I'm interested again, tho happy to let others have a shot.

/never needed to be first in line in kindergarten

"Eragon" is a perfectly good title for a movie.

"Seven" is a bad title for a movie.

Roger Ebert said that most movies could stand to lose 15 minutes, and I'm inclined to agree, at least with the recent crop of 150-200 min films.

However, the original article's recommendations were pretty bizarre. In many cases, you couldn't EDIT them down by 15 min. You'd have to rewrite them. But half of them need another rewrite anyway.

Matt Singer is terrific. He's half of Filmspotting SVU.

Fingers crossed that George Lucas produces and Willard Huyck writes and directs.

♫ Rocket Raccoon
Ain't no way to conceal it.
With a furry touch I love him apart. ♫

♫ (Call him) Rocket Raccoon
If it ain't funk, he don't feel it
And he shot an arrow straight to my heart ♫

♫ "Hyperloop breaks guitars" ♫

This was an interesting discussion. There are clearly people, particularly young people, who think that there should never be a time when they are not able to instantly communicate. That's probably going to overwhelm traditional taboos about such things at movie theaters, funerals, church, school, business meetings, and elsewhere, especially as technology makes it more and more possible to be connected during air travel and remote vacations and whatnot.

The concept of everyone in one place being truly present and in the moment is probably doomed.

/sound of cloister bells

Watching a movie in a hot tub is a stupid idea, altho it would at least eliminate the need to have to miss part of the movie to take a leak.

I completely agree. My guess is that Charlie Day came in with a lot of ideas to make his character genuinely funny, and GDT let him do them, so he nearly steals the movie. It doesn't feel "of a piece" with the rest of the film.

I really think that just a little bit of punch-up can change a lackluster script into a fun adventure, but it needs to be applied with an even hand. Imagine if the self-sacrifice scenes--which were great ideas with good actors--had had a little more punch behind them because we liked the characters more. As is was, it involved the two least emotionally accessible characters.