The sequels do have that whole "hey aren't we all hilarious hanging out and riffing" thing that can get insufferable in modern comedies. But at least the second one still has good stuff in it, notably the crazy shoulder dislocation thing Gibson does, and then the way that one villain guy says "diplomatic immunity".

That's a weirdly dismissive generalization—I'm a huge animation fan and I love most of their films. Also, the entire first hour of Wall-E has virtually no dialogue at all. You may feel like they use dialogue as a crutch, but the masterful visual storytelling in the majority of their work says otherwise.

The voice work in Nemo is stellar. The leads are Albert Brooks and Ellen Degeneres, not to mention a brilliant-as-usual Willem Dafoe.

No, the third one, who's actually talented and also hot, should just play both roles.

Everything you ever loved will eventually be ruined.

Had no idea that the Safety Last disc had The Third Genius on it. It's a great documentary, filled with lots of insight into Lloyd's approach to comedy.

I had nearly all of those DC Super Powers action figures, and they were awesome.

"Hey Woofer, why you always get to go first?"

They aren't journalists. I'm not sure what the hell they are, but they aren't journalists.

You're likely right about there being time within the story for people to evacuate, but the bigger issue (and the reason why this is being discussed all over the web this week) is that Snyder seems to fetishize the building destruction and thus the whole climax plays as really offensive and tasteless to a lot of…

Try a baby regard. For when you intend to show the slightest of care.

If you really want to experience just how sociopathic NYC audiences are when watching movies, go see something really violent at the Court Street multiplex in Brooklyn. The general attitudes of the audience (no to mention the ubiquitous cell phone use) makes me never want to leave my house ever again.

Agreed. I saw this last night, and as someone generally not bothered by this sort of thing (I expect destruction in my superhero movies), I found it really off-putting and needlessly destructive. Part of the issue is pacing—it's just so relentless in the back-half, so numbing, that I started drifting away from the…

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The disconnect is that while the lyrical content may be dark, the music on the VM album (to take one from the many examples above) is wonderfully melodic and bright. Nearly every song on that record is catchy as hell.

It may read as lazy to some, but to me, it reads as gentlemanly.

Maybe, but compared to the effects in similarly-budgeted movies (most notably District 9), they were pretty rough.

Very fun. She looks cute wielding an axe.

Well, maybe, but that's doesn't mean Terence Winter's script will follow suit.

This is The End was much, much better than I expected. It's shoddily made, and the effects in particular look pretty terrible, but I laughed way more than I usually do at these kind of actors-playing-themselves movies.