There's an argument that films such as Star Wars, including Jaws, Indiana Jones, E.T., even arguably movies such as Alien, created the modern film industry. They ushered in big effects (as much a time thing as anything else, at some point effect technology was going to become bigger so the individual movies should not…

One often forgets that a 10% rating on rotten tomatoes means 1 in 10 film reviewers liked it. There is no movie so bad that some one of high intelligence and knowledge cannot find some value and no movie so good that some one of high intelligence and knowledge cannot find it dull and stupid. To find someone who only…

Star Wars comes off very bad in this interview, Simon says it sucks and Siskel and Ebert say its a good children's movie. As approving as they are of the movie I doubt they would look fondly on the minions of adults who cherish this film and treat it as sacrosanct. It also puts in perspective Ebert's positive review…

Oh Funny or Die, what other group can have such good ideas done so poorly. Way to overplay it

This is beyond banal. The messages contradict each other at every turn. The reality is virtually any style will work if done well. You even seem to know this by your "or" and "on the other hand." How to make a good action movie is simple, know your craft, be good at your craft, and have a certain amount of luck. The…

What a waste of a human being

Anyone else make a cognitive jump to Greg the Bunny? I'm not sure the whole underlying connection, but I feel the bunny ears on Green mean something.

Every (real) white girl wearing locs I've assumed smells like weed.

I'd take his "early funnier films" any day, but his new stuff doesn't do light and funny well.

But Blue Jasmine is the only Woody Allen movie that feels like the actor's movie (Blanchett) and not Allen's. Blue Jasmine succeeds in spite of Allen. Like Eastwood it appears that Allen is in a rush to complete films. Many of his recent efforts feel like kernels of movies that seem unfinished yet he has rushed them…

That might be one of the best message board owning I have ever seen. Well done you.

HOMER! HOMER! and a poor analysis, an embarrassing piece that makes Mr. Teti look bad, the man more or less proves he cannot be trusted in analyzing info because of his own bias. There is little reason to place the Patriots as some nemesis that Goddell is trying to strike down for parity sake. Or that the nfl does…

He's just a sad Patriots fan who like many others (by others I mean fans and not particularly Patriots fans) is willing to accept cheating if its lets his team win.

I wonder if the divergence on this episode is based on whether you like bad movies or not. All the bad film references were just bad for me and not funny. So all the jokes about being a cheap movie, a Community Sci-Fi "The Room" you could say, fell flat for me and maybe the reviewer. Meanwhile the AVClub community…

Yea, I think Greenwald thought the American people cared more about their civil liberties, so despite tons of horrifying stories of what has come out Americans were over it. The population after the initial stories were waiting for some Tom Clancy/Marvel comics shit and did not care when the reality was constant…

Clearly a weak year…

I think there is an issue with an individual choosing to write women and an institution not writing women. If John Lasseter doesn't write women its not too bad, however Pixar as a company doesn't write women we have a problem. The difference is an individual creating and a system that hires lots of individuals who…

I can't understand how it got so high as a B! It was cute, but none of the actions of the individuals makes sense. They go from enemies to best friends in seconds, and for no reason that makes anywhere near enough sense. It borders on a bizarre sentimentalism of a Disney's kids movie while being clearly written for…

This episode is the perfect example of why Suburgatory has failed so miserably in this season and even large parts of earlier season. Tessa realizes how abusive and horrible Chatswin is, attempt to comment on it, gets a little pretentious/snotty, apologizes and says the old way (which was legitimately abusive and…

But the whole show has been about hopes and dreams returning to reality. It is amazing story telling, just not popular story telling. The ability to complete decimate a "life changing event" into a compromised reality, has been a consistent goal of the show, and a more honest approach to life. [Again partially…