Sean Fennessey

musical cues, a couple of gags in it that felt like it was really scratching something very personal, which seems silly, but you very eloquently illuminated for an hour all of the ways in which this movie kind of tapped into or failed to tap into certain aspects of your personality and your experiences as a person or how you aspire to things and how that maybe let you down over time.

And...

We're in this rich moment because of our age and because of the state of the movie business where this is going to keep happening.

We're going to keep having feelings like this.

There are plenty of movies over the years

Where you see something personal happen to a character and you connect to it.

Like I vividly recall with ease the dinner table sequence in Boyhood where they're seated with their new stepfather or mom's boyfriend.

And I'm like, that's just like a chilling movie moment for me to watch that and to feel that and to think about the characters at that table.

But this is different.

This is like there's something...

mechanized about this that also still kind of gratifies us.

And I'm trying to get my arms around the feeling.

Yeah, it's not really bad.

It is a little bit duplicative at times, and it also is a little bit of a downer at times.

Yeah.

very watchable and entertaining in a way that you don't usually expect from a movie like this.

You know, I think this movie has a kind of like action figures quality for you and a lot of the things that you enjoy where it keeps popping up.

In most of the movies that I'm referring to are about totems of my youth.

Comic book characters.

This, in June, will have Masters of the Universe.