I hadn’t thought about it that way, but Jason Bourne is a perfect comparison.

Speaking for myself, I hated pretty much everything that wasn’t Rey/Kylo. In particular, everything that happened outside of the Jedi planet was either badly written, badly shot, or was completely useless to the main plot.

Unfortunately, most of my friends aren’t very polite.

“Oh, about 700 pages or so...”

It’s always been my impression that not being able to explain what Ulysses is about, doesn’t necessarily mean that person didn’t read it.

We complain a lot, so credit where it’s due - this article is really well written. Up with this sort of this etc.

I loved The Sparrow, agree its incorporation of spirituality and religion into sci-fi worked brilliantly, and I’m not Christian or even all that religious.

I’m still confused though, by Dreamers of the Day, which seemed like a 300 page love letter to T. E. Lawrence, capped off with a brief obligatory and ill-defined do…

I agree combining the two is difficult, though I think Russell’s The Sparrow and Blish’s A Case of Conscience are both masterpieces and both very specifically about melding sci fi with themes related to Christianity.

No one’s stopping you from enjoying crappy things. Enjoy all the crap you want! Ready Player One isn’t the first enterprise to have fans and also be crap.

Sorry, I didn’t mean to convey any disrespect to the survivors of the actual Wrinkle in Time.

And similarly, just because something is character development doesn’t mean that it doesn’t play phony and contrived in a movie!

This might be surprising but as a movie-watcher sometimes I need more than “because the book was that way.” (Though I hope everyone saying that offers similarly valiant defenses of, say, the ending to Spielberg’s War of the Worlds!)

whoever he is, he’s no Ken M

Obviously it’s Turbulence.....

I’d bump “The Martian,” out of deference to the fact that I didn’t seem “Brooklyn” or “Room.” And yeah, “Bridge of Spies” was a little stolid, but I only needed to bump one, and it was the crowd-pleaser. (Also didn’t see “Inside Out,” so can’t speak to its worthiness.)

I don’t think anyone suggested that Edward Scissorhands is better than Goodfellas.

‘86 Back to the Future. 

1999 could fill its own alternate all-timer list of rejects (though I would be sad to exclude The Insider from it):

I dont partake in a lot of things that I still consider more traditional sports. Timed events, distances measured or goals scored are clearer measures of who (individual or team) outperformed another. Judged events fall under the whim of the people that are judging. While those competing may be very skilled…

I don’t know what that means, but I’m going to assume it’s a man sitting at a table that’s been glued to the side of a cliff.