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Maybe he wouldn’t have been so bored if he actually did any acting in Divergent.

At the end of the day, Shatner was probably a jerk then and now, but I also don’t get why Takei keeps this alive after decades (because he’s definitely the one doing so.) Both of them should grow the hell up. 

Because she’s hot.

And why is this being celebrated instead of being called out as extremely toxic?

According to McKean there was a cut scene where he tells them they’ve overshot Chicago by about a hundred miles (which a navigation app also would have told them).

I would put Bridge of Spies higher up.  A very nice low-tech thriller that asks the audience to pay attention.  Mark Rylance was absolutely perfect in it.

West Side Story was gorgeous, but we already had a near-perfect version of that movie already. And Ansel Elgort is an OK singer until the point when literally anyone else is singing with him and blowing him out of the water. Rachel Zegler was radiant, but I kept watching the movie wondering why it existed.

It’s not a horrible list. I have a soft spot for The Terminal - I don’t think it’s great, but as far as Spielbergian sappy endings go, that film seems to demand one, so I always end up kind of liking it.

OK, kept going, and gotta say War of the Worlds is WAY too fucking high on the list. It looks great, sure, and the opening invasion is truly thrilling, but 2 hours of Dakota Fanning screeching and an eye-rolling happy ending left me with an indifferent shrug. I usually don’t rail against the rankings in lists like

I’ve never seen E.T. Was 17 when it came to theaters. Saw everything else of the era but that. And still haven’t seen it. Someday.

This list is a travesty. 

TV didn’t exist before 1990, apparently.

I only read the list to see whether they made the mistake of not ranking it number one.  To leave it off the list entirely is unfathomable.  “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly” is one of the greatest lines ever.

I’m glad Barsanti lets us know his politics in every article, whether it has anything to do with the subject of the piece or not. “Well, I’m not sure how I can write about Emily Blunt without sharing my position on America’s drug war. It’s inescapable!”

I guess I haven’t really gotten the sense that most younger women view their sexuality as a curse, exclusively or even mostly. That’s different, maybe even diametrically opposite, from not wanting to be shamed for it.

You don’t know how entertainment is packaged and sold, and the value of an above-the-title star. This movie was released in 2002. Friends was still running at the time and still atop the ratings. Matthew Perry was one of the most famous people around. He almost certainly said “No,” to dozens of other potential

Passengers sucked, but its problems weren’t the result of being a sci-fi film. It was:

Passengers, even if not Amazing, is a pretty decent movie overall. It would have been 100x better if the story had been told from the perspective of Lawrence’s character first, but still.

Whoever wins, we lose.

I’ve long loved ‘Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace.’ Both for the overall brilliance of adapting the film, but also because Martin’s death in the middle of class remains my favorite ever visual gag in the entire series.