I did not claim that it was not better than 1952 - you arbitrarily assigned a date in the distant past to my own statement merely to prop up your own argument.

… is better than 1952 really the line we're stopping at for 'good enough'?

… is better than 1952 really the line we're stopping at for 'good enough'?

Or because the systematic erasure of the non-straight-white-male experience from mainstream film and television is a serious problem that's not really getting better.

Or because the systematic erasure of the non-straight-white-male experience from mainstream film and television is a serious problem that's not really getting better.

I don't really understand where the 'tension' in Funny Games is supposed to be coming from.  It's a film-length lecture about how horrible a person you are for enjoying horror films.

I don't really understand where the 'tension' in Funny Games is supposed to be coming from.  It's a film-length lecture about how horrible a person you are for enjoying horror films.

I was going to say something mildly snarky, like, "Clearly those are the only options, @avclub-4602fc349ffc0ad649190e937f2a5f14:disqus.  It's either "The Impossible" or superhero movies."

I was going to say something mildly snarky, like, "Clearly those are the only options, @avclub-4602fc349ffc0ad649190e937f2a5f14:disqus.  It's either "The Impossible" or superhero movies."

Agree with much of your list, though I would add THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN as the absolute worst movie I saw in theaters this year.  It was almost laughably bad.

Agree with much of your list, though I would add THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN as the absolute worst movie I saw in theaters this year.  It was almost laughably bad.

One of my favorite things about REC was that it found a way around that, in the most terrifying way possible: once the power was cut, the camera was the only thing they had that let them see the monsters at all.

One of my favorite things about REC was that it found a way around that, in the most terrifying way possible: once the power was cut, the camera was the only thing they had that let them see the monsters at all.

Not on these boards, but fairly thorough…

Not on these boards, but fairly thorough…

It wouldn't have been made, at least not in the studio system with this sort of budget, let alone received as wide a release.

It wouldn't have been made, at least not in the studio system with this sort of budget, let alone received as wide a release.

Seriously. I'm a LITTLE embarrassed this got such a good grade here; even the preview disgusted me.

Seriously. I'm a LITTLE embarrassed this got such a good grade here; even the preview disgusted me.

@avclub-cfe912f5cb3aa572bd1c9ae2a9b82207:disqus - damn, that sounds amazing.  I've missed almost every major retrospective I can think of in the last year or two, always finding out about them too late.  Gotta keep an eye out for that kind of thing.