Bad Times at the Box Office

Man, I must not be having fun, because time has slowed down as though I've been in church all this time!  That's the price you pay: time slows down, but you gotta read the Bible, especially one with lots of "thee"s and "thine"s in it.  Makes it a little trickier, but what the hey.  We've got three debuts this week, but the moviegoing public decided, meh.  We'll just see the new Venom a second time instead.  Meanwhile, in astronaut news, current astronaut Scott Kelly goes where few men dare to tread: Twitter controversy.  Why, I'm so pre-offended by the whole thing that I'm not even going to dignify any of it with comment.  Bill Maher, whom many of my Facebook friends watch, probably dealt with it best, but I will just say that any variation of the phrase "I guess those days are over" is probably a recipe for Twitter disaster.  DO NOT TWEET anything like that.  If you're going to quote somebody, quote somebody, but no phrases that suggest a return to the good old days... oops, I think I've blogged too much.  But there were also some complaints online about how we, as a society, made the wrong choices over the years.  We chose to fund the space program instead of trying to fix the quality of inner city housing.  Sounds like something a Republican operative would try to pass off as a Democrat's quote, but I mean... this is America, not Canada!  Canada's got higher quality housing for poor people... learned that from one of Michael Moore's documentaries, I think it was the one about guns.  Which brings me to First Man, the latest good role for Ryan Gosling.  Seems like only yesterday he was "Young Hercules."  He'll get that Oscar (TM) (R) (C) someday, though.  Maybe not for this, but for... let's say The Notebook.  People love The Notebook, right?  ...oh, right, apparently First Man is about Neil Armstrong.  I've been listening to a lot of Robert Klein lately, and he's got a bit... I mean, some musings about Neil Armstrong, and... wow!  That's what I get for trying to search for Neil Armstrong and ANYONE ELSE!  Also, he made what I'm being told is a cryptic speech, so I now hate him forever and ever amen.  As for Robert, well, here's what seems to be his latest and greatest on YouTube.  Give 'em hell, Robert!!
Our second debut is R.L. Stine's latest stab at the movies.  Kind of a sad state of affairs when you have to go around telling people that you've sold over 100 million books.  Something has clearly gone wrong somewhere.  Anyway, so Austin Pendleton's new movie... I mean, R.L. Stine's new movie is called Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween and, well, it's clearly an attempt to teach children about all this meta-stuff going on in scripts these nowadays.  I mean, Halloween is traditionally supposed to be one day out of the year when we get to just merely act like stuff is haunted.  But what do you do when sinister forces try to take over Halloween and haunt it themselves, thereby ruining it for everyone else?  Too complicated.  Also, doesn't the plot sound a bit like the plot for... let's say, 1980's 1978's Magic?  Or is it just somewhere along that same plot spectrum, so to speak?
And finally, we got one of those Pulp Fiction-esque films, and it's called Bad Times at the Hotel California El Royale.  I feel sorry for Jeff Bridges now because every time he works on a movie, there's this expectation that he's going to do one of his picture books about it, and... I don't know, does he give it out to just some of the cast, or to the cast and crew?  The point being, there's this expectation now, and it might be getting a little bit costly.