Plenty of good actors, sure, but I just found his performance so over the top in a captivating way. Even when he's nice he makes you afraid. It caused the most reaction of anyone in that movie for me.

Mike Nelson, formerly of MST3K and currently of Rifftrax, has a podcast called 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back, where the premise that they read the literary equivalent of the bad movies they'd do on MST3K and review them. The first book they did was Ready Player One, and, hoo boy, are you right. Whole point of the book just seems to be some boomer author listing off all the things he enjoyed when he was younger as if they were the be-all-end-all of pop culture.

Don't really know anything about the Nic Cage movie, but my impression of the Weird Al movie was that it was going to a stylized over-the-top parody of the genre of biopics of music stars and not so much something like those awful reference-vomit "parodies" that they used to churn out (all the ones that came out after Scary Movie). As a lifelong fan of Al, I'm hoping for the best.

Recently saw the latest Spiderman flick on an airplane. The one where there's an accident at the factory and it's OOPS ALL SPIDERMEN. Anyhoo, William Dafoe returns as the goblin dude and they do something right by trashing the comic villain mask and just letting the actor mug it up like a real creep. He turns from sympathetic confused soul to possessed psychopath on a dime and it's real fun to watch.

Well, the Weird Al Movie is based on a 10 year old internet sketch, so it probably should have some connection to internet entertainment, right?

Die Hard.
It's always been on my long list of films I want to see sometime, but I just never got around to watching it until I caught it on TV.
Was on a year or two ago when I was visiting my parents, who have TV and cable.
My dad commented, "People are saying this is a Christmas movie now, huh?"