Sounds like the Apocalypse to me.

I don't feel like Katrina is in it for the long-haul of the show. Either she gets killed off or she goes evil. Whatever happens, they need to find an excuse for John Noble to hang around.

-> "These “Even though you are under the grip of an evil spell, I’m going to try and reach you emotionally” conversations are another staple of the genre"

Same for both North and Hook. I would absolutely watch it again if I happened upon it on some channel today. The film isn't any more outrageous than, say, Blank Check or any of the other mid-90s kid films.

Helpful comparison: remember that astronaut lady who wore a diaper, drove hundreds of miles and tried to kill her female rival for another astronaut? Yeah, that's Amy. Batshit crazy.

There is a balance, though. Amy is essentially trapped by Desi. No privacy, no way out, dependent upon him in a way she never has been with anyone, and quickly looses the control she demanded in all other relationships. Strung around in the "friendzone" for decades Desi clearly wasn't going to take "no" for an answer…

The movie absolutely implies, through his sister, that at least part of him wants to stay with her at the end.

It looks so bad. Just…so bad.

I thought of it as the whole list together. The "Cool Girl" does all of those things effortlessly. While it's not impossible to like all of those things to do them all in a way that seems effortless could present a false front.

I've actually tested your theory a few times. I've found it works pretty consistently.

Seconded. Go Royals

Finding Nemo came out a few months after my mother's death. I remember sitting in the theater realizing the mother had died and quietly muttering "goddamn it" as my vision became cloudy.

For some reason the "I knew you were likely to take a wife!" line is what gets me.

I'm overly partial to Wall-E but the part where Wall-E holds his own claws while watching "It only takes a moment" kills me every time. It conveys everything about his loneliness and longing.

Yeah, this is my one in the theater cry where I was the only one moved. I saw the film with my family and started quietly sobbing when Bruce Willis talked to Liv Tyler after he's decided to stay on the asteroid. My brother leaned over to ask if I was okay, but in a tone that meant "what is wrong with you?"

No, but now I'm interested to know what interested him in the project to begin with.

So, he's basically Billy from Hocus Pocus?

I will forever and always feel that no one should have mentioned scientology in connection with The Master. The story didn't even really have anything to do with Dodd's cause. It's Dodd and Freddie and both men's struggle for piece of mind.

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Boogie Nights
3. The Master
4. Hard Eight
5. Punch-Drunk Love
*place holder for every other film PTA will make*
6. Magnolia

I swear, I didn't make the Breaking Bad connection at first and was trying to figure out how this referenced Walt Disney.