Welp, I'm now not going either. I have precious few dollars to spend on well, anything these days, and it sounds like I'm better off watching my DVD of the original and going to see Black Panther again.

That review was awesome, Vonnie.

Whoops! Sorry, Vonnie.

Matt: There was actually a line saying they'd yanked it out of one robot and put it in another.

From the NPR review:

The new film has some fun with that world, tweaking events from Pacific Rim in a way that nudges right up against the edge of full-on retcon, without doing that first film any real disservice.

Yeah, no. This is Jessica's Point One above, and one of the Evangelion elements I mentioned. It basically contradicts what we see and hear of the kaijus' actions in the first movie. The annoying thing is, they didn't have to try and retcon it, they just could have said the bad guys had changed tactics.

Thanks Chris, I missed that they swapped glowy chainsaw swords. Wait, when did they have time to do that?

As for your point about the retcon, they could have easily said that drifting with Newt and Hermann's minds in the first movie gave the Precursors a treasure trove of information about current world geography, plate tectonics, human technology and resources, etc. that would have allowed them to come up with the quick terraforming plan whereas before they'd only had a kaiju's eye view of Earth in the present day.

Any idea why The Last Jedi Blu Ray is not available for purchase in Amazon? [link]

I know they have all moved to streaming but I still like physical media for some of my favourites. Odd that the biggest online seller doesn't have the set. I guess I can just pop off to Target to get it...

I heard it was a dispute between Disney and Amazon

First Netflix and now Amazon. Disney people sure have problem playing nice with others. I guess they don't need to, what with being the owner of EVERYTHING. MCU, Star Wars, Pixar... what *don't* they own, really.

Off to Target tonight, I guess!

what *don't* they own, really.

Harry Potter! Uh, and DC.

Right! But it wouldn't surprise me a bit if, at sometime in the next decade, Disney unhinged its jaw like a massive python and swallowed up Warner Brothers whole.

Finally saw A Wrinkle in Time. I liked it. I didn't love it. Though I don't quite know why. It wasn't that they changed the book too much, but maybe it was the seemingly randomness of some of the changes.

The visuals were great. I loved that they made you think spatially from the very beginning. And they seemed a nice callback to how some of I Will Follow was filmed.

I thought it dealt with well with the latter part of the book that I don't really like. Two things I missed from the opening were the dark and stormy night in the middle of nowhere aspect (when you really see how freakish Charles Wallace is before IT) and the ant and the string (which is in one of the trailers so they did film it).

I was going to come in here and post an expanded version of my Twitter thoughts about Ready Player One but then my brother sent me this McSweeney's article and I can't breathe I'm laughing so hard.