Fuckin' emotions … how do they work?

Good point, Claude. I'd forgotten that. Hmm…you might have a point.

The next Batman film needs a villain who can singlehandedly go toe-to-toe with Bats in a physical confrontation. What about that mutant gangleader guy that Batman fights in The Dark Knight Returns? The one whom Batman ends up more or less tearing limb from limb?

Yeah, "The Fly" was stomach-churning and profoundly depressing. Which is why that ending was absolutely perfect. Any other ending would have been an infuriating cheat.

teadoust, are you Eddie Izzard?

I agree with you only if we're talking about the montage that plays over the credits. It makes the ending seem schmaltzy and falsely positive. If you're talking about the ending proper, though, nope. That movie ends exactly the way it should.

Wow, I thought I was the only one who noticed how plotty and contrived Coraline's climax was. So much atmosphere and buildup, and it all comes down to a Macguffin hunt? It really did feel like a videogame: go to the garden, beat the dad-boss, get a Macguffin. Go to the attic, beat the rat-boss, get a Macguffin. It's…

"For Your Consideration" is just bad all the way through, not least because it's a non-mockumentary that's directed like a mockumentary. And it's extremely mean spirited to boot.

Amen on "The Lookout" - I was checking to see if anyone else had mentioned it. I don't know if I've ever felt more bitterly disappointed by a movie than I felt during its lame shoot-em-up conclusion. The minute Joseph Gordon-Levitt started pulling out guns and plotting ambushes, I was literally yelling at my TV: "no…

I wouldn't say that "Hancock" was a good movie ruined by a terrible final act so much as a bad movie that was almost redeemed by a great premise and a strong first act. Once Will Smith gets cleaned up and starts flying straight (pun mostly unintended), that eliminates any reason to be interested in the movie anymore.

Considerably: Nobody (or at least nobody with a fair amount of moviewatching smarts) is cheering by the end. That's my whole point. ST begins and ends with a strong satirical attack, but that strength disappears during the middle. If you think that, say, the bug assault on the fort is anything other than standard,…

I'm with Hercules Rockefeller on this one. Basically, it comes down to the difference between a film's *intent* and whether it actually *works.*

Man, like, whoa
-Verhoeven spends much of the essential commentary track on the Starship Troopers DVD making emphatically clear that the film is an anti-war satire, that fascism is "bad, bad, bad," and that "war makes fascists of us all."-

False. Nothing about Ke$ha is the best thing about her. She is uniformly awful in all respects. Just do a quick google image search if you don't believe. She's like a walking, sentient STD.

I almost picked his "Alice in Wonderland" for my answer to this question. What a gaudy, pandering, unoriginal piece of money-drenched crap that was. It may have turned me off Burton for good. That's it. He gets no more passes.

I'm with Preparation Heche. Saying, "I hate intellectually dishonest documentaries. Except for the ones that are on my side" is simply equivocation. Michael Moore's work is specifically targeted at viewers like Steven Hyden. Do you think Moore cares in the slightest that conservatives can pick his films apart? He…

High-school "adaptations" of Shakespeare
Particularly "She's the Man." I watched it with a group of friends, and we heckled it throughout, as is our wont with obviously terrible movies. There was a difference in our contempt in this instance, though. It was like we were laughing at it not because it was silly and…

" … if you're not sick of zombies, you ARE a zombie."

Yeah, Lone, I don't know why you're falling all over yourself to defend her on this page. "Pointlessly brutal," my foot—personally, I applaud any article that calls celebrities on their bullshit. Nobody's shocked that MIA doesn't walk her talk—anti-establishment posturing by rich and famous musicians is par for the…

It's official: this kid's chances of growing up to be a well-adjusted human being just hit 0%. I mean, already a group of adult strangers is speculating about his sexuality, and he's not even old enough for peach fuzz.