Jeremy rages against bad-faith online discourse concerning the ending of Lilo & Stitch. Lisa cowers in terror at Plinky’s moist eyeballs. Scott whines about Final Reckoning’s past-tense Mission: Impossible callbacks. All share varying degrees of disappointment with both big-deal Memorial Day weekend releases. Commercially, they of both kicked relative amounts of butt, with Lilo & Stitch setting a record for the holiday and Mission: Impossible scoring a franchise-best domestic and global weekend. This weekend’s deep thought: When Hollywood bothers to put out a decent volume and variety of movies in theaters, those movie theaters can still pull record-setting box office.

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