Yeah also got a red flag from “Someday, if I’m ever released from prison, I hope to continue on this path of bettering myself.”

It felt like saying what you think they want to hear but doesn’t make sense when you think about it. If you want to better yourself you’ll be doing it throughout not just when (if) freed. 

It’s clear he is mentally Ill.  His apology to the court rubbed me the wrong way because it seemed to be more about how he ruined his life and less about the life he took 

While I realize it’s a pull quote, it’s really something to apologize for “wasting your own life” after you murdered someone (let alone your fucking mom). 

The broad argument that ASOIAF is inspired by medieval Europe is silly because Westeros isn’t even on planet Earth, but aligning it with the War of the Roses too directly is even sillier. Tell me again which one of John Gaunt’s descendants became a faceless assassin, or had his member removed by a bastard from a rival…

Yeah, I’m fine with Michael Caine playing someone who was born in a British colony.

Saoirse Ronan is just a joy in general.

I’ve called the police twice in my life, both times to report that the contents of my car had been ripped off.

The last good cop show was Southland, which started as a pretty traditional TV cop fantasy* but gradually changed into something meaner and uglier. You still got your weekly dose of procedural dopamine, but you also saw multiple characters sink into corruption, while the two true “good guy” cops found themselves…

It helps that the original was baaaaad.

Kenneth Branaugh swings for the fences, and even when he goes into left field, there’s always something redeeming and coherent in his work (whatever, I thought Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was well cast, but needed finese on the pacing and score).

Happy to see jungle book get number 1. I maintain a major reason that movie works is because it’s endlessly respectful to the original, but also completely willing to deviate from the details and make something more character focused than the cartoon, with a central plot that ends up being largely different from the…

Pete’s Dragon was good. But everything on this list is shitty nostalgia bait.

What about the 1994 Jungle Book with Jason Scott Lee and Cary Elwes?

IIRC the dragon was the only animated part of the original, much like the remake so I guess you’re right - it didn’t start as an animated property.

Pete’s Dragon is really a live action movie with an animated component, not a remake of an animated movie.

Pinocchio made my young son cry at the end because the fuckers at Disney decided setting up a sequel that will, hopefully, never happen was more important then showing the damn puppet boy become a real boy.

Isn’t Pete’s Dragon a live action remake? Got a B+ on AVclub, and it has to be better than Pinnocchio.

I liked Jungle Book and Cinderella but if they had never been made I'd be no worse for wear.  Outside of admiring Cate Blanchett in those dresses that was wonderous.

The Jungle Book wasn’t actually terrible but the rest are a huge race to the bottom

I’ve settled on my ranking looking like this: (Spoilers for #6)