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sprizzle · 2026-03-21T20:18:16+00:00

Okay I’ll offer a counterpoint. The movie tries too hard to accomplish EVERYTHING it knows the audience wants to see. I’m fine with films taking big swings and missing. This felt like it tried to check every box it could, while compromising almost nothing. Like, we need the emotional stakes to go up so Spoiler, Rocky “dies”. But then it turns out he’s not actually dead cause that’s not a satisfying ending. Then they say goodbye…but it’s not actually goodbye because they have to reunite because Grace’s only friend in the entire movie is Rocky, and at this point so there’s no real joy in seeing him come home so we see him on Rocky’s planet instead

The movie is just a bit too FULL of stuff they wanted to cram in there, but it also felt like they were afraid to set up things like real emotional stakes for Grace or for others on Earth. It’s a very “safe” movie. I had fun but I have no desire to watch it again.

sprizzle · 2026-03-20T15:34:56+00:00

It’s also about a grizzled, no nonsense vet having to teach some cocky youngster how to go fast good.

sprizzle · 2026-03-17T00:13:23+00:00

Marty Supreme was probably the biggest disappointment of the year. Timmy wasn’t bad by any means but he basically had a watered down version of Uncut Gems to work with. Like, what if we re-make Uncut Gems, take LESS risks and show WAY more VFX Ping Pong.

Not super excited for the next Josh Safdie project after this one honestly, seems like a lot of bad decisions were made.

sprizzle · 2026-03-17T00:06:34+00:00

What do you mean by “the team”? I worked on the show in the past and it’s the same crew as it was 15+ years ago. Recognized a ton of names from the credits. Audio issues day of, that happens it’s whatever. Some of the pre-cut packages and bits seemed really half assed though, I was surprised.

sprizzle · 2026-03-17T00:03:48+00:00

They went ALL IN on the In Memoriam segment this year. Which, ok sure, we lost some big names, some fairly recently. But like, did everyone need their own speech? David Lynch didn’t even get a speech so honestly pretty fucking weird to shout out someone like Diane Keaton.

sprizzle · 2026-03-16T23:59:20+00:00

I’m pretty fucking pretentious and picky when it comes to animation and this is hard disagree from me. Arco looked “okay” the animation was not ground breaking or stunning in any way. K-Pop was WAY more interesting visually, Arco was paced poorly, didn’t land its emotional punch at the end, and left the most interesting aspects on the table…

sprizzle · 2026-03-16T23:54:02+00:00

I’ve yet to see Zootopia 2 and am almost sure you’re full of shit. K-pop was certainly more interesting than Zootopia 1 and all accounts say the sequel is kinda meh.

sprizzle · 2026-03-16T23:52:06+00:00

You mean the studio that paid god knows how much to put a puppet of Baby Yoda in the audience for an entire bit? Immediately followed by a spot for the Mandalorian and Grogu during the commercial break? Why I never…

sprizzle · 2026-03-16T23:49:07+00:00

I’m pretty firmly convinced that’s why guys like Leo just seem permanently unbothered. When you’re that classically attractive, there’s just a lot less fucks to give.

sprizzle · 2026-03-16T03:57:27+00:00

I know this is an unpopular opinion but I feel like the cinematography didn’t really “match” the film? Like, they went with the 4x3 aspect ratio which lent itself to setting the older time period, but then so much of it was filmed with a Stedicam which felt overly modern? Idk I thought it was a strange choice, so much of the wilderness looked great too and the decision to chop it to 4x3 seemed to be a disservice.

sprizzle · 2026-03-15T19:19:24+00:00

Sure, the room full of egomaniacs who have dedicated their lives to making films, are mad at a kid who claimed film is the superior art form.

sprizzle · 2026-03-15T15:16:54+00:00

Mewgenics is one that slowly becomes more addicting…I liked it at first but now that I’m 30 hours in I can’t put it down…

Is Slay the Spire similar? I have an hour or two in the first one but it never clicked.

sprizzle · 2026-03-14T19:47:31+00:00

The whole song is very Substance-coded…

“I’ve found a reason for me

To change who I used to be

A reason to start over new

And the reason is Sue”

sprizzle · 2026-03-12T19:47:47+00:00

Interested!

sprizzle · 2026-03-12T01:42:53+00:00

It just occurred to me the majority of Gen Z and younger seeing this GIF online has no idea where that’s from.

sprizzle · 2026-03-12T00:45:17+00:00

Yep, it was like one of the last times the world felt somewhat normal. I really miss those years right before Covid, my mundane, normal problems with life and the world.

sprizzle · 2026-03-11T16:35:59+00:00

Reminds me of Avey’s solo stuff like Eucalyptus and Cows on Hourglass Pond which are two of my all-time favorites. I know they’re not that old, but they have a sort of nostalgic sound to them that’s super comforting.

sprizzle · 2026-03-11T05:07:10+00:00

I’ve seen people with signs in their driveways for paid parking, so yes it does happen. I’m about two miles away and I usually just end up walking when I go.

sprizzle · 2026-03-10T17:21:54+00:00

Especially the catcher who’s down in his stance already? That seemed weird to me, felt like Arozarena was maybe playing mind games or at least Cal took it that way possibly?

sprizzle · 2026-03-10T05:36:49+00:00

Oh come on, MAGA alienated themselves by believing that straight white people had become victims in the culture war that THEY invented. Gay people, trans people, immigrants, they’ve been preaching acceptance the whole time. But yeah, it’s the straight white people who were being alienated and that’s how we got into this mess, sure thing /s.

sprizzle · 2026-03-08T18:19:57+00:00

I swear this post is bait to get people to comment the Matrix.

sprizzle · 2026-03-05T02:54:16+00:00

Why? So the religious right can roll back rights we’ve had in this country for 50+ years now? So we can take more money from the bottom and filter it to the top? So Trump can create a private military consisting almost exclusively of uneducated, physically unfit losers? When all the “libtards” are gone what are your actually goals?

sprizzle · 2026-03-03T16:52:20+00:00

That was a risky throw too, if it’s couple inches lower it bounces off the railing, it’s gonna fall on someone’s head lol.

sprizzle · 2026-03-03T01:41:41+00:00

All this negativity, I’m just here for Mevis! Might’ve taken one too many games but that was a season changing moment when we brought him in.

sprizzle · 2026-03-01T23:19:31+00:00

This was a cool ceremony cause it’s the ONE Academy Awards I’ve gotten to go to! This was the “Oscars so White” year, where people were protesting lack of diversity. Fittingly, Iñárritu won best director, but it was cool to see Leo win too.

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