“... The Bear, which is first and foremost a show about male intimacy...”

Character driven, yes.

This season is just... So meandering. It would be different if the character development and character interactions/dialogue were more compelling. Some great episodes! It’s not a bad show!

People go through shit and and grow, or don’t grow, as individuals and in their relationships to each other whilst trying to make it in an extremely cutthroat industry. That’s what happens. That kinda thing can be extremely compelling if the characters and situations are well-written, which IMO they are. This episode…

Plot doesn’t have to be king, but it does have to be queen, or at least a jack.

Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)-Great movie. As said in the article, it is perfect. Even it’s biggest flaw (that you could take Indiana Jones out of the movie and it wouldn’t affect the outcome) isn’t that bad and easily ignorable. It’s just fan-fucking-tastic. 10/10

You know what? My wife and I (middle aged folks who saw Raiders (not together) when we were kids) went to see Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny in the cinema and came out of it thinking, “That was a fun action/adventure movie” and that it was nice that they didn’t shy away from the fact that Indy (and Ford) are…

I think Dial of Destiny is an okay Indy movie with some really smart twists and a fantastic ending that paid off a thoughtful and relatable contemporary angst that seems to translate well across generations. If anything, it was saved by taking the time to become a character piece at the end and once it got bored with…

Thank you for gifting the world with “the grounded realism of face-melting ghosts” and reviving this feature!

Crystal Skull did $300 million domestic in 2008 — it made about the same as Iron Man — so I’d say there was a fair amount of demand there. It certainly wasn’t because there was wildly positive buzz about the movie (though I do think the “people hate this one” generalization is a total internet-era exaggeration).

Maybe…

I still think of him as Enrique from “Oz”.

I think Short Round benefited from Willie being insufferable. Replace her with Marion and SR is going to be a more conventionally irritation kid sidekick.

I don’t think that the Everything Everywhere All At Once-sparked Ke Huy Quanissance had happened before Dial of Destiny had really gotten into pre-production.

One more thing: I have to take every opportunity to point out that one of the last things Jim Henson’s version of Kermit did (quite possibly the VERY last thing he shot) was kill a Nazi.

I love Temple of Doom, I really do. It succeeds wonderfully at being the literal roller coaster ride it’s intended to be. And it accomplishes the impossible by having its awkwardly introduced cute kid be not only non-annoying, but a great character you want to know more about and spend time with. But I like dialogue.…

I actually liked Dial of Destiny a lot more than I was expecting, but I do have two major issues with it:

This is the stupidest non story of the year. Jetlagged guy with a stutter acts like jetlagged guy with a stutter during a debate with a 34-count convicted felon serial sexual predator who has declared he intends to be a dictator and replace all remaining government officials with his hand-picked cronies, and this…

It works though. People have already forgotten the downright all-time historic embarrassment that was the GOP House Follies last year, and are now focused on Joe having a bad night in front of the cameras.

“wanted to pay it forward”

And there’s no doubt Trump will give Bibi carte blanche in Gaza.