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Correction: Members were rightly pissed at one particular mod, who is long gone now. That's a coincidence, of course.

Oh, man, that trailer. Anytime Keanu kicks that much ass I'm there opening night. Fishburne, McShane and Leguizamo are added bonuses.

The NSA doesn't have to resort to low-tech intel gathering like this. Their spy satellites can track us through the microchips we get implanted with every vaccination from birth onward. Not to mention the microwave dishes that read our thoughts.

RT has been mentioned in TV spots for more than a few films over the last two years, too. Studios will use any ploy to convince the audience that their films are good.

The movie as a whole didn't get other nods but JLaw's nomination for a poorly-received film stands as proof that the Academy went for the bait as always.

Joy took a Lifetime (TV) Movie concept and tried to turn it into a theatrical dramedy. (God, I hate that word!) It was a JLaw star vehicle built to bait Oscars. Will the Academy ever tire of swallowing the same wretched bait every year, no matter how shoddily churned out?

Loved Blade Runner. The teaser is good, maybe good enough to entice other people to see it with me when it comes out. I do wish that Sir Ridley were directing it, though. Blade Runner is his best work and it's a shame that he's not able to direct the sequel. It's disappointing that he is doing the Alien movie instead, but oh well. As an aside, it's hilarious that the original was set in the far-off year 2019. It always amuses me to compare reality to whatever dystopian future Hollywood and sci-fi writers can dream up. The vision of a perpetually dark, rainy LA, its streets crowded with ramshackle dives and downtrodden people is quite evocative but completely at odds with the current day.

The Thin Man films are absolute classics. William Powell and Myrna Loy in the lead roles had the sort of chemistry that most screen couples can only dream of. Depp, with all of his weird tics and dependence on bizarre makeup, isn't at all suited to play Nick Charles.

Peter looks perfect! Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit stories were my first favorite books when I was three. I'll have to borrow my friends' kids and see this when it comes out.

Didn't everyone? Edit: Unless they were born by caesarean.

Marvel vs. DC has nothing on Avatar crazies vs. Star Wars loonies. Besides, the Universal Monsters are the greatest franchise ever. That's a fact.

Maryland: One of the top 5 states in both cursing and courteousness. We're fucking nice here, hon! Oh My, Ohio! Five States Named 'Most Likely To Curse'

There's nothing more futile than Star Wars nerds arguing about force sensitivity and power levels.

The trailer was meh for me but Schumer's fans likely ate it up. The end was funny, though, in the cringy-est way possible. Crude humor is too *ahem* crude for me, which is how I know it will be a hit with everyone else.

Did you see Neeson on Stephen Colbert's show last night? It opened with Neeson playing the most menacing Santa ever. "I see you...when you're sleeping. Do you understand what that means?" Not a direct quote but it gets the spirit.

Based on the loonie raving about Fury Road's box office here I had assumed that it made much more than it did.

That explains the gif, then.

Well, I definitely thought it would be bad as soon as I saw the "romcom in space" trailer. People gushed so much about how great they knew it would be that I simply read comments and waited to see if the reaction to the film would bear out my assessment.

Yeah, because all Black people look alike.

Things that could out-act Charlie Hunnam:

Kikuchi was only effective when the script called for Mako to lapse into Japanese. Working opposite Idris Elba seemed to help her a little, too. Otherwise she was as lifeless as Hunnam. The damn bulldog gave a better performance that the two leads. Had del Toro made Stacker the true center of the movie and relegated the others to minor/supporting status, Elba might have salvaged it. The visuals alone weren't enough to save it, though, murky and meaningless as those were.

Hunnam gave a horrid performance in PR, one that was matched in awfulness by Rinko Kikuchi. His narration in the beginning of the movie was wretched, though the turgid dialogue did nothing to help. Hunnam and Kikuchi had no chemistry and neither brought enough charisma to their roles generate any emotional investment. It's no surprise that they are not coming back for the sequel and no loss.

There is also the chance that Blucahontas 2 falls afoul of China's rather arcane scheduling rules and gets an unfavorable release date as well as finds itself held strictly to the 3-week limit. It's hard to predict what will happen there.

If ever terrorists try to firebomb your house in the middle of the night I hope you will respond with compassionate understanding of the psychological and sociological factors that drove them to such extremes of violence. That should help you to cope with the decades of nightmares and flashbacks you will have to live with.