For me the comedy mostly works, but there are a few groan worthy moments. I've always suspected that Last Crusade was influenced by those old Bing Crosby and Bob Hope "Road to…" movies, but I've never been in a position to ask Spielberg about this.

The vine swinging and those stupid waterfalls were two of my least favorite moments in Crystal Skull.

I would put Marcus Brody's "the pen is mightier than the sword" line ahead of nuking the fridge on a list of silly shit in Indiana Jones.

I've been making my way through the series, and I just finished Last Crusade. Temple of Doom is a mixed bag, but how dark it gets is one of the better aspects of the film. I love the way that Indy and company get dragged through so much shit for so much of the film. It gets really bleak. But because it gets so dark,…

Crystal Skull has some problems, but for me they are almost all in the back half of the film. The nuke-the-fridge scene is one of those weird internet truisms that every seems to agree is terrible, but is in fact a lot of fun.

I didn't even know the fake brother (or faux bro) was an invention of the series. His character was uneven to say the least. But the ending of that series killed me.

That miniseries about James Franco stopping the assassination of JFK was pretty good, though.

I'm sure there are people who won't have their minds changed, but when there's a very visible show depicting the sins of the Confederacy, then it becomes more difficult to make claims about states' rights and other nonsense.

"But in America, we built monuments to celebrate and commemorate the leaders and "heroes" of the Confederacy. People proudly brandish Confederate battle flags and children are taught that the Civil War was about "State's Rights." The myth of the genteel and honorable General Robert E. Lee persists to this day. And the…

But couldn't you point to everything you just mentioned as a reason why a show like this could actually do some good? The Confederate battle flag is woven into Southern culture because people try to claim it stands for culture and states' rights. A show like Confederate has the opportunity to show the Confederacy for…

In preparation for this, I've been rewatching First Day of Camp, and my one nerdy complaint is that we didn't need a backstory for talking can of vegetables. Still, I can not wait until for this!

I remember when they first introduced commercials before the movie, and I was incensed. Now, like with most things, I've just learned to live with it.

Before this year, I had only read Salem's Lot in high school and a handful of short stories. I wasn't too crazy about anything by King, but I decided I would give him another chance in 2017. I started with Misery, which was fantastic, so maybe I have been missing out all these years.

I figured that I made it through Infinite Jest, so this shouldn't be too bad.

Oh, I've been warned.

I just started the novel today because I want to read the thousand page book before seeing the movie, which I guess means I'll probably be able to stream the movie sometime before the end of this decade.

Here you go: https://www.washingtonpost….

John Cena's like twice as ripped as Marky Mark, which I think means the Bumblebee movie will be twice as good as the last two Transformers movies. (In other words, it will still suck).

You would think that seeing Jeff Sessions, a seventy-five year old man, get bullied like he was in third grade would be enough to warn people off, but these people can't help but try to just get a little closer to the center of power.

One of the more interesting revelations of the Trump administration is the fact that already powerful and privileged people will go to any lengths to degrade and debase themselves to achieve even more power and privilege. It's been a real study in human nature.