If only the rest of the movie had been as inventive as the opening scene...

I keep hearing that families don’t go see movies anymore. But there are still plenty of family movies making bank. The latest Minions made almost a billion worldwide, Puss In Boots made 470 million and counting, Sonic 2 and Sing 2 each did 400 million.

I can’t say I agree with the reviewer on the movie or the sequels getting better with each installment. Four was up there, but 5 might have been the worst of the lot (haven’t seen 3 in a while). This one was better than 5, but nowhere near the top.

I’d say 2 too many. Scream 4 was good.

The problem I saw is that none of those people “needed” saving. As presented, there was very little threat to any of them from the infection. Even if Joel was weighing the pros and cons, there wasn’t much need for a cure to save people who weren’t terrible.

Beyond the lack of infected, the only people that seemed worth saving were already well-protected in their fort. I’m probably missing someone, but aside from the brothers in Kansas City, everyone who died at the hands of the zombies was generally awful. And the rest of the folks weren’t shown to be in much danger. The…

I dunno. The solution they proposed sounded completely unrealistic, with basically no chance of success. You want me to let her die based on that idea? Not a chance.

Governors retaliating against private corporations for their political actions is good now? DeSantis will be pleased to hear this.

City of God!

Have you seen Seven? It seemed like a pretty awful way to go out.

It belies the very nature of the show to me. The zombie hoards are so horrific that folks have to live in quarantined, heavily fortified cities - except when they don’t. And the trek Joel wanted to take to find his brother was a huge, fraught undertaking. Turns out it wasn’t.

I think Rock’s idea is if he laid off Jada then he’d be giving Will Smith just what Smith wanted. Smith slapped Rock and said to stop talking about his wife. Rock’s response is no, I’m not going to stop. I’m going to double down. And that’s going to hurt Smith even more.

Why are those my only options?

“...in 2018 that Leo ‘figured out twenty years ago that conservatives had lost the culture war. Abortion, gay rights, contraception—conservatives didn’t have a chance if public opinion prevailed. So they needed to stack the courts.’”

“The show has two modes: fetch quest and “save a village.””

TBH, I’m only watching the show for my kid. More of it doesn’t really sound very appealing. I think I’ll just stick with this write-up. haha

I haven’t seen The Green Knight, but Lowery directed the remake of Pete’s Dragon. I thought that was good. And as Dowd noted, a good case for a remake as the original wasn’t considered all that highly.

My kid really likes The Mandalorian, but he had no interest in the Boba Fett show. I didn’t either so we never watched it. Apparently we needed to? That’s obnoxious.

This was actually an original character, though. Carano wasn’t a very good actor, but at least her character wasn’t just ported over from some other Star Wars property. Even the two main characters are derivative of long-time fan favorites. If they really believed in her story they’d just recast her.

I saw this comment before I read the list and didn’t realize it was in response to a mistake. I thought Kieran instead of a Rory was just another reason Roman was more despicable. And I thought, “yeah, good point.”