It has one of the best final shots I've seen in a film since The Fabelmans. I laughed loudly at that. And honestly the rest of it was super fun. The big battle scene was a blast, and has some incredibly innovative stuff in it.
I watched the first two episodes, concluded it was even worse than the book, which was already a tropey mishmash of poor-man's Tolkien ideas, and decided I had better things to do.
I've never thought about the life cycle of mimics before, but it makes sense that a creature that imitates a treasure chest might start its life imitating single coins and other small bits of treasure.
Perhaps they birth thousands of young at a time, and what looks like a pile of gold is actually a brood.
So I had just seen Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning over the weekend, and had to laugh when the opening sequence of this one had almost the same action scene on top of a train going through a tunnel. And then also had a chase scene through narrow alleyways in a comically tiny vehicle.
Don't get me wrong, the action sequences were well-executed, but they felt somehow a bit generic, as if you could paste them into almost any action movie without losing a beat, and those two were case in point. I did love the dynamics of the tuktuk chase, but as a focus for the characters it fell a tad short.
My point, if I have one, is that it's trendy for a vegan to object to eating sterile eggs even from well-treated chickens, but hardly anybody wants to talk about the way too many dogs are treated, just as a manner of course.
Yes, many people treat their dogs well, or think they do, but they're still routinely confined, leashed, fed cheap crap food, left alone in the yard with no stimulation for most of the day. They're bred to serve and treated like furniture or at best interactive toys or escorts to make their owners feel good.
Nobody wants to talk about how miserable most of these animals probably are for large parts of their existence, because they wag their tails and jump excitedly in the rare moments when their people actually give them attention. Hardly anyone wants to give a thought to what an existence as a dog muct actually be like. And that's for the well-treated ones. There are just as many or more who are penned in tiny yards or otherwise mistreated, but don't you dare criticise dog owners or the industry for turning a blind eye so long as the dog food money keeps flowing.
Don't mind me, it's just a personal bugaboo of mine. Some dog-human relationships are perfectly reasonable. Zero tolerance veganism as a moral stance is just as mysterious to me as my opinion of dog culture probably is to you. I've known chickens who are taken better care of than most of the dogs in my neighborhood, and it seems strange to object to eating their eggs, unless you have a specific dietary reason for it.
That's great! I've been watching since I noticed the berries so ripe, and I actually saw a red-headed finch in the yard today for the first time in years, so hope isn't lost.
You may be overestimating how many Ram drivers actually use their truck for anything besides peacocking. Maybe it's a regional thing, but around here I see more of them without a scratch on the bed than hauling or towing anything.
I'd definitely give it a shot before preemptively shitting on it like this, though. She's clearly a huge fan of the character and the universe, and I'd love to see what kind of story she wants that character to be a part of.
Yes, movie trailers are ads. Film at eleven.