Y’know. For all the overexposure Wolverine has had in film over the decades, they’ve only done the middle-finger blade joke once, at that beginning. I’m not saying they should do it again. Just surprising that they haven’t, is all.

I think a large portion of people who are generally-to-enthusiastically pro-ai think of it as no different than comment sections, random forums, and other low-barrier internet content. Things they see as such low-quality slop that the internet facelessly churns out anyway.

Part of me loves the idea of going back to college and learn something in a completely different field of academia. The other part is desperately trying to remind me how much we hate listening to lectures 90% of the time, even on a subject we like.

This is a really strong line up. Every one of them would make an excellent James Bond. But can we consider someone who hasn’t already played him?

So the theory goes that Blofeld is actually the cat and he just possesses various humans. And that’s why so many different actors have played James Bond.

I could be wrong about this, but I feel like I’ve been noticing more movies that take place in the present, but inexplicably feature a lot of older fashions, along with older technology and old buildings. I want to call them post-period pieces.

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only: Star Trek (multiple) Twilight Zone Community Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Ash vs Evil Dead Futurama BSG Batman 66/TAS Mission Impossible The Slayers Red Dwarf Columbo MST3K Bob’s Burgers Lost

“I don’t care what anyone says: I like that movie.”

If I’m gonna keep getting scam loan approvals, the very least they can do is up the offer amount. Make me feel like I’m worth getting scammed.

Sometimes you have to stare into the void to assure yourself that it’s there and you aren’t.

What is the opposite of a special interest? Not necessarily something you hate to think about or enjoy thinking about how much you hate it. Something your brain immediately bounces off of no matter how earnest your attempt is.

This may sound like a dumb question, but does Neon Genesis hold up? Like for someone who’s watched some anime, but not a lot and has nothing against hand-drawn animation.

I’ve been awfully sick all day and my cat has been unusually affectionate. It’s been very therapeutic and only occasionally undermined by the insidious thought that he thinks I’m dying.

I watched Weapons (2025) (It’s good. Go watch it.) but I’m so glad that the movie was spoiled for me. Among many others, this is a good example of a movie that still works if you know everything, but you’ll never have the experience of not knowing it while watching if you are spoiled.

I couldn’t finish No Time to Die. Again. I just need to accept that, no matter how good so many individual elements are, the movie itself is far less than the sum of its parts.

What is your career goal? To cosplay as a Starfleet officer, but in regular work clothes and doing regular work, and no one would know the difference.

It sucks when your ADHD and ASD are fighting with each other. There’s always the usual endless negotiations and jockeying for the steering wheel, but then you get the point where both are just all-out angry at each other. And you’d be amazed how mean they get. Guys, c’mon. It’s just a sandwich.

I appreciate that one is still considered a Final Girl even if she doesn’t survive in the end or in the sequels. That just seems like a needlessly petty qualifier that we could’ve spent ages debating, but didn’t.

You know it’s a good dream when almost every sentence summarizing it involves the phrase “for some reason.”

“Our latest challenge was to watch 10 AI movies, so we can tell you the best, the worst, and what lessons we learned about the potential of AI. And here are our results! We… we gave up and went home.”

Ah, Tubi, my dear good and trusted friend. You’re one of the good ones. What news do you have for me today? (…) I knew it! I always knew you were one of them! Take off that mask and tell me where the rest of the bodies are buried.

If you’re asking why X is in the Mario movie, it’s because A) Little kids will enjoy it, even when they don’t get the reference, and B) so adults/fans get a little boost from seeing something they recognize. In. That. Order.

I’ve had to give myself the “you wouldn’t have liked that job anyway” speech quite a few times in my life (as we all have). And that very well may be true in this situation. There were certainly a lot of things I wasn’t looking forward to.

So I’m a day late on this, but that’s pretty good for me jumping on an internet trend. I’ve been building up the middle portion of the bell curve.

