‘Necessary’? Probably not, but I had a lot of fun watching it.

Has it been definitively decided exactly when 2020 jumped the shark?

“So Debbie, what first attracted you to the millionaire, Paul Daniels.”

Fuck, yeah. God, I’m a mess by the end of that film.

I like it well enough, but I feel it should do a Marvel Team-Up with “Pearl’s a Singer”.

Well, thanks Fauci. Now a bunch of white racists are going to refuse to take it.

That was my immediate thought. It seems unlikely, but it could be a double-bluff (or something) I guess?

The trouble with OftP is that it’s pretty incomprehensible as a book, and unintelligible as a movie unless you’ve read the book. Admittedly, that last point is probably a bit moot.
Unlike LotR, the only people attending these movies who hadn’t read the books were probably there unwillingly.

Fun-fact, around the time of the third or fourth film, my wife attended a party, which she knew would include Rickman. The kids begged her for autographs, so she took along a couple of photos of him as Snape, and shyly presented them to him.

And they’re fabulous!

This film should have got a B.

For the supposedly freedom-loving world’s greatest democracy (tm), the US is really fucked up. How do you put up with it? You know it doesn’t have to be this way?

“Paronnaud”
Is that a real name? Anyway, it’s great either way.

It’s not like it’s complicated. Balancing risk and reward is something everyone of us does multiple times a day. I go to the shops, despite the risk of being run over. I don’t jump from high windows, despite it being the quickest way to get to the ground.

Personally, if I was under 35, I probably wouldn’t sign up for…

“It’s all a lie and the president knows this and he doesn’t care.”

Kind of ironic, given her character in the MCU.

That’s Souls (and BB). Personally, I think it’s part of the fun.

I picked up BB when it was free on PSN a while back, liked the look, but could not get anywhere and was constantly either confused or being killed. I put it aside... but it kept niggling at me. Not just “I can beat this”, but “that was sort-of intriguing”. Short version, I read/watched some beginner’s tips, and I’m now…

And in today’s “Christ, Republicans are dumb”, Ron Johnson wants to see Barr’s lack of evidence.