To be honest, this was part of why I wouldn’t have minded if it kept its record. There’s something so fascinating to the idea that the #1 movie in the world would be, culturally speaking, one of the most forgettable when lined up next to the other challengers.

>Smell-o-Vision

Cut to John Waters pulling up outside the premiere. He rolls down the window of his car and sticks his head out to read the marquee. He shrugs his shoulders -

Waters: (unimpressed) Eh. It’s been done.

He pulls back into his car, rolls up the window, and drives away.

Just gonna leave this here rather than let the reference go unchecked.

Given his current stance on adaptations in general, he wouldn’t want to be getting paid for it. There’s a reason why he actually had it made official post-V For Vendetta that all future adaptations give the credit and money solely to the artist and leave him out of it.

I’m gonna agree with this and take it one step further.
The omission of the squid isn’t the biggest ‘you missed the point’ sin of the movie to me. It’s a tie between the fact the movie clearly picks a side, as shown in how much visual coding of ‘villain’ has been added to Veidt- and throwing out the final conversation…

The strangest part of this is - they teased the weird shit in Infinity War. We had that whole scene where he dispatches several of the Guardians temporarily in strange fashions, complete with utterly fucking with Peter by having his blasters shoot bubbles.
After that, it’s mostly just teleporting, brute force, and ONE…

Total confession - I had no idea what the Hell the actual plot of Cats was about until yesterday.

Having read what it is, I’m unsettled by how much, once you take out the whimsy, it reads like a narrative that will culminate in a blood sacrifice.

That the movie’s cats bear a striking resemblance to Mike Myers’s…

What happens when the Stones are gone?
WE ALL FREEZE AND DIE!

Re: Vormir - I just want that to play as a quick clip. It’s not even a full stop.
He arrives, the cloaked figure emerges.
“Welcome, traveler, to Vormi—”
[The two stare for a moment]
(in unison) “YOU AGAIN?!”
[cut to next scene]

Have only seen a few eps, but will second this as actually pretty fun.

Buckle up though, Japan does NOT mind playing up the Nazi imagery with the villain organization Shocker. It’s not to the level of shockingly bad taste, but it does occasionally get weird.

This is close to where I’m at.
Some I’ll still see on a case by case basis (Black Panther 2 is a pretty safe bet unless the trailers give me a REALLY bad feeling otherwise) but now that they’ve done the IW/Endgame payoff, I no longer have quite the urgency they did for a while and a fair number may just go to ‘I’ll…

Admittedly, the rule has also been kind of exaggerated and has several inaccuracies (TMP’s fine, if a bit dry, III’s only major problem is the fact it was bridging two fan favorites that it looks like it comes up short next to - and not for nothing, the self-destruct scene is up there on the generally great moments in…

Currently:
-Working my way through Vinland Saga (one part reread, one part new material I hadn’t gotten to yet)
-Finishing up For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder that Shocked Jazz Age Chicago after starting that one at the very end of June
and I have Conspiracy of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun…

Agreed (that said, I’ve also kind of got a soft spot for using Stellan Skarsgard as a battering ram, but even I’ll openly admit it can’t top the SLJ surprise death.)

The Ducard-is-Ra’s thing is one case where I’d argue it actually tracked. In particular as part of the greater arc of that series where it’s the concept of person vs idea.

The read had gotten from it was that, like Batman, the League of Shadows had treated ‘Ra’s al Ghul’ in a similar fashion. A mantle to be taken up to…

Over the course of my education, I had two teachers show us this in relation to The Turn of the Screw at two different points.

In high school, it didn’t really click with me. I didn’t dislike it. It was just...in one ear, out the other.

Seeing it again in college for a Film & Literature course, I got sucked in (and…

As a horror movie, it’s a B-/C+.

As a video game movie, for all its faults as an adaptation, it’s still one of the better contenders out there.
That says a lot right there.

It didn’t make my top spot, but yeah, the bear is on my list in general.
Also, when they find the video of the previous team. Oscar Isaac’s grin during ...THAT...was genuinely unsettling to me.

I’m gonna fight you partially on Queen.
Only partially cause I will agree that those two need to be pulled from the rotation, but there’s a lot of genuinely great tracks from them that don’t get anywhere near enough radio play.

Incidentally, I’m also that guy that finds it annoying how most radio stations never seem to…

The scariest part about all of that is still the moment when Cruz thought it would be a good PR move for him to try and own the gag and play into it.

As with so many things in his life, the end result was just incredibly sad in a cringe comedy sort of way.