Contemporary reviews of The Dark Crystal just make you want to strangle them for dumping on the movie because it’s too dark for 5 year olds, because of course a movie with puppets can only be for preschoolers.

The Shining comes to mind.

Kubrick was nominated for a worst director Razzie the year it came out. Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me was pretty universally reviled when it came out. Halloween 3 also had a cultural re-evaluation

Why regurgitate Peter over and over again when you can do something fresh and different?

Blade Runner (also 1982) was likewise dismissed at the time as well and was both a critical and commercial flop. It wasn’t until a few years later that it became acknowledged as the classic it is.

Psycho (the first one that is)? Office Space? The Last Action Hero? Showgirls?

I was going to posit that maybe Sony wants to sell tickets to a global market where a gay Spiderman would be a non-starter.

Is there a movie that has gone through a more dramatic reappraisal after it left theaters? Like Carpenter’s the Thing has gone from the “quintessential moron movie of the 80's” to “one of the greatest movies ever made” in the years since its release. I’m sure there were movies that were beloved in their time that just…

The Thing is John Carpenter’s masterpiece & my pick for the greatest horror movie. Also I think Carpenter & Kurt Russell are the greatest director-actor team, personally, give or take George Cukor & Katharine Hepburn

I’m not the biggest QT fan but he is right the Thing was awesome and it’s amazing how critics shit on it back in 82.

Exactly. The actual allegations are the important thing, not the unremarkable age difference.

Honestly, I found it hard to like the character of Baby.

No, but she can have consensual sex. Which is what makes you an adult in the eyes of the law in that specific context.

Baby Driver II: Electric Googoogoo

And he wasn’t old enough to drink. They were both kids. I don’t know about the situation, maybe he was extremely shitty, but trying to make it out like he was some old guy preying on teenagers is absurd.

I’ve never heard that qualifier before, I thought the point was that it made sense basically from adolescence up. But hey, I’m not gonna make this my hill to die on - personally would never have dated a 17 year old when I was 20. I just doubt most people would bat an eyelid at that 3-year gap, seems weird to treat it…

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Is someone asking for a Baby Driver sequel?

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