I thought it was decent. Your basic two and a half star movie. A big step down from the first one, though, and I think that's why it gets such a hard time.

Goddammit, Woody. America really doesn't need this right now.

Yes, but what a revolution it heralded at the time! Back in those naive days of the late 1990s, never had any but the most perverse among us ever even dreamed of attempting so transgressive an act as raising the middle digit of one's hand to the exclusion of all other digits, whilst said hand was pointed in the…

"As we are serious artists concerned only with creating something of lasting quality, we were determined to find the very best actress available, so we naturally turned to a pop singer who gets acting roles handed to her because she's hot."

I disagree. The first book was cobbled together from bits and pieces of culture, both high and low, from epic poetry and spaghetti westerns to medieval myths and post-apocalyptic sci-fi. It's not dissimilar to what Tarantino did with Kill Bill decades later, but it's much less on-the-nose about it, at least initially.…

I wish actors would stick to talking about things they knew anything about, like vaccines and international policy.

You see, how this works is, he's free to think whatever the fuck he wants, and everyone else is free to think whatever they want about that, and at no point are death squads dispatched to anyone's house. That is literally what freedom of speech means. It does not mean "I get to be an asshole and nobody gets to say…

If you bear in mind that it was always more of a loose, metafictional exploration of the form and function of epic storytelling/Stephen King's own navel and not really an actual fantasy epic that you take 100% literally, you'll have a better chance of being okay with the ending. I liked it, myself, but I understand…

Do I know what "rhetorical" means?!

Is it possible to simply not like this story or the format in which it's told without it being a hot take? I legitimately dislike this sexist narrative and all the pandering, cutesy conventions it is comprised of. It actually kind of pisses me off.

I think the fact that there isn't even an implied apology anywhere in their response is very telling.

#WeAreThe5%

Yeah, that ninja stuff was their bread and butter. If they stuck with what worked for them and never tried to transcend their schlock roots, Cannon probably wouldn't have imploded.

I thought their problem was that they modeled themselves on Roger Corman but spent money like De Laurentis. It wasn't the low quality of their cheapjack productions that brought them down (there will usually be a solid return on investment for low-budget genre fare), it was throwing money away on too goddamn many…

The only good car's a dead car!

Actually, the fights in the first Bourne movie are pretty clearly shot. It's only when Greengrass took over in the second one that the cameraman was replaced by a monkey sitting on top of a malfunctioning washing machine.

Who?

Who? And who?

It was ostensibly a prequel, but in practice it felt more like a remake.

"The Fly is the latest ’80s flick to find its way back to the story board: remakes of Overboard and Splash are also currently in development."