Late to the party, but I saw went to the Dublin tour last weekend (the last stop on the tour, too).
In my first review, I said it felt like witnessing the beginnings of a now-famous band back when they were performing in a tiny venue, when the audience was made up of their entire fanbase at that point. Last week's screening was like seeing them a decade later at a sold-out stadium performance. The only difference is that concerts…
Hey, sorry I haven't been too active on here for the last half-a-year.
I'll be entirely honest, even though it's all dealt with now and it's the ultimate first-world problem, the fiasco with Coyote Vs. Acme kind of took the air out of me for a while. I lost a bit of my ion and it made everything else that's happened in the world before and since (Ukraine, Gaza, you-know-who getting elected) seem even more insurmountable, not to mention the…
Edit 5/4/2020: The following rant was not meant to be interpeted as an endorsement of Illumination. I, like all of you, don't care much for their movies, nor do I appreciate their approach to animation in general. There are many other critically-panned animated movies that I greatly prefer and would much sooner defend than Sing. HOWEVER, I still stand by everything I stated below. My annoyance towards some of the attitudes on this site had been buliding up for a…
True story: Last year, I was at a party in a friend's house and, after some favorable song choices, ended up being the DJ of the night.
Halfway through the night, I decided to play the theme song to this movie, the thought being "If they know THIS song, I'll know I'm in the right place".
To my complete surprise, not only did they know the song, they fucking SCREAMED upon hearing it and started gushing about the movie itself,…
