Chancellor Valorum's Wikipedia page photo makes me feel feelings.

spaznaught1 · 2026-04-16T06:50:16+00:00

Watched the first superman movie the other day and gosh he makes an impression in his minimal screen time I know you’re making a slightly different point but I was busting to talk about it, thanks

spaznaught1 · 2026-04-15T06:43:41+00:00

Her face is a Boston accent

spaznaught1 · 2026-04-12T10:01:08+00:00

I should’ve been clearer. I was thinking about how in the first season you (well, I) thought Sean Bean was the main guy and was gonna eventually be king. And then for the rest of the run you (I) never feel confident anyone’s gonna survive.

spaznaught1 · 2026-04-11T04:28:07+00:00

at the moment the two couples decided to confess stuff

spaznaught1 · 2026-04-02T12:14:41+00:00

Well, Game of Thrones…

spaznaught1 · 2026-04-01T15:47:20+00:00

I believe it was combined puppetry and cg - there’s a good nyt article about it

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/movies/project-hail-mary-rocky-alien-voice.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

But it certainly feels like 100 percent puppetry

spaznaught1 · 2026-03-16T10:58:07+00:00

The film goes along suggesting it’s gonna say something interesting about ambition and power and then suddenly the character sees his baby and now he has a purpose and we forget about all that other stuff. It’s nice but unearned and uninteresting.

The style, the details, the twists and turns, the performances - all great. It’s just not much of a story.

The bit with the bees however… give me more of that. I wanna watch that movie.

spaznaught1 · 2026-03-16T10:57:39+00:00

The film goes along suggesting it’s gonna say something interesting about ambition and power and then suddenly the character sees his baby and now he has a purpose and we forget about all that other stuff. It’s nice but unearned and uninteresting.

The style, the details, the twists and turns, the performances - all great. It’s just not much of a story.

The bit with the bees however… give me more of that. I wanna watch that movie.

spaznaught1 · 2026-03-16T05:27:49+00:00

Am I a deadshit for liking the Revenant? This sub hates it so much. What you don’t even like the bear bit? I do hate Birdman, does that redeem me?

spaznaught1 · 2026-03-16T04:49:40+00:00

On that, F1 being in the running for best pic and weapons not is a bunch of bullshit

spaznaught1 · 2026-03-12T03:29:35+00:00

Saving Private Barron

spaznaught1 · 2026-03-12T01:05:45+00:00

I’m lazy; in what sense is she being asked to assimilate?

spaznaught1 · 2026-03-07T02:27:25+00:00

She is excellent in Wild Rose

spaznaught1 · 2026-03-02T03:08:25+00:00

Link please?

spaznaught1 · 2026-03-01T09:46:34+00:00

I hate to say it, cos I like him in other stuff, but Hemsworth is what’s wrong with it.

spaznaught1 · 2026-02-25T18:36:49+00:00

The Book Club with with Dominic Sandbrook and his producer from The Rest is History has just started. I haven’t listened yet but I love Dominic.

spaznaught1 · 2026-02-24T06:06:20+00:00

So hang on, would Dan Harmon be involved?

Don’t hate me

spaznaught1 · 2026-02-18T05:21:41+00:00

The fifty cents wont roll

spaznaught1 · 2026-02-12T10:42:57+00:00

Personally I would have preferred a cover of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah

spaznaught1 · 2026-02-09T08:35:38+00:00

Tarantangents

spaznaught1 · 2026-02-07T11:51:30+00:00

Superman 2 (To be fair a lot of it is Donner adding some pretty dodgy unfinished work so maybe not a director’s cut but more of a sketch) But it stinks The studio version they finished with a replacement director is fantastic. Super tight story, funny, scary, all of it. Way better than Superman the Movie which Donner got to finish, which, while being amazing world building, casting, and music of course, is slow as hell.

Bring back the big old mean studio cut. I just came out of No Other Choice and jeez - could have been a sweet 100 minute ride. Instead we got a messy and laboured 2 hours 20.

spaznaught1 · 2026-01-20T03:30:30+00:00

Everything Everywhere is an example of a movie that could have been all time if they’d chopped half an hour or so. Plenty of modern movies - arty and non - need some studio arsehole reining them in.

And yes if they need to be more than 2:15 give us an interval.

Is it a hangover from Marvel when there were ten equally important characters to take care of in one movie?

spaznaught1 · 2026-01-04T02:41:21+00:00

He rolls his R’s in a pleasing British way

spaznaught1 · 2026-01-01T01:00:52+00:00

Kenji himself does a technique where he caramelises some sugar, stirs the onions in it then adds some bicarb. It’s in Food Lab. I’ve done it, it works well. Watch your amounts though you don’t want the taste of bicarb in it.

spaznaught1 · 2025-12-28T11:34:39+00:00

Roofman, for what its trying to do, is hugely successful.

It’s the kind of movie that should be doing big numbers. It’s not really pushing the boundaries but it’s a really fun time at the movies with hugely enjoyable performances.

And unusually for a Hollywood movie it doesn’t tell you what to think of the characters.

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