Either it’s “a mildly positive review” or he “didn’t like the movie very much”, pick one. You don’t give a paper a B-, then declare it one of the “worst of the year” without a massive change of heart in between.

Which I think supports the idea that Joker is (barely) on this list not because of the movie itself, but because of the director’s boneheaded comments and other critics vastly overselling it. This is supposed to be the “Worst” films of 2019, not “Most Overrated”.

You plan on going out in a blaze of chicken?

I will forever remember this as the show that indicated Lifetime is doomed.  They make a solid show that is well within their wheelhouse, and it goes nowhere - Netflix picks it up, and it explodes.

Sandra really needed to bring her weapons-grade adorable to bear in order for this movie to work. “Pretending to be a coma patient’s fiance” is a solid premise for a thriller, and this movie needs all of her charm to keep Lucy from seeming incredibly creepy.

Agreed. You need a really good explanation to justify a 1 in 14,000,605 random occurrence like that.

Yeah, being founded in the pizza mecca of *Kansas* kinda hurts Pizza Hut’s regional credibility.

There is, but my understanding is that Danielewski was actively resistant to the abridging and adaptation necessary to turn any novel into a movie. I guess you could call this his attempt to meet those demands halfway, but I don’t trust him to make anything accessible if there’s a way obscure it.

Huh.  So now “Swedish Queen of Florida” is a reality show waiting to happen.

Exactly.  Unhappy, maybe, but compared to most other capes’ childhoods, he got off easy.

“...a developer who went by T20 was caught in a massive scandal...(he) was found to be using his developer account to spawn unique and valuable blueprints and sharing them with the player organization he belonged to.”

(I couldn’t find a shorter version, I’m just referring to the 1st minute of this video.)

The State Fair music circuit will let you remain a professional musician in perpetuity, as long as you’re OK with being live muzak.

Seriously, I think a lot of the people who would go for this will spend all of their time either A) out of the room, B) in the bathroom, or C) asleep.  Not exactly riveting streaming.

I idly wonder how much of the lyrics she’s familiar with...

For me, the immediate follow up to the famous rifle-handoff scene is also hugely important. They’re still being chased by the Bullet Farmer, he just no longer has a searchlight to find them. So Max leaves with some chains and tells them to take off if he’s not back in half an hour. Next thing we know, Max is back with…

Yeah, if they don’t want people to watch it they just won’t air (or, in Netflix’s case, post) it.  They're not burying it so much as giving up on it.

I feel like vinyl albums are the Funko Pop figures of music - you buy them because you want a physical item displaying your affinity for the band, not for actually playing the music.

This means to be consistent, she’d need to sell not just stuff you need, but the *only* stuff you need.  Which sounds like the difference between a lifestyle brand and a cult.

Yeah, the formula indicates a newborn dog is equivalent to a 31 year old human.  That’s...not right.