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Brevity, Lighting, and Torture in Star Trek: The Next Generation

A scene from a random episode I’d seen as a kid lingered with me for over 20 years. I was surprised to see that references to that scene are still in circulation today, and I finally went to the trouble to watch the episode in its entirety.

Iterations of Finding Nemo

Finding Nemo, Finding Nemo in Space, and Finding Nemo with Guns

Shows: Kobra Kai (Season 3)

Harder to Watch than a Speeding Punch to the Face

BOOKS AND MOVIES: POLLYANNA

It’s one of those books that will make you want to hug everybody you know.  And the movie is quite pleasant, too

Shows: Cobra Kai (Season 1 and 2)

“Cobra Kai”: Good or Bad? It’s kind of like that course on Nicholas Cage in Community1 — it’s complicated.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens — so bad that the actors were trying to get their characters killed off so that they wouldn’t have to be in any more sequels

Some have suggested that Carrie Fisher employed more dramatic methods to avoid the next movie…

BAD MOVIES: Star Wars VII – The Force Awakens

This is one of those movies that you try really hard to enjoy because you want to enjoy it.  And even if you left the theatre having had fun, you can’t help but admit to yourself that it was a terrible movie.  It relies heavily on pleasing the viewer through Nostalgia from the original trilogy;…

Bird Box: a great opening scene, and lots to argue about

It also gave us a great reason to reminisce about how terrible “The Happening” was…

Bird Box successfully uses involuntary suicide as a compelling plot element a decade after The Happening failed miserably attempting to do so

Bird Box: Unused Marketing Strategies

After-Movie-Conversations: The Huntsman: Winters War

Maybe it was a date, but above was the actual conversation I had with the girl after this movie.  Date or not, there was no follow-up. People really liked Charlize Theron’s Ravana in the Snow White and the Huntsman, but they were considerably less enthusiastic about Kristen Stewart’s Snow White.  Kind of amazing, then, that…

Judging Sequels: Norm Macdonald, Anna Kournikova, and The Matrix Trilogy

I remember, on more than one occassion, jumping to the defense of The Matrix: Reloaded.  Shitty title, yes, but people were talking about what a terrible movie it was — but it wasn’t terrible.  I liked to say that it was the Anna Kornikova of movies — Anna Kournikova was a great tennis player she…

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