That is one big pile of shirt.

Why, did he want to put a giant robot in it or something?

Agreed. It's got a decent cast and is astonishingly gross considering how scissor-happy the ratings board was at that time.

This doesn't sound like an utterly thankless task or anything.

I feel like he has so much sympathy for his monsters that he forgets to make them scary.

All I remember about Crimson Peak was that one face-stabbing. But it was a pretty excellent face-stabbing, which means it contains one more pretty excellent thing than Pacific Rim.

I hope somebody got fired for that Sorboner!

Demigod? More like semi-knob!

Ha ha, more like Jerkules, am I right?

Keep that guy away from my cocaine?

Thanks to the poor editing, sloppy framing, self-conscious color timing, and that infernal skip-frame shutter technique, this was the first film that gave me the impression that, while I'd watched it, I hadn't actually seen it. Sadly, that impression became all too common in the years that followed.

Gladiator popularized multiple filmmaking techniques that have made cinema worse. Discuss.

I saw two Miyazaki films in the theater for that very reason. Sex was the light at the end of a very, very long tunnel.

The real controversy here is why the film exists in the first place, since it is universally accepted that anime is dumb and nobody likes it.

Yeah, this is bullshit. He always seemed like a solid human to me. He was among the first of the regulars to like my comments when I started posting here. And lord knows I've never seen him be as big of an asshole as I can be sometimes.

Which I'm excited about because that seems like something that Wright would knock out of the park. This one aesthetic conceit just doesn't sound like a great hook to hang a whole movie on, though.

Yeah, I'm hoping the music conceit is just something the media latched onto and not actually the central draw.

That's exactly what that hypothetical 90s music video director would have said, except he'd try to convince us it was a French Connection throwback because it has a car chase in it.

Crusty jugglers…

I'll always give Wright the benefit of the doubt (and I also try not to watch trailers for movies I already know I want to see, so maybe all my concerns are addressed) but I really hope there's more to this one than "A getaway driver listens to music." That premise sounds pretty thin after all the conceptually rich…