I DO love me some physical media, ESPECIALLY the carefully curated Criterion Collection editions. Despite owning a digital copy of The Grand Budapest Hotel, I’ve already pre-ordered the new Criterion edition, because I CAN.

Also it’s frustrating how many critics I’ve seen complain that the main characters don’t have enough depth. There’s tons of character development if you’re paying attention:

“This thing is a monument to its self importance.”

Plus it’s hardly a “subplot.” It’s one scene in the movie. It’s not as if chef Ahab spends the rest of the movie chasing after Sebastian Moby Dick. I like it when movies create lush worlds with lots going on. A true subplot involving chef and Sebastian could surely have gotten tedious, but the one scene, that directly…

To me I feel like what the film’s doing wrt Tate is two things.

I enjoyed it very much. I was surprised at the pacing of it, which was somehow kind of a relief. It’s like he decided to make a Dazed and Confused kind of hang out movie. It’s going to age well. Some things:

A couple points: It is never confirmed that Cliff killed his wife. It’s left up in the air. He’s sitting there with the harpoon gun and his wife is drunk and stumbling to get up as the sound of a wave crashing up against the back of the boat happens. Hard cut. Obviously, Cliff’s story is that he didn’t kill his wife,…

The Pete’s Dragon remake was stunning in every way. The original may as well not exist at this point.

Yeah, I hear you. I’ve experienced a very small echo of similar behavior from my very Catholic mom towards my atheism. But she sacrificed a lot for me, and so I try to keep things up with her.

Yes, I had a similar experience too. When I finally divulged to my family that I had been molested, my parents were very supportive. However, one of my siblings brushed it off as me being “immature” and I guess somehow deserving of having been molested? Makes absolutely no sense. Still sore about those comments years…

I spend my Saturday afternoons volunteering at Upward Bound at Pace University, an extracurricular program that provides college prep and counseling for low-income, first-generation, college-bound high school students.

The Internet Outrage Machine needs to Calm. The. Fuck. Down. He spoke an uncomfortable truth. Someone you know and loved is brutalized by (insert Race, Religion or Ethnicity here) and you don’t feel for a hot minute that you will tear into the next (insert Race, Religion or Ethnicity here)... Stop Lying. Yeah, he took…

He obviously brought it up because the revenge angle plays pretty heavy in the new movie he’s interviewing about. He goes on to explain why he felt those feelings, and the time/context in which those feelings came up. He’s expressed shame and regret for those feelings.  His only mistake was sharing them with a bunch…

About a hundred and fifty pounds.

Well, yeah. And that’s good.

1. Why do the Imperial gunners let the escape pod go when they know there could potentially be droids on board with important information? Why not blow up the pod just to be safe?

All of those criticisms were facile and easily explained, so thanks for doing so. My favorite dumbass criticism is “we’ve never seen THIS before!”

While I’m still bitter that Godzilla (2014) killed off Bryan Cranston’s character a third of the way into the movie and how the film constantly cut away when the Kaijus were on screen, Kong: Skull Island has put me somewhat at ease that Legendary Pictures learned from that mistake.

They had no choice, in his British accent he kept calling everyone “Whoms.”