The issues that stuck out to me were:

-water is blue. Check out any shot of any aquarium. It's like a giant blue light. There's no blue ANYWHERE in the shots here, and it ought to be the dominant color.

-The criss-crossing God rays don't work for me. Generally a big tank like this they'll just light by leaving it open to the sun, which will have either parallel rays or rays that spread out from a source. I suppose it's feasible to light it that way if you're dealing with artificial lighting above the tank, but aesthetically it's distracting. Some of the rays also appear to be coming from the glass itself, which makes no real sense. Caustics like that come from the surface. They're also flickering too much. It looks less like light shimmering down through water and more like a laser battle.

In the positives, nice shot selection. Wasn't huge on the music but I see why you went with it. What does "Foundation year" mean?

RE: Bill & Ted -- you also have the usual fun timeloop paradox where Bill and Ted have no actual way of knowing Rufus' name because he never tells them. They learn his name when future Bill and Ted show up at the Circle K and give him a shoutout. So they only know his name because their future selves say it, but their future selves only know it because they heard themselves say it in the past.

I still haven't shown the guys THE ROOM. I have to be there when it happens, and actually Ryan has also forbade me from screening it for them without him. The first time is a special thing.

That being said, while I will join the conversation if the others really want to do it, I would agree with Jeffery that it's not an ideal DIF picture. While it would seem to be prime material, since a lot of what we do is talking about where movies went wrong, THE ROOM is a special case. It lives in a rarefied realm of so-bad-it's-awesome, and talking about what went wrong would be akin to doing a commentary on a comedy, in which we did nothing but explain all the jokes. We could only make it less funny by doing so.

I'm still not sure I like PRIMER. I thought I did but now I think I don't. I need to see it again to decide but I'm kind of not interested which to an extent seems to indicate a decision.

Meh.

Wait wait wait. Let me see if I understand this timeline.

JU-ON comes out and is a big hit in Japan.

American studio wants to remake it in America and hires the original director for the remake.

They then release the remake back in Japan, essentially re-releasing JU-ON to the original audience but with white people and subtitles.

I guess it never occurred to me that, of course, an American remake of a film will be released worldwide including in the origin country. And thinking about it seems insane.