Wait, it doesn’t?

As mentioned above, the police officers were given rations to be kept alive to see the city crumble. Gordon ‘stayed dead’ for the time being to keep the Joker away from his family. Why he suddenly turned into a stunt racer in that time, though .. Also, I get it’s still a silly movie, but in TDK, I’ll go with Roger…

Who’s the top earner of 2020 Cameo appearances? That’s right, Mom. Your boy, Kevin Malone.

Even then, is it fair for us to discern? It’s still work. This past year, a friend of mine got Michael Rapaport to do a birthday Cameo for her spouse. He was hilarious, and attentive to the point that it was pass-around-the-office funny to anyone who was friends with either of them. It was a small gig, but he took it…

Scrantonicity II. Not Scranconicity, who he is no longer affiliated with.

I know Rowan Atkinson has a sizeable repertoire outside of Mr. Bean, but watching him tear down a house in pursuit of a bee is a perfect Christmas palate cleanser for this year.

I definitely respect him as a unique director. A Scanner Darkly was interesting as well, but I probably prefer the vignette style of Waking Life. Spoiler from the future, though, as both contain Alex Jones. I just rewatched his WL speech, and divorced from most of the Alex Jones that would come to be, it’s actually a…

I was born in 1985, and found Harry Potter to be a phenomenon at the time similar to Pokemon, in that I was exactly a grade older than the kids who were into both. As I got older, I found there was a lot of merit to Harry Potter, but I missed the boat of enthusiasm by exactly one year. 

That was .. really well done. Thanks for that!

In terms of Rise Of Skywalker, it’s bad depending on what you want out of it. It’s essentially (kind of) a retread of a Return of the Jedi just as The Force Awakens was of the original. If you have the nostalgic association with RoTJ that I do, and realize that no Star Wars film will ever bring back your childhood,…

Has anyone ever commented retroactively on that in the years since. I’m Canadian, and I remember even as a teenager thinking that was strange and borderline insulting.

Big fan, and Rest In Peace, but Ebert had some gross observations over the years. If I recall, when Reese Witherspoon had appeared topless in a movie, after years of being vocally against the idea that she seemingly was supposed to for some reason, Ebert took special enthusastic note of it, almost to say “finally”.…

Waking Life was perfect for 18-year-old me. I’m not sure how I’d fare with it as an adult, but you were a full sophist, then, if you were aware of it and into it.

Amazingly, the buzz around FoTR left me completely unfazed, and I didn’t get to see it in theatres for that reason. My family convinced me to watch it with them (on VHS!!) and I remember loving it right away, all the way to ending with most of the theatre sitting through the entirety of the credits to RoTK (and if…

Have to disagree, there. Setting Meri and Pippin aside (who I thought carried themselves well, throughout), I thought Sean Astin was robbed of a Best Supporting nomination for RoTK, along with Andy Serkis.

The movies are good enough to sustain this and then some, but Orlando Bloom as Legolas is as one-note as it gets. I can’t think of any other bad performances, though I see Viggo Mortensen as more of a workhorse actor (well-earned) than someone wth a lot of range.

I feel like Fellowship was the strongest because it felt the most like a Tolkien movie, divorced from (but of course because of) the production around it. A rather sweet irony of the entire production is that the closeness of the entire cast and crew - the once-in-a-lifetime bonding experience in New Zealand over two…

Also, it makes a bit more sense than ‘Iceland Is Reeking Cock’, which someone told me once. I mean, sure, I get it, but.

Yes. Russell Crowe isn’t always readily comprehensible, so that makes sense. Thank you! Finally.

To this day, even though I see it used here, I have no idea what IIRC stands for. I’m aware that I can just look it up, but to be honest, it’s been so long that at this point I sort of enjoy the guessing game of waiting for the lightbulb to (finally) appear.