I don't know much about Troma films but, from what little I've seen, I assumed they were just goofy exploitation films rather than arch, intentionally bad movies. And Crank doesn't fit in with the Grindhouse aesthetic at all.

RoboCop 2 was made by people who took RoboCop at face value. Like Ebert said in his review, it's mean for the sake of it.

Does it also replace any criticism of Hillary Clinton with the phrase "nothing burger?"

It was particularly cheap because Nocturnal Animals, which came out only a week earlier, actually did that.

I also thought it was incredibly clumsy to wave off them deciphering the language with the montage narrated by Jeremy Renner. It's a major plot point but came across as Villeneuve not knowing how to dramatise it. Admittedly, only Michael Mann and Tony Scott have ever made films where people looking at screens came…

I saw this tonight and feel like you're way off in regards to the twist and how we see movies. As soon as Adams voice over talks about how she doesn't see beginnings or ends anymore, and then ditched the stuff with the daughter until later on, I assumed it wasn't a flashback but the emphasis on the alien language…

I agree, although, in this instance, it made me totally understand why they want native English speakers.

Has anything had such little impact itself but left a bigger influence on culture than Grindhouse? A decade on, we're still getting ironically bad movies that use that irony to justify their badness. It's just not going away and it's all garbage.

I had a Skype interview at the start of the week and it was really strange. I got an email at the end of last week telling me what time it would be, then a follow up a few hours later saying it was Beijing Time. At 2am, I get an email saying they're running late so it'll be at 3am instead. Then it's two people, one…

Yes.

I vividly remember going to the inauguration on the second day of university, having the thing interrupted by the Quidditch society, turning to the guy standing next to me in the line to get into main hall and saying "I've made a big fucking mistake coming here."

Nope.

Let me introduce you to a concept called Capitalism, friend.

That's from the Cronenberg Cut.

After they'd spent a good while destroying a whole city with their fists, I'd assume Zod is strong enough to stop him from doing that until Superman really put some elbow grease in.

This might be the first Batman movie that's kind of admitted Batman is actually bad for Gotham City. The others, namely Christopher Nolan's trilogy, act like his extra judicial brutality is OK because he's rich and has good intentions.

I'm looking forward to seeing that because I assume it's more Batman V Superman stuff instead of more shilling for Justice League.

I'm still mad Superman killed Zod. Why didn't he just crack a joke and keep him around for the inevitable sequels like comic book characters are supposed to do?

I've never bought the main argument about video game violence but I have found it unsettling to see how certain concepts haven't changed but the fidelity of them increase to a level where they're now actually brutal. Compare the difference in getting your spine ripped out in MKII to MKX, for example.

Americans being kind to each other will never happen.