If those movies were tentpoles, yes.

Conversely, Yoga Hosers and Tusk paid for themselves before they opened with international distribution and streaming deals.

Would we really call Yoga Hosiers a movie?

These are all interesting, well-made points. I think @wolfmanjew:disqus's comment, below, really highlights one of the biggest differences between the two, and I also think that isolation plays a big factor. Metroid generally takes place on dead or abandoned worlds (or ruins or ships) that have been recolonized by…

I really aggressively disagree with the notion of making Metroid a map game. There are lots of map games out there. Please go play them. That's not a Metroid game. That's a Zelda or a Horizon or a Skyrim dressed up in Metroid clothes.

It's an incredibly fine line there between too much backtracking and backtracking when you're powered up that still feels fun and engaging. Metroidvania games always push against it and fall all over the place on both sides.

Not to impugn James Gunn, but why would you even write an R-rated version of a Scooby Doo movie? I don't see how anyone would ever think that was an idea that would actually be released. Very bizarre.

It would be as if you riled up a colony of stinging insects. Maybe there's a word for that. A hornet's nest?

I can't tell if this is a joke or you were actually confused.

Which cannot be excised from the fact that it was right after 9/11 and everyone was sort of awkward and somber, and he fucking blew the roof off the place when he did that.

Certainly since Comedy Central got involved in televising them, they have stopped being even vaguely funny, insightful, or relevant.

I would find that more compelling if the Bride weren't 100% successful in every aspect of her plan. She suffers no permanent harm during the events of the movie. She kills everyone she intends to (and then some). She reacquires her child.

I think the whole PWR BTTM nonsense over the last month has really stepped up the absurd hilarity of repeated articles on the same subject within a short period of time.

If only we could harness the power of dead presidents spinning in their graves. We could power the planet for all time. Even Reagan would be in on the action at this point. Evil Empire? More like Best Buddies!

The "White man overbite shuffle" never goes out of style. We always have that.

"Fight choreographer Yuen Woo-Ping had already done great, high-profile work with The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but his work in that first Kill Bill somehow eclipses both of those."

In the same video, which was posted downthread, he specifically says that drugs and his health were not THE reason he's not on CR anymore and that he legally can't talk about THE reason. Though, obviously, they contributed.

The first Hangover I don't mind as much, but 2 and 3 really triple down on the darkness.

Every time I saw a trailer for this movie, I cringed. I haven't ever seen Very Bad Things, but everything about the premise just made me incredibly uncomfortable.

Everything about that is soooooooo uncomfortable.