The first few trades (High Society, Church and State, etc) were actually really good. Sim's degeneration into madness is one of the most heartbreaking things I've seen.

I was actually completely on Nurse Ratched's side until that guy killed himself. I sympathized with wanting an orderly, well-running place of peace and quiet and defending it from Nicholson the grandstanding jackass.

They actually did have enough material. I know because I read the manga. This makes the pacing problem you mentioned more confusing.

I thought Attack on Titan got way more interesting after I finished the anime and started reading the manga that hadn't been adapted yet.

Birdman is what I can think of off the top of my head. I really like the style and the actors in it, but the idea that the film is stealthily endorsing Riggan's whiny, self-destructive thoughts about how everyone wants to keep him from making beautiful art, maaaaaan, keeps me from really liking the movie.

My biggest issue with this logic is that it leaves out Final Fantasy V, which should have gotten a timely Western release. The story was nothing to write home about, yes, but it has one of the best gameplay systems of the series.

As I read this list for the first time, I checked to see their Netflix ratings, or my rating, if I'd seen them already. I got to Haywire, and saw that I'd already given it three stars, and went "I already saw this? When?" I'm going to assume I agreed with you, except you remembered it and I didn't.

It's the one of the trilogy I liked rewatching the most, weirdly enough.

I thought that was funny, actually.

But is it at least better than American Hustle?

Mean stereotypes are Fincher's bread and butter, man.

The cool girls monologue kind of puts a lie to that. I think it definitely has intentions to say something about relationships, implicitly condemning the kind of men who look at folks like Amy and say "bitches be crazy, right?," ignoring what makes them supposedly go crazy. Maybe the film failed at making this clear,…

I would rather clean out twenty cat litterboxes than listen to the final villain monologue in Scream.

The paradox when a movie implicitly insults people as gutter trash for liking the genre it's in (unless you're in on the joke or whatever) is a paradox I find hypocritical and infuriating. It reminds me of the part in Birdman where the theater critic shallowly praises Riggan's hollow stunt performance, implying that…

I also thought that Cabin in the Woods wore out its welcome pretty quick, but I loved it the first time around, which is one more time than Scream. Scream was more boring, had more irritating dialogue, and it also had Matthew Lillard acting an awful lot like Simple Jack. The only advantage it has over Cabin is the…

Those are the only Wes Anderson movies I've seen so far, with Grand Budapest being my introduction to him. I liked them both, though I'm not sure why every shot is almost perpendicular to a wall, and I don't think I know enough to say which is better yet.

I'm kind of glad Birdman didn't make this list. As pretty as the one-shot cinematography was and as good as the performances were, it kind of boils down to being a beautiful temper tantrum.

What is Snowpiercer being meta about, then?

I think they didn't characterize Ramona well, period. The Ramona of the comics was fun to be around, as well as being a mature, mysterious girl that would attract Scott as a forbidden fruit. The movie made her cold and unattractive to anyone who wasn't as delusional as Scott. I guess that was the point, but I didn't…

Also, the only time Scott ends the series with Knives is the original ending that Wright planned to make, but changed when he heard the comics ended with him and Ramona. In the comics, Knives says that since it's been a year since the start of the series, she's grown to see that Scott isn't as cool as she thought he…