I have no dog in the RPO internecine nerd-feud (haven’t read it yet). But the actors in this seem unusually unvivid and unmemorable for a Spielberg flick, and that is a major drawback for me as far as the movie goes. He’s usually aces with casting even down to throwaway parts, but when your villian and hero look…

Ugh, seriously? Er, don’t do us any favors, Ernest...

Crimson Peak was excellent?! Er...no. A good try, but no...

And making Molly a pathetic Mary Sue...blech!

God, “Hounds Of Baskerville” pretty much encapsulated how the show was going wrong. Sherlock being so dickish you wanted to smack him; a offensively weak villian; a mystery way less than the sum of its very lame parts—and one that made you feel stupid for trying to make sense of it. With a heaping dose of…

Ehehehe. Nancy Drew’s partial creator/publisher Wm. Stratemeyer had an iron-clad rule that she was never to be married off/have kids for this very reason. He saw how sales tanked when a Drew precursor got wed.

When I reread it recently, I was struck by how tough and relentlessly ominous it is. L’Engle did not make it easy for her characters—in fact up until the very end, it is hardly a sure bet Meg will survive, much less win. (And the Evil Charles Wallace stuff is straight-up brutal.) Just about every plot twist is a…

Yep—and they fight Necromongers.

Yep. Emma made a point to go so she could experience life outside a movie set. Will Smith’s kids should go to college—they are bright creative kids, but their parents did them no favors raising them to believe celebrity is everything.

Yep. Knowing there’s a life outside of the industry is key.

Yeah, Fanning is miscast here. She comes off too young and doesn’t project the confidence Howard does in the book. As well, she’s putting too-obvious effort into staying in period.

Oh, fuck you. Nassar referred to his victims as “women scorned,” but you are bitching about the judge being “angry, vindictive?” Are you one of the boatload of rape apologists inundating the NYT comment board on the Nassar sentencing article who are hollering about the judge being an evil scolding harpy?

And the major reason why LA has had—what, three—race riots in the past forty years is because of the LAPD’s vicious treatment of black folks.

Yeah, boy—TDC was excellent. The author’s followup, “The Technologists” (1890s MIT profs/students vs. serial killer causing massacres using cutting-edge technology) was quite good as well.

Nah—”Angel Of Darkness” was way better just for its portrayal of a female serial killer—and how the Victorian “domestic angel” strictures literally drove women who didn’t fit those mad. As well, it has a much stronger story. It’s a shame the creators didn’t start with it instead of TA.

One of the very few good things about 2017 was watching NBC lose big for betting on Kelly.

It’s a very 80's movie in that “coddle the cute teenage/20-something leads” aspect. The whole decade was a reaction to the downbeat 70's, and no one wanted to alienate the yuppie/teen audience for this movie.

The original FL wasn’t ruthless enough. The characters’ sins weren’t grevious enough and the movie goes way too easy on them—at least some of them should have bought the farm.

The Mummy was such a perfect shitstorm of uber-budget bad decisions, greed to create a franchise nobody wanted, and star miscasting/miscalculations that there is no reason it shouldn’t have made this list.

Seriously. I’ve worked retail, so I can state with dead certainty that Starbucks baristas are hard-core saints.