Unless you're Akira Kurosawa, you make movies long enough and eventually one or two are going to suck. But I think the big disappointment isn't necessarily that Pixar made a bad movie, but that they appeared to have made a totally half-assed one. Multi-layered stories that resonate with kids and adults on different…

@Miller. If I recall, that was Cameron Diaz' first role. Also, you are correct.

CF's "every film since has been more slightly watered down than the previous" pretty much nails Adam Sandler's career. I caught The Waterboy on TV a few weeks ago and it was somehow worse than I remembered it (and I remembered it as being pretty bad). Reading this thread, though, has given me hope that not only is…

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The clam knows what its talking about. And using specific examples has long been a staple of Driver's Ed which, at least when I took it, was chock full of the Sheriff's department's regional slideshow of violent deaths from the next town over, and preceded by a statement that the slides had been selected with the…

Two Man Gentleman Band
Whose albums are pretty well gold from start to finish, but for a start I'll link to:

Does anyone remember if Year of the Dragon had a parade in it?

When I saw Moonraker as a young lad, I thought it was the worst of all possible offenses against Cinema, Humanity, and Ian Fleming. From Russia With Love - now THERE was a Bond movie. But if I watched Moonraker today I think I would find it delicious, delicious cheese. If only it was exactly like that poster, it…

The answer to today's question for me is also probably "The Dead," mainly because reading, re-reading it, close reading etc of it was the centerpiece of my college capstone course. And from there, my fondness for the story just kept growing. Lately though, I don't so much re-read it as glance at it on the shelf and…

Props to Britomart.

Let's not forget that, even if you for some reason thought that renting DIVX movies was a good idea (possible reasons: brain damage, had celebrity endorsement deal with product, hate the environment), this was your selection:

Am I the only one here who wants to say something nice about the Virtual Boy? I picked one up on the cheap after it was discontinued, and thought the three games I played - the Wario one, the tennis one, and the old Mario arcade throwback - were entertaining enough. If it had been better-received, I think they could…

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I think I've read an interview or two where Michael Bay says outright he makes movies for "

I think "Spice Girls feminism" is a suitably evocative term for something like "embracing one's sexuality as a form of superficial empowerment in the service of a massive commercial system," which would be a more apt descriptor for her taking roles in the Transformers movies, rather than declining them.

I think Spaced feels more like a 'period piece' on the late 90s than 'dated.' It's so specific in its references that it seems to be striving to be a time capsule, and its manic energy keeps it entertaining.

I review I read once described watching the X-Files today from start to finish observing a record of the "evolution of the cell phone."

I don't know, worker. I sympathize with your position, but I feel most Pixar movies have been pretty adept at putting believable and effective emotion into their movies. Not necessarily ambiguity, but that's absent in most commercial movies, period. Almost everyone I talked to about 'Up' commented on how emotionally…

I thought Toy Story 3 was one of the few highlights of generally mediocre year in cinema last year, and enjoyed the parts of 'Dragon' I half-watched on a TV that happened to be on in a room. Someday I plan to sit down and watch it in its entirety. I would like to point out, though, that most Pixar movies have an…

Amazingly recent example: Pirates 4
Not that Barbossa was supposed to look 'older' per say - more age's cousin look of 'weathered' and 'worn out' - but I found his makeup job distracting. It looked like someone dabbed his face with flour and oil and was left at the bottom of a rusty kiln to bake, and not in a…