When Avatar opened it was huge, and then nobody thought about it again until summer 2016, when I got Avatar bedsheets. This movie is gonna be on fire like Richard Pryor. I am all about Avatar now, and so are the best people I know.

At its most basic, it holds some truth. Nobody wants to hear the boss make fun of the worker, but it works in reverse. The problem is who gets to decide on where the ultimate power imbalance lies, and how do they know they're right?

According to Peter Biskind's Down and Dirty Pictures (admittedly, not the most reliable source), the Coens were disappointed with the film and refuse to discuss it.

He's especially good in The Man Who Wasn't There and Bad Santa (even though the movie itself is pretty witless).

Yeah. It's hard for me to really gauge if this is true. The initial John Hughes movies were pretty evenly gender-split, and today there's still stuff like Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Project X, Spectacular Now. But I wonder if it's just that in general women creators have more of a sentimental attachment to their…

Do you mean in terms of their characters or audience?

Solid movie, but DETRIMENTALLY overscored in one key scene that would have been more powerful if it wasn't played as operatic. Someone needs to occasionally remind Lonergan that he isn't Kubrick, and his point-blank realist style doesn't support such affectations.

She has a cold presence that isn't right for Belle. In the trailer, she just looks bored.

"Let It Go" is so bad. When your entire song is pitched at 11, you're still a flat line.

I find a lot of people born in the late '70s cite Robin Hood as their favourite Disney movie. I think because it was the first one made available on videocassette, it was the one that was seen repeatedly. Plus, the songs were good and Maid Marion was a fox!

Most people (including those who edit Wikipedia) define the Renaissance as ending with Tarzan. I agree that the earlier films in that period were fresher. And though Pocahontas is a bit dramatically flat, it felt like the last of the era's initial breath of inspiration.

It's strange to claim the Renaissance period was "more important" than the Golden Age of the '30s and '40s. Disney's first five films (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo and Bambi) are all distinctive artworks done in unique visual styles from one another that created the entire medium of…

Yup. As much as everyone wants to believe they're tolerant, they've adapted a Michael Bay movie mindset, where the world is inhabited by only good and evil with no in-between. When, really, in-between is all there is. This inability to WANT to seek commonalities with others is the unspoken social problem of our time,…

You're thinking of Fatal Beauty. The Goldberg action-comedy was an interesting movement in '80s cinema.

Hey, people-who-incorrectly-think-they're-leftwing, maybe stop trying to shut down artworks. Especially ones you haven't even experienced yet. This type of thing always starts with "concerned citizens," and then turns into those in power using it as political leverage. Read some Orwell. Read some Le Guin. Research…

Yeah, but you shouldn't assume a subject isn't treated seriously simply because it's expressed within a specific genre framework either.

Or maybe they don't love all his stuff like you do. Christ. It's a message board, not a place to police consensus.

Touchy

Yeah, I get the impression Linklater was like, "All my friends back then were white, but people demand diversity now. Okay, if I put this one guy in, nobody will write any think-pieces comparing me to Dunham."

Part of the problem may be that Linklater was a more vital and exciting filmmaker in the '90s.