He totally turned the “cowards” trope on its ear. 

He’s hilarious as the president in Fifth Element.

Hadn’t thought about that.  Filming those dining hall scenes had to be a complete zoo.

I didn’t care for the increasingly dark palettes.  I like the Hallows movies, but they looked like Private Ryan.

Hallows 2 is such a departure from the others because it’s basically an action movie.  Though the King’s Cross scene is probably my favorite. 

Replace Cusack with Patrick Dempsey.

My main beef with LOTR is way too much super-dramatic slo-mo. Oh, and Bloom surfing a shield down the stairs.

Rogue One is great. An original trilogy-quality Star Wars film through and through.

In the early films at least they had no choice but to hew closely to the books. Young audiences had read them over and over, and there would have been massive disappointment if the movies diverged too much.

She’s a face for several cosmetic and clothing brands. And of course looks like this:

The lived-in element is what makes Hogwarts work. There are all kinds of weird things going on in the background at all times that most people just ignore. The first years might stare for a moment but even they move along quickly so they don’t look like rubes, and in general portraying all of these things are business…

Yeah, name another book release that had people camped out to buy copies at midnight.  I don’t think that’s ever happened otherwise in my lifetime.

Eh, he gets a lot of shit for that accent but I think Basher is fun.

The Hobbit movies make the terrible misstep of turning a brisk, crackling adventure story into a drawn-out, overly serious LOTR companion piece. It’s a 300-page book turned into eight hours of movie.

You know he made “eBay” take 10 seconds to say, while glowering at Penis’ wife (what??).

From what I understand of the casting process, they did exhaustive interviews with the kids’ families, looked at childhood photos of the parents and siblings to get an idea how the kids would would change as they aged, and all sorts of other due diligence. Picking adolescents to play roles into young adulthood in an…

I didn’t like it as much as I expected, as an unabashed Coens fan and appreciator of Jeff Bridges, but Steinfeld is a 1,000% improvement over Kim Darby at Mattie (who was annoying as all hell).

I think he was talking more about the way the audience (and market in general) was going to come to view her.

He was definitely the most natural.

I was sitting here critiquing your ranking when I realized that I’ve caught segments of each of these movies so many times on Sunday cable that I can’t remember which is which.  The only ones I can for sure put in their right places are Goblet (pretty distinctive given the tournament) and the two Deathly Hallows…