IMDB says he is working on another Hotel Transylvania movie. Are you going to wipe an entire province of Romania off the map? What will happen to the Transylvanian Festivalul Medieval Cetăți Sibiu? Will this mean the end of the Salina Turda salt mine? The greater Carpathian region would lose an important source of…
To be fair, that stuff is really cool, it’s just better suited for a separate IMAX documentary like the one that came out later.
He would have gone out to the tobacco store for a minute and never come back, after he had pocketed the necklace of course.
I think the framing devices for both are pretty awful and unnecessary, and I am guessing that there was some kind of powerful dogma operating that audiences would rebel and burn down the theater without some kind of tie in to the present that establishes a theme in excrutiating detail.
I imagined an extremely long marriage where she let her husband know every single day that he was a consolation prize.
As far as 90s historical blockbusters that cleaned up at the Oscars, I vastly prefer Titanic to Braveheart. I think Cameron was smart about constantly reframing the story away from the big history to treat it as a story about ordinary people. Braveheart was endlessly trying to pump up the story to FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!…
I think Avatar sold a ton of tickets only because of Titanic. Its sales were definitely a lot more front loaded than Titanic, which lasted for a very long time in theaters, and I think a lot people just trusted Cameron would do it again. The 3D novelty was also a big selling point that will motivate nobody to buy a…
The one section I don’t think holds up is the framing device in the present day. It felt really clunky to me in a lot of ways — old Rose’s presence felt forced, the exposition seemed really mechanical, and it made the movie longer than it it could have been.
What they said is that the door could have stayed bouyant enough to keep both far enough out of the water to survive when the lifeboat came IF they had thought about tying the lifejacket to the underside of the door. Which was, of course, not something you would expect from someone in that kind of situation, and would…
It could involve reincarnation, which might not be so disturbing.
The thing to note is that this isn’t a good business decision — they could sell more ads for a last minute slideshow of NBC’s favorite Princess Di photos, or a Law and Order rerun from 2004.
Miami Blues (also with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Skinny Alex Baldwin) is huge fun if you haven’t seen it.
I completely fabricated it. As far as I know, Benjamin Franklin’s John Hancock didn’t shatter into a little Button Gwinnett.
Well, there was the letter he wrote to Jefferson in 1780:
Tastes vary of course — so far I’m loving this season, it’s up there with the second season for me.
How old is the Angel of Death trope? I know it goes back as least as far as the aunts in Arsenic and Old Lace.