Watching Scream 4 Tonight 🍿.
I'm glutton for punishment with these Scream movies. I watched the 7th movie the other day and it was absolutely awful! Just pure trash. However the first movie was excellent and I'm always chasing that high. I skipped this movie when it came out in the mid 2000s because I was completely done with these movies. Courtney Cox doesn't look plastic in this movie so that's a real plus, and there looks to be some good look.girls in this movie. Trust me, I'm a simple man, especially when watching movies this bad.
Did you see this movie? How bad is it, or does it stand out as one of the better Scream movies?
Support Physical Media. Don’t stream this movie. Own it. Hold it. Keep it.
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My fondest memory of Physical Media Gaming was LAN parties for Halo 1 on a CRT TV with instant response time. It was a magical era that pretty much ended when Halo 3 arrived. That Halo 1 and Halo 2 stretch has never been bested for me.
What's your fondest Physical Media Gaming Memory?
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I think Sony shutting down physical game discs is a mistake. Movies didn’t die when studios stopped handling discs themselves. Disney licensed out. Universal licensed out. Warner Bros licensed out. Paramount licensed out. Other companies stepped in and delivered better products for collectors. Games could do the same. Who cares if some titles are huge now and need two or three discs. Fine. They may need to charge more, but at least there’s an option. Killing game ownership outright helps nobody. It hurts players, collectors, and if Sony wants to remove those games at any time from their servers they can, that's bad. Look what they did to those 500 movies. They removed them and no refunds were given. I can still play Super Mario 2 on an NES, because I still have the cartridge. I can still play Halo CE and Halo 2 because I still have an original Xbox. Remember those Christmas times, and opening and giving gaming presents? Well those days are over. I have so many good memories of getting and giving games at Christmas. What do kids look forward to today, a code that they enter and spend the next 2 hours downloading a 500GB game? That's just sad. Sony and other developers should license the games instead of burying them.
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Christopher Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY countdown trailer has become the most disliked Hollywood trailer since the trailer for SNOW WHITE with Rachel Zegler.
THE ODYSSEY now has an estimated ~80% dislikes, while SNOW WHITE had ~95% dislikes.
Dad, what was it like to own your games?
It was wild, kid. You put a disc or cartridge in a box and the box just… played it. No accounts. No subscriptions. No “checking for updates.” You owned it the same way you own a chair. It couldn’t disappear unless you physically lost it, which, yes, happened a lot.
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If you want Physical Media to survive, start buying it! I don't give a shit where you buy it from, but start supporting it, and it will never go away! #PhysicalMedia
Watching The Money Pit Tonight. 🍿
Tom Hanks losing his mind over a house that keeps breaking faster than he can fix it feels exactly like the kind of chaos I’m in the mood for.
What are you watching Tonight?
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TOY STORY 5: IN IMAX THOUGHTS
I liked the movie. It has a good last half with some nice payoff, and a message about how tech can be useful when handled correctly, I think it works fine. It feels about equal to Toy Story 4, but it’s certainly not in the same league as the original trilogy. Those first three movies are masterpieces in animation, and nothing here reaches that level.
Some of it feels a bit like a made‑for‑home‑video spin‑off. Where a few characters have different voices, and that pulled me out of it. Woody and Buzz feel more like side characters this time. The story is basically a continuation of the idea from Toy Story 2 for Jessie, and the movie leans into that. Duke Kaboom was also back, but was criminally unused, why? We have all these great characters, and they're just there in visual support.
Our IMAX presentation looked incredible. The aspect ratio goes back to 1.85:1, and it fills the screen in a way that feels right for this series. The animation has a similar quality to Toy Story 4, maybe even smoother in some scenes. The colors look clean, and the whole movie has a polished look that looks smooth. I had no issues with the way the movie looked.
The sound mix is also decent. Dialogue is super clean, and there are some cool surround moments, especially in a Buzz Lightyear scene. Nothing earth‑shaking, but it sounds good. One thing I didn't love was the music, it never leaned into the great music of Toy Story, why? You got a friend in me. I would have loved to have heard it here, and it made so much sense at the end too, but the music didn't have the feels that the original 3 has.
Overall, I had fun with the movie. It’s a good time, and it works for all ages. It’s just missing some of the charm that made the original trilogy so special. The humor also is not as good as the first 3 movies. Those first 3 movies are hilariously funny. This one has a couple of laughs. Duke Kaboom was the best thing in Toy Story 4, and he had almost no screen time.
After this one, I’m not sure where the franchise can go without copy and pasting itself. But I still think it’s worth going to see in theaters, because of the experience of watching a movie like this with others.
Carl,
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Watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind Tonight from Director Steven Spielberg.
I'm watching The Theatrical Cut tonight. Is that the best version. I'm hearing mixed thoughts on the Special Edition and the Directors cut.
Watching Toy Story 3 Tonight. This one hit like a truck when it came out. The ending felt like Pixar looked every millennial in the eye and said “grow up.” It’s wild how a movie about toys can feel this heavy and this warm at the same time.
By this point the series had lived on every format. DVD. Blu‑ray. And now 4K Ultra HD Blu‑ray. Each upgrade made the colors pop a little more and the emotions hit a little harder.
I remember seeing this one and realizing the franchise wasn’t just nostalgia anymore. It was growing with us. What part of Toy Story 3 hit you the hardest when you first saw it?
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