most R rated movies for years now, but we’re just now getting brave enough to allow a curse word? Shouldn’t these things have happened in reverse order?

I assumed that this was probably very close to Del Toro’s rejected Creature from the Black Lagoon remake that he pitched to Universal. He probably changed enough that Universal couldn’t sue and that was about it. I doubt anything was influenced by Splash, though. With the twist that’s obvious from the first frame, it…