I quite liked The Martian and Ridley Scott probably had a lot to do with that movie being as good as it was but I agree that it’s not exactly high art.

Maybe there’s an argument that Aliens is a superhero movie - I personally don’t think so but can at least understand the argument - but for Alien I don’t get where he’s coming from at all. He doesn’t provide any reasoning in the interview so I suspect he’s just being contrarian - if he really did envision Ripley as a…

>[Superhero movie] scripts are not any fucking good.

You may have heard of an invention called the radio lol

I’m all for anything that distracts Dave Grohl from releasing more generic zero artistic effort dad-rock so, sure, Studio 666, go for it, just don’t release a single from the soundtrack.

I live in BC which, granted, isn’t the snowiest of all the provinces but here the government considers all-season tires with the M+S (mud and snow) designation sufficient for winter driving.

I didn’t learn how to drive manual until five or six years ago and I couldn’t get over how absurd it felt putting all this effort into learning how to use a largely obsolete technology. It felt like learning how to repair VCRs or fax machines or something - sure there’s *some* need for those services but their time in…

Watching Cummings in The Wolf of Snow Hollow - a movie he wrote, directed, and starred it - I legitimately remember thinking it’s unfair for someone to have that much talent.

It feels like people are importing their own shit into this. Like if you immediately think a kid with developmental issues is “unhealthy” that’s kind of on you, nothing in Pratt’s post comes anywhere close to implying that.

I disagree with the love for season 4. Yes, it had John Lithgow chewing the scenery (does he do anything else?) but everything else was subpar. This is the point the series started relying heavily on shock and gore to distract from the poor storytelling, all of the B-plots were *terrible* as none of the supporting…

>Which, that sounds nice and all, but you don’t hire a director to direct episode 17 of a TV series if they aren’t going to give a shit about what happened in the previous 16 episodes.

After watching ‘The Wolf of Snow Hollow’ I’m a Jim Cummings believer so will definitely be checking this one out.

He was anointed the king-of-all-horror well before Us came out.

Jordan Peele being anointed the king-of-all-horror based on a single movie is another great example.  

It’s because Rowling clearly wants to be seen as a woke feminist but then goes on to spew hate towards trans people so in addition to being hateful she’s also a massive hypocrite.

One of my kids has been asking to watch the Harry Potter movies so we watched them all together and I just can’t understand how this series became the defining IP juggernaut of the early 00's.  Of the eight movies maybe like 3 of them are at all memorable.  I just don’t get the appeal.

I think I read that the original novel was co-written by Gaiman and Pratchett in a way where they were basically working on it independently then mashed their parts together. Having read books by both Pratchett and Gaiman, Good Omens reads much more like a Pratchett book than a Gaiman one. There are some scenes which…

I wonder how many times John Oliver has picked up needles or human feces from his front yard? If the answer is zero then I don’t really care about his opinion. If you successfully NIMBY’d your way out of the problem you don’t get to judge everyone else for trying to do the same thing.

Also, at least where I live, a lot more families are going single car so they get one SUV that can haul everyone. The other parent bikes, takes transit, or works from home, making a second cheap commuter car unnecessary.

Prisoner of Azkaban gets overrated simply due to alfonso cuaron; he’s a wonderful director and that movie is competently made but it’s still just not very interesting to watch. Also why do people immediately like things just because they’re “dark”? Chris Columbus at least understood the source material; who wants to…