The film genuinely looks like it cost $200 million, and if you treat it like a cartoon it's fine.

But I will also forget everything that happened in it by next weekend.

Kong, Godzilla & Mecha Godzilla's fight devastates Hong Kong, resulting in hundreds of thousands dead & trillions in damage. How will the world of the film reckon with such loss & devastation?

Movie: did you see the bit where Kong and Godzilla decide not to fight? They learnt to respect each other.

Kong discovers a vast temple with a door, staircase and towering pillars. Did ancient kongkind have architects? What was their civilization like?

Movie: dunno. Kong finds a giant axe with glowing nuclear powers.

There's a hollow earth? Does humanity explore this strange new land and marvel at its beauty and strangeness?

Movie: No. But what if Kong fights a passenger jet sized lizard monster?

Gives me a headache just trying to run through all the consequences of this.

Like what does it mean if a bunch of governments pump money into this? It's so hard to take money out of crypto without tanking it, but the coin itself doesn't create anything.

Anyway here's the results so far, in order of viewing:

Nowhere Special - 8
Boy Kills World - 7.5
Longlegs - 6.5
The Fall Guy - 7.5
The Fabelmans - 8
Civil War - 7
One Life - 8
Love Lies Bleeding - 9

It seems like Spielberg made the film for deeply personal reasons, so I don't think he had any thought of making a better biopic of his own life than anyone in the future will be able to make.

But it is interesting to think about.

And I don't know, I guess I always knew that's what Lord of the Rings was about, but I've never really felt it as deeply as I did this time.

For the whole movie the Ring is this looming mass of power that pulls at the people around Frodo. Gandalf, Galadriel, Borimir, Aragorn, even Bilbo.

And when they've faced it they have to come to terms with the fact that they just barely resisted the temptation of absolute power.

Anyway, this is a long way of saying I nearly teared up at that last scene between Aragorn and Borimir.

That whole subplot. Bro had to die with arrows in his chest for Aragorn to realise the whole Gondor thing wasn't about him and he needed to get over himself.

All I'm saying is has anyone done a Marxist analysis of Santa's workshop? Are the elves unionised?