I also liked & wrote about GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE and its cathartically anti-A.I. (and in one subplot, pitch black) sensibility. decider.com/2026/02/13/g...

100%. There's always been a certain number of people who feel totally affronted by the idea that they'd spend two hours watching something they didn't much like, which is understandable enough but I feel like it's widened to feeling affronted by stuff that's not like, Quality Maxxed

They're just the slashers you haven't met.

Yeah, I liked it a lot and I'm lukewarm on several of his biggest movies!

On average, I like Trier's movies a lot more than the other two, so it stuck out to me that this was on the weaker end of his spectrum. I know some obviously very much feel differently but I'm a bit baffled!

In general this season I feel like Trier has largely gotten The Pass while Zhao and del Toro have gotten The Crackdown. Vaguely inexplicable how those are doled out but I guess probably once you win an Oscar you get The Crackdown.

I don't know how good of a friend I am overall but I am definitely good at taking my friends to see ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER in IMAX

Of course! The Avatar movies basically prepped her for it.

Thought about trying to sell the kiddo on this today but ultimately felt like a stretch. Might try LA LA LAND a few weeks hence (my cancelation imminent)

hahaha fuck yeah Islands!!!

The thing is they would probably both be fine, we just don't personally like them!

And there aren't any fucking movies where it's all Muppets and there's just one human. You may think of MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL that way but it is not how the movie actually is! And if it were, it would be an extreme outlier! That's not what Muppet movies are like!!! Nor should they be!!!!

Literally almost anyone can host The Muppet Show, no one sorts old Muppet Show episodes by "oh this host was really bad, but then this one was really good," they all just come on and do Muppet segments and everyone for the most part is happy