Preach. The dude in the couple also complained loudly that this seemed like a "propaganda movie" after the first 5 minutes, whatever the fuck that meant in this setting. Ugh. I love movies. Not so fond of people most of the time.

On a happier news, The Criterion Channel is live!! The app is available on my Android TV and seems to work pretty well. After activating my device, I skimmed around various films available for streaming on the channel. I really like the curatory aspect of their selections -- there are themed movie groups, and recs from various directors/actors/critics. The current active theme list has 'Columbia noir', which has a bunch of film noir I've never even heard about -- looking forward to digging into that.

They also have various thematic pairings of a short and a feature length film. I picked on something called 'Mystery Train,' and watched this marvellous Canadian stop-motion animated short called Madame Tutli-Putli (available on youtube for free, it turns out), paired with Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, which I have actually never watched in full. I only watched about 20 mins of the latter 'cause it was getting late and am eager to get back to it.

So far, zero regrets in paying through the year. :)

Madame Tutli-Putli

I've seen that! I loved it.

Star Wars movie title thoughts?

Was a title announced, or are you asking what we think it should be?

Never mind; I just saw it on Facebook.

I have zero opinion on the title, because I'm just not really invested in the SW movies. I mean, I like them, but it's nice to just like something without throwing my fannish little heart into it.

Yeah, I like Star Wars, but it burned through all of my enthusiasm in the 00s.

I've also learned to never get too enthusiastic about any JJ Abrams project, either.

I am mostly invested in Rey. And Finn and Poe. And Leia. And Rose.

And also Lando. And Chewie. And BB-8.

I think it's a stupid title, but I also think ALL the SW movies have stupid titles, so it's on-brand at least.

Fortunately being a Trekkie as a kid protected me from ever getting too into the Star Wars franchise. (I didn't even see the original movie first run, but when it returned to theaters a couple of years later before Empire Strikes Back.)