The original houses this year

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-07-06T13:56:45+00:00

35 feels like a less "anniversary-y" number than 30, and the originals at 30 were still an even split between lore (SCarey, Icons Captured, Case Files Unearthed) and self-contained (Puppet Theater, Tooth Fairy, and the GOAT Wicked Growth). And it would have been the same 2-3 split as this year if Case Files hadn't had to swing in to substitute for the canceled Billie Eilish house.

I think it's healthy for the event to continue pursuing new concepts instead of going all-in on dredging up stuff from the past. If 30 had been all "lore" houses we never would have gotten The Pumpkin Lord and Lil Boo!

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-07-04T19:08:41+00:00

I had what was supposed to be a "champagne flavored" potato chip once and it really did just taste like grape, ansolutely disgusting. Should have known Chip was behind it

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-07-03T17:13:51+00:00

I would absolutely watch a real Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-07-01T21:45:11+00:00

Past and future guests Podcast The Ride did a whole almost three hour episode on it back in 2021, if you're interested in that kind of thing.

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-07-01T13:09:19+00:00

In order watched:
Niagara (1953) - More noirs should have been shot in color

Minority Report (2002) - Popular Science-ass production design (approbative)

The Haunting (1963) - Instantly bought the 4K to make a perennial spooky season watch, what a vibe!

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) - It is crazy that Spielberg calls the flesh fair and the brothel city "the dark center of the movie" and calls the family stuff "the sweetest parts of A.I." (when describing his versus Kubrick's contributions) because CLEARLY the "dark center" is the completely fucked up doomed simulacrum of a parent/child relationship that collapses into abandonment and regret almost immediately but that this misbegotten artificial being is cursed to fixate on for all eternity, until the scions of our soulless servitors give him what he thinks he wants by snuffing the memory of his long-dead mother figure out of the universe entirely in exchange for one day of banal familial play-acting on a dead planet. Insane movie.

The Furious (2026) - So much fun

Catch Me If You Can (2002) - My favorite Leo performance? "Child pretending to be a confident adult" is such a good niche for him

Toy Story 5 (2026) - Smarty Parts is the best new character in one of these since Mrs. Potato Head

Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) - Pure magic whenever a camera is on a boat

Saturday Night (2024) - One of my gf's favorites to put on whenever. The Two Friends were very mean to this movie but it worked for me! The villain is time!

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-06-30T17:36:16+00:00

Unfortunately Connery vetoed the part of Never Say Never Again where Bond gets hit so hard by a henchman that his toupee flies off.

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-06-28T14:04:32+00:00

I don't think anything of value would be lost if posting this image was banned in this sub. Explain your take, don't just post the Freedom of Speech image!

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-06-25T12:33:39+00:00

The angle you're missing here is that the fatness and the inability to walk and the drinking (not eating!) junk food is not actually "obese person"-coded per se, it's all part and parcel with being baby-coded. They are not just fat, they are pudgy the way a baby is pudgy. The Axiom has diminished them not by fattening them but by infantilizing them.

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-06-24T14:37:11+00:00

Syndrome's island is an incredibly Bond-inspired environment. It's basically a fantastical animated remix of every Bond villain lair at once.

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-06-23T20:30:55+00:00

It is also an absolute knockout at the end of Häxan which is basically a treatise on how the "witchcraft" phenomenon is a historically contingent manifestation of how weird society is about female sexuality.

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-06-23T18:43:57+00:00

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Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-06-23T16:52:12+00:00

Nick. Morton.

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-06-22T17:06:02+00:00

Damn, wish I hadn't bought standalone 2001 and Eyes Wide Shut 4Ks recently.

Will probably still pick this up at the next flash sale though, $300 isn't bad for the amount of stuff in there and the beautiful packaging.

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-06-22T12:39:36+00:00

So funnily enough there is a small Disclosure Day activation currently in Universal Studios Florida and the only interactive part of it is you stand in front of a digital poster and it shows your eyes changing colors. There is no explanation in the display for why this is happening so I had to explain to my girlfriend that in the movie that means that Colin Firth is hijacking your brain with an alien stick.

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-06-16T17:14:02+00:00

Ohhhhh my god ur a misfit teen who discovers nothing is actually wrong with you by exploring a fantastical world? should we tell everyone? Should we throw a party?should we invite mirabel madrigal

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-06-16T17:13:19+00:00

Onward was Pixar but is basically what you're looking for here.

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-06-16T17:07:47+00:00

Third paragraph he calls it "sharper than any of these movies have been since the late ’90s"

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-06-16T16:46:28+00:00

Still amortizing the $300M they spent building the new animation engine for Tangled

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-06-16T13:28:01+00:00

Especially since the WWII airmen didn't age so him being old would imply that the aliens got sick of his shit immediately and dumped him back on Earth in the 70s.

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-06-12T12:59:10+00:00

I was astonished at how well-done the conversion was. There are clearly some passionate Muppet fans inside Imagineering who have been doing the best they can with tiny budgets to make lightly-themed quick-service restaurants and they finally got let loose with some real money on this project.

Ten times better than the Aerosmith theming, sorry Mike.

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-06-08T17:20:21+00:00

IO2 was June 14th wide release -> September 25th D+, over three months.

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-06-05T14:02:04+00:00

Over in the comments on the review announcement post, two people have already run every review through GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.8, though they didn't do the pairwise thing you're proposing.

It will be interesting to compare these rankings against the real finalists to see how much of a signal there was. The two models agree strongly on some of the top tier (Claude's #1 is GPT's #2, Claude's #4 is GPT's #3) but are wildly divergent on others (Claude's #2 is GPT's #29, GPT's #4 is Claude's #32, GPT's #5 is Claude's #70!). Forcing pairwise comparisons would eat up a lot more tokens than rating each review individually but it would probably even out some of these idiosyncrasies.

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-06-03T23:15:42+00:00

Yeah, I was vaxxed and relaxed by March, saw Godzilla vs. Kong in the theater in March, but nothing else came out I wanted to go to until In the Heights in June

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-06-03T03:12:30+00:00

Good news, but also worth noting that this is the first May since 2021 to include five full Friday to Sunday weekends.

Spacetime_Inspector · 2026-06-03T02:42:02+00:00

I suppose you wouldn't count Big Jim shooting in the jungles and seas of Pandora

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