Funny, I just thought “My dad would get a real kick out of these.”

On a dog.

Part of me wonders if it’s an attempt to tank the SEO, so people can’t search for or news or easily talk about the site anymore - because it’s been nothing but bad.

Ahh, I see. They couldn’t get their shit together for April, and are pulling this out now as an attempt to placate their users.

Yes, movie trailers are ads. Film at eleven.

It has one of the best final shots I’ve seen in a film since The Fabelmans. I laughed loudly at that. And honestly the rest of it was super fun. The big battle scene was a blast, and has some incredibly innovative stuff in it.

No, this is Patrick.

I watched the first two episodes, concluded it was even worse than the book, which was already a tropey mishmash of poor-man’s Tolkien ideas, and decided I had better things to do.

So I had just seen Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning over the weekend, and had to laugh when the opening sequence of this one had almost the same action scene on top of a train going through a tunnel. And then also had a chase scene through narrow alleyways in a comically tiny vehicle.

Don’t get me wrong, the action sequences were well-executed, but they felt somehow a bit generic, as if you could paste them into almost any action movie without losing a beat, and those two were case in point. I did love the dynamics of the tuktuk chase, but as a focus for the characters it fell a tad short.

That’s great! I’ve been watching since I noticed the berries so ripe, and I actually saw a red-headed finch in the yard today for the first time in years, so hope isn’t lost.

Man, I saw Dial of Destiny last night and I felt like it used its runtime well. Could’ve done without yet another train fight, and the chase sequences might’ve been cut down a bit, but the only thing that felt saggy about this movie was Harrison Ford’s skin.

That has got to be literally older than the internet. I swear I remember seeing it hanging in my grandpa’s garage when I was a kid, and it was already yellowed by then.

You trying to read the text panel.

That’s what Louis C.K. thought.

This and The Sixth Sense are among the few movies that are better on rewatch because you know the twist but the characters don’t.

I’ve watched it a handful of times and catch something new every time.

Zero. That’s the really weird part.

Because it’s barely a concern in the movie. It’s little more than a Macguffin to raise the stakes. That’s honestly my biggest problem with it. They set up this compelling concept of an AI manipulating information and then the most they ever do with it is have it hijack a walkie talkie. I loved how the intelligence agencies were all switching everything to analogue, but none of that ever really makes any difference to the story at all.

Oh shit, it’s Cohen the Barbarian.

I would advocate for the return of intermissions! Theater chains would love it, because it would mean more concessions.