I shrugged 37 times, almost in a row
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I will stab anyone who didnāt like Gravity.
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Then fall, Caesar.
I didnāt dislike it, I was both entertained and annoyed by it. It could have been about something, but it wasnāt? Maybe I missed it.
I thought Interstellar was great. I guess maybe having kids makes it more moving.
The whole thing with Affleckās character was kind of pointless, though.
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Clever girl heading that joke off at the passƩ
Interstellar couldāve been great, it was too long and too sappy. Emotionally overwrought and narratively undercooked. Gravity was good, but the only thing I didnāt see coming was Bullock getting the idea for how to escape from Ghost George Clooney because how do you see something that dumb coming?
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If thereās ever a segue for my āso, um, finally watched Parasite after the awards win and, uh, er, itās not very goodā take itās right here.
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Yeah I will still watch Crouching Tiger when it pops up on HBO.
Yeah, I mean the only reason she was able to save the world is because of the stupid vapid overblown love she had for her daughter who died way too soon, fuck that, more explosions before Iāll give it a thumbs up.
MURPH
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What on Murph 
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A terrific summation:
Itās Alien for short attention spans, Arrival for non-pacifists, with some remnant of ambition toward something headier. On that count, it falls short, but as a final-girl structured horror film, it has plenty of imaginative moments.
I watched this trying to figure out why it didnāt resonate with audiences. Itās an effective horror piece, but the opening just doesnāt work. Maybe if it had come out in the 1950s, audiences might have bought into the awe and wonder the characters feel at finding this alien life, but weāve seen this movie so many timesāhell, we all saw the TRAILER promising this is a horror movie. So instead, we spend forty minutes waiting for the real movie to start.
The movie is structured so that the horror pays off a false sense of hopeābut no hope, no payoff. And the audience doesnāt for a second think this alien will do anything but find inventive ways to kill everything in its path.
So it loses a lot for failing to create any emotional or thematic groundingābut as a horror movie, itās fine. Some would say the nihilism was the point.
C+
I definitely liked it. It was hard to figure out why I didnāt REALLY like it or why I donāt remember much of it. I mean, itās a solid space horror flick. Probably didnāt resonate because thereās no new ground explored.
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Are there any True Lies fans with us tonight?
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Comparing Life to Alien is just blasphemy. We donāt care about the characters, thereās no sense of style. Ending is kinda fun but itās just a B sci-fi movie. I enjoyed it for what it is but itās not great sci-fi.
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Ldo, thatās like asking if Tom Arnold likes cocaine.
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You never know!
I should have known. How long since your last viewing? Iām rewatching it right now after a while. At least a year. Bill Paxton GOAT in this. Heās delighted to play the buffoon.
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Been awhile actually, but I check in on clips on youtube from time to time. Was watching some JLC web thing and she said she practiced the tango so much for the final scene that when she did the move to fall to the floor she couldnāt get back up. Bill Paxton fucking GOAT, rip.
LOLLLLL I forgot about that. Cool that she went with it and they kept that take. She was so funny throughout.
Agreed about Bill Paxton. Ah, I miss his performances. He was still GOATING it up as recently as Nightcrawler. Kind of insane how much range he had.
I gotta rewatch Edge of Tomorrow again just for his performance.
Iām at the part where Tom is begging Arnie not to use black ops agents to put down surveillance on JLC.
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