For those who have seen it, from 1-to-10, where would you place "The Great Gatsby" on the "movies that completely missed the point of the source material" scale?

A textbook of short stories for one of my high school english classes had the original "To Serve Man" story, and like a good joke, it does work better the faster you can get from the title to the twist (or punch line, if you will.) The story itself takes about ten or fifteen minutes to read, and even though I knew the…

I never meant to suggest that Season 5 was crap by any means, though it is pretty much the last really good season of the show.

"YOU shut up! I had enough-a you, over at the slot!
 
Butterfly, you're— huh, flap your wings for me, eh? Yeah, gimme… gimme a FLUH-tah! Gimme a fluttah.

"The Dundies" is so good, it single-handedly made me forget about the train wreck that was the first season. In 22 minutes, I went from "they shouldn't have even tried to adapt this show in the first place" to "next episode, please!"

A friend's outgoing voicemail at the time was just a recording he made of Moviephone: "You have selected - [Dick!] To find out where - [Dick!] - is showing, press one!"

The bees from "Mysterious Island" are probably my favorite work of his, at least from a purely technical standpoint. Harryhausen gave Mighty Joe Young and Medusa (and plenty of other characters) amazing personalities just in their body language, making monsters and animals seem almost human. But insects have such…

Yes, thank you for backing me up there. So many people gush over his art, and many aspects of it are great, but the guy draws faces like everyone just stepped out of the boxing ring and then got pumped full of novocaine. His Wonder Woman from JLA Earth 2 was some kind of fleshy pumpkin with a too-small face drawn on…

Shit, I didn't even realize 3.0 had been released. I was really liking where that redux was going.

Mind: blown

Sometimes I think the worst thing to ever happen to Shaymalan might've been "The Sixth Sense." Everyone expected twists in his movies after that one. Any late development in his films got labeled as a "twist", which is unfair (well, mostly; the end of "Village" is a legitimately bad twist.)

What does hating a guy's stupid face and voice have to do with his art? Billy Friedkin's kind of a douchebag, and iIf I ever had to listen to Andy Warhol talk for ten minutes, I'd probably want to punch him in the dick, but that doesn't mean they each didn't make some powerful art.

Carry on, sir. This is easily Shayamalan's best film (though "Sixth Sense" is still a lot of fun), 100% character-driven and the ending is less a "twist" than an inevitability.

I'll always love "Mystery Dance" for introducing the world to Daryl Zero.

"Password?"

Anyone else attend C2E2 in Chicago this weekend?

Good catch. Maybe he's a former member of the other side who's now protecting the clones.

I could deal with a seemingly useless character (this show's made it clear that everyone has layers; I'm still waiting to find out that Beth was nailing her partner), but the actor just stinks. He's like the male version of Lindsay Price.

I think every generation gets a few movies like that. For me (born in the mid-70s) it was "The Breakfast Club." I loved that movie up until almost the very moment that I caught up to the characters in age (late high school), then it was "wow, this is total horseshit."

"Garden State" was the moment where Abe Simpson's prediction came true for me:
"I useta be with it. Then they chaged what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it,' and what's 'it' seems strange and unusual to me. It'll happen to youuuuuuu… "