May 17 2011
CNN’s Quote of the Day
“Watermelons do not burst only from rainfall.” Memo to self: Don’t buy any Chinese watermelons.
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- Suicide Squad sequel: 2.5 stars out of 5, far improved over original–There’s intense violence but not a lot of feeling here. It’s not a very exciting movie. But it’s functional. It’s frequently tedious but rarely boring. Only the political sermons and Weasel are viciously bad. It’s definitely a huge improvement over the first movie. –Most of what sucked about Suicide Squad 1 was an overfocus on […]
- Hour 1 of Justice League’s Snyder Cut, Scene By Scene1:30 – 6:55: Cyborg sees his Mother Box acting up. Then Mera sees her Mother box acting up. Then Amazon guards see their Mother Box acting up. Also there’s a Lex Luthor flashback where the computer shows him that Mother Boxes are plot relevant in case you missed that. PS: In the first 8 minutes […]
- 2020: Even Wonder Woman Lets Us Down–Wonder Woman 1984 is not nearly as good at the original. Pluses: the cast is still very charming, and a few of the fight scenes are effective. I did actually like most of the first hour of the movie. –Setting: In the original Wonder Woman, the WWI setting contributes to a hard bleakness which effectively […]
- Captain Marvel Review: 1.5 Stars Out of 51. I don’t know where to start with Captain Marvel. So many things went so wildly wrong that we’d need a presidential commission to get to the bottom of it. It’s like the Chernobyl of superhero movies. 2. If at any point you feel like your action movie would benefit from a character whose main […]
- Spider-Man: Far From Home Review (1 star out of 5)1. This version of Spider-Man is a useless toolbox who actively avoids doing interesting things, and what he does attempt is usually wimpy and/or incompetent. 2. Unlike most main characters, his choices don’t matter much. For example, he chooses to leave his supersuit at home (but his aunt sneaks it in anyway) and he tries […]
- Rotten Tomatoes Score Dataset UpdatedWe’re up to 72 superhero movies since 2000 (current as of November 2017). You can download the full data here. Some observations: R movies are making up the quality gap with PG-13 movies. Superhero movies are improving. Over the last 5 years (2013-2017), the average superhero movie is averaging 70% on Rotten Tomatoes, up […]
- The Batman: what were they thinking (1.5 stars out of 5)
Clearly, Gallagher has something to do with this. 🙂
Hahahaha, what the hell? CNN, you never fail to amuse me.
Sometimes I wonder why humans are at the top of the food chain…
Ability to create, nothing, some stuff can run on water. Or fly. Or has giant claws. Or moves faster than a sports car.
…Why again are we up here?
– Wings
Because cats haven’t figured out how to make exploding watermelons. (Yet).
Because we’ve learned how to hide and let them fight it out. Then we kill the wounded animal and pretend that we’re awesome. It’s a good system.
The ReTARDISed Whovian
You sold us that story!
I know! And CNN never fails to amuse me with its quality news coverage and interesting articles. (shifty eyes)
(I’m on my iPod so my name doesn’t have its usual link to my TVTropes page.)
Although cats have figured out how to use sniper rifles, they are intimidated by machines, which means they have trouble making rifles on their own. Therefore, safe gun ownership is particularly crucial when cats are about.
That is both the most awesome and the most terrifying picture ever.