I like Prometheus, myself, but I can't explain it either.

Fine, fine.

I'mma go j'accuse someone else, though.

*wanders off*

EDIT: Oh, and BDA, you might wanna see if you like what happens when you put a white stroke around the cartoon guy (particularly his hair) where he overlaps the outer ring.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

I guess I've just had this movie in my head wrong, because I thought this would be a War of the Worlds-type storyline, and boy is it cooler than that. I haven't seen a movie dive into the plot this quickly since Cronenberg's The Fly — "'what have I been working on?' Why don't I show you my lab!" — and it proceeds to stay interesting for the whole damn time after that. I liked it a lot. Klaatu barada nikto.

Go get 'em. Hell, post about all of them, make a thing of it.

That was delightful.

Just looked through the top 300 for 2016 on Box Office Mojo, these are all the movies I've seen. (In the order in which they appear in the box office listing, incidentally.)

Finding Dory

I thought things got to be a bit much with the truck (highlight to read), but otherwise this was a lovely way to bleed a sequel out of that stone. Not as successful, for me, as Monster University — that one seemed a bit more cohesive — but still very solid and full of merit. I think I saw this one twice, actually.

The Secret Life of Pets

Don't remember much about it, but I enjoyed it. I recall enjoying the animation in particular in a few places and thinking Kevin Hart was funny.

The Jungle Book

Don't remember much about this one, either, but also that I liked it. I recall thinking they somehow managed to get to "The Bear Necessities" and have that make sense in context, so, go team.

Deadpool

Amusing.

Zootopia

At first I about went insane trying to figure out the goddamned metaphor, then I just let go of all that and tried to pretend it wasn't a confused metaphor and was simply the telling of a story. Awesome characters.

Moana

Loved it. Super-loved it. I for one welcome the new president of musicals.

Sully

I mean, yeah, everything that doesn't take place in a plane is a little latter-day-Clint-Eastwood-y, but the plane stuff is gold, and Tom Hanks somehow manages to look like someone he doesn't look like.

Deepwater Horizon

Tense as hell, interesting, worth watching. That said, between this and Sully and the trailer I saw for Berg's Boston Marathon movie, I think we might risk getting a bit "three years ago"d out.

Kubo and the Two Strings

This movie is a work of art and the animators are amazing. Also, I finally gave up and rage-quit the thing about forty minutes in. Fuck this movie.

The Nice Guys

This was my favorite movie of 2016 until January 1st 2017, when I saw "Lion," and then it became a tie. Seriously, if you haven't seen The Nice Guys (especially if you like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), get on that shit now. I'm not sure when Ryan Gosling became completely fantastic, but he's on another level in this movie. Russel Crowe too.

La La Land

As mentioned, I liked this movie in the theater a lot less than I like it on paper. Less than the sum of its parts for me.

Hell or High Water

Saw this two days ago, already can't remember anything about it.

Fences

I saw this one (as I saw most of these) without knowing anything about it, and my experience with it changed as context was added after. At first I thought it was an interesting and refreshingly restrained bauble of a character study, and that even though Denzel got carried away a few times and the director probably should have reeled him in more, overall the movie was a solid piece of work. But then I found out it was originally a play, so all of the credit I was giving it for being restrained goes out the window, and then I found out Denzel directed it, so all of the "oh well" I was aiming at the director's lack of control over the lead actor multiplied. After recalculating, I'll go with it's a pretty good movie. Denzel does very good sometimes and way too much other times; everyone else gets an A. (A few weird VFX moments jumped out at me, too, but that's neither here nor there.)

Lion

Dumb name, excellent movie.

Hidden Figures

Dumb name, delightful movie.

Damn, sir. Nice work. That's awesome.

Ooooh, fun idea for a thread.

*thumbs*

Pft. I'm not sure if anyone could do that, but, nice try. 

It's funny — he's actually slightly more convincing in this video than he is in the movie, 'cuz in the movie the lip sync was just as close as Oz could get, but in this they can artificially match the lip movements to whatever word makes the most sense, and the effect is a little too-real in places. Fun.

Wow. This is really something. Clicked through a few of them, stopped for a while on By the Millions. Shit's cool.

I'm not sure if I'll also be coming back to listen through it all the way, but, solid work.  (Maybe it's saturation, but I have a really hard time even listening to Trump's voice at the moment. I honestly can't imagine being you for the past few days. Yeesh.)