Nothing ruins my executive function more than being punished for being proactive. That’s what I get for planning ahead. Should’ve ignored the problem until it solved itself. I’m learning all the wrong lessons this morning.

This isn’t always the best choice, but I do love the Hollywood shorthand style of characters saying the bare minimum in a couple of short sentences that immediately tells us all we need to know through implication. Why tell the full story when you can say, “he pulled a gun on me, but I shot first”?

I want to say that my love of camp comes from my years as a theater kid, but if I don’t give the majority of credit to Batman ‘66, I’d be lying.

It’s rather disappointing that the reality of human cloning would be so much less narratively interesting than how it’s usually portrayed in sci-fi. It almost has to involve age acceleration and/or genetic memories or at the very least some genetic modification.

In my ideal version of Batman, Alfred is just a butler. He has no special skills at espionage, computers, or anything Batman-centric. His job is to maintain the house and its staff. He regularly covers for Bruce, provides him resources, and is at least nominally interested in Batman’s current plans.

I’m so glad that Matthew Lillard is having something of a career revival moment now. If for no other reason than for me to get over my completely off-base read of him as a person. I was so unjustifiably wrong.

On the bright side, by the time Shang Chi 2 will be released, it’ll be a legacy sequel.

No Time to Die is 2 good Bond films Tuvix-ed together, but with too much extra material and several vital organs missing.

I have noticed that if I fall off of a show (even one that isn’t that bad) it’s usually at the Flashback episode. I know you want to backfill the world building and set up (or deliver) some twist, but boy howdy does it feel like we’re stopping the ride to look for someone’s contact.

I want to propose the concept of the Anti-Mystery Box. This is similar to the Mystery Box, but instead of drawing your attention to mysteries that may or may not be figured out by the author, it is a central piece of plot information withheld without cluing the audience in that it’s there.

For those where this happens. #DaylightSavings

So much of franchises branching out to new things is them taking on elements of other genres and franchises. Which is not necessarily a bad thing, but it occupies an interesting area of being innovative within the franchise but risking the accusation of just repeating what’s been done elsewhere.

Of all things to get stuck in my head, I wasn’t expecting the theme song of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.

I shouldn’t be the one wondering what happened to romance subplots. I have a sneaky suspicion that a lot of movies and shows have become very deliberately about family, so they can avoid selling the audience on a romantic or sexual relationship forming or developing.

For just an hour? My follower(s) has a life, thank you very much.

After almost a full week, I’m cautiously relieved to report that my poor sick kitty is starting to feel better and act more like his normal self.

If your non-Joker Batman villain isn’t chewing the scenery, then what are we even doing here?

People really need to learn the difference between what is annoying and what is morally bad. There are also degrees of each, but let’s just start with hammering that concept into stone before we move on. Things are not morally bad because they are annoying.

I’m not bad at video games. It’s just that my fingers panic and forget what buttons to push. It’s not me, I swear!

Distant cousin: noun. Your mother’s sister’s second son who seems to be thinking about something else.

I really need a term to describe a show as looking cheap, but as a positive. This looks economical and sustainable, and that has a charming quality that maybe even fits thematically. But it does not look bad, even though one can imagine the same show with much higher production values.

Song stuck in my head again. I didn’t want to listen to it. Tried to drown it out with headphones at the time. Now it’s stuck there and I hate it. I don’t always feel autistic loathing, but until this infernal mental record stops spinning, that benign popular artist is on my s*** list.

Sometimes all my brain can do is free association and question whether it’s adding anything to the conversation.

This is the second movie I've seen in recent memory where the hook, the main selling point, the inciting incident, the reason for the movie's title comes half way into the movie. Just long enough to make me wonder if I had the wrong movie. Or maybe the whole movie is to set that up as the ending.

I do think people need to be reminded that younger audiences, as a demographic, do not have the same history and experiences as older audiences. Nor will they “remember” what kids their age 10 years ago experienced. Ten year olds won’t remember that thing other 10 years ago fell for 10 years ago.