Ooof. I guess the new conclusion is, all movies are failing. The end of cinema?

If people coming from Facebook stopped clicking on them.

I rewatched Balance of Terror! Love that one.

Highly doubt ole Ernie is particularly familiar with the art of contemporary film narrative.

Star Trek has taken a tumble in its second weekend as well (which is a shame, since I enjoyed it and it seemed to be taking the franchise in the right direction), while the latest Bourne film is doing great business. Conclusion? Some movies succeed, others don't. Dunno why.

Derail Enterprise? Nice.

A beautiful, successful American actress attempts to be an activist while being clueless about racial dynamics and politics of other countries and assuming all popular culture is intended for Americans? I am simply shocked!

If they want to disturb us to the core by penguins, they should just show this clip from the Herzog Antarctica documentary:

In related news, Godfather of Gore H.G. Lewis Apparently Still Alive?

I made the mistake of picking up At the Mountains of Madness as my first Lovecraft. I gave up after the 79th time he said the mountains looked like Roerich paintings.

The dubbing is unwatchable, though. Unlistenable?

Even as a kid I always hated kids in movies, but I always liked Short Round. And I didn't mind Capshaw!

I love all three but I prefer Crusade to Doom, even though I think most of your points are true.

Tootsiegeist

Red Letter Media did inadvertently inspire the genuinely terrible "internet nitpicks" subgenre of criticism, but Plinkett reviews were never about nitpicking and pedantry - sure, they had those, but it was more about genuine analysis of why something doesn't work compared and contrasted with examples of effective…

Yet there is a lot less action in the latter. Interesting how much tone matters when it comes to these things.

As much as I love Fury Road, I agree about the grit vs. gloss. I also prefer stories that don't have worldwide implications. Fury Road is about saving a whole nation, whereas Road Warrior is about a fight for a small patch of land in the middle of the desert. Don't know why, but those kind of stories always appealed…

Andrew Garfields?

Also a different title, tone and genre. Keep only the wipe transitions.

Yeah, that almost made me want to watch the movie. Almost.