Avatar is one of those blockbusters that was really huge at the time, made a bajillion dollars, blew up the internet and then afterwards just completely dropped off the cultural landscape, it left like no impression.

This is not the first time that one of Cameron’s movies has sounded like an overpriced disaster. Both Titanic and Avatar faced the same kind of pre-release doomsaying as these sequels.

I know it’s my nerd bias talking, but “Into the Spider-Verse” deserved the best picture for that year. It checks off all the boxes. Great story, great performance, great writing, great acting, visually stunning and technically marvelous. (googles Oscars for that year) Frickin Green Book?!?

I’m not sure if I would disagree with the ranking, but I wanted to point out that Far From Home has the best climactic fight of any of these movies, IMHO. Also, the best climactic fight of any solo MCU movie.

Unpopular opinion: Having recently rewatched the Tobey Spider-Man movies (only watched them once each when they first came out), I couldn’t believe how poorly they aged (mostly acting & the CGI). I remembered liking them a lot initially but good god, there’s not a whole lot to like.

Ore wa Gundam de iku!

Spielberg is just too strong a craftsman to make a dull movie out of sci-fi escapism; I just kinda felt like his interest was more with the Rylance character, and he was kinda going through the motions with the actual leads.

And I couldn’t find Hook playing on cable nor any of the streaming services I had to watch it for comparison. I may pay the $4 and rent it because I’m now interested in how it could pander to audiences more than RPO.

Fincher was one of the first directors Kathleen Kennedy talked to after the Disney sale (he’d worked for Lucasfilm when he was a teenager in the early ‘80s and his name appears in the credits for RotJ), and apparently his power lunch pitch started out with him saying “You know, I’ve always seen the droids’ situation…

It makes me wonder if he’s ever read a Spider-Man comic. Because what he just described is *Spider-Man*.

As someone not of that generation, the kids aren’t wrong. The prequels are horribly acted, directed and poor attempts at filmmaking, but as usual, Lucas really knows how to build out lore and it informs so much of what is now canon in SW that people can’t help but re-evaluate it as “not bad” despite the obvious flaws…

It seems to be an article of faith among people over 40 or so that the prequels are complete and utter garbage with no redeeming qualities at all. And this seems to have less to do with the movies themselves — which, to be fair, are flawed — than the endless storm of vitriol that surrounded the movies from 1999-2005.

Ah, nostalgia, *sigh*. I feel sorry for anyone that wasn’t 11 years old when the original Star Wars came out. They’ll never know what it felt like to see the Imperial Star Destroyer slowly fill the screen in 70mm with rumbling THX sound in Westwood for the first time. You have to be a “primitive” child raised without…

I think the Matrix doesn’t get the same sort of re-evaluation that the Prequels do because the Prequels appealed to a generation of kids who grew up loving them (or at least enjoying them without the nostalgic fanaticism for the OT) even if older fans largely rejected them.

I’ve never loved The Matrix Reloaded and I didn’t this time. But I do think it’s hugely ambitious, technically marvelous, and borderline audacious how far it pushes the franchise away from what audiences thought it was. That it divided the fan base makes so much sense....

That he even mentioned it now means any potential GB2 would not feature Vigo. He’s not going to give away his real ideas.

That’s hilarious, because Young Adult was the movie that pretty much turned me off of Jason Reitman. I despised Charlize’s character so much (love Theron though) that it made me re-evaluate his previous movies. He has a schtick that he tends to repeat.

Well played.

Even if Ghostbusters 2 was more loved, it is still not a great sign that the only ideas for this franchise are “Hey remember this thing that they already did?”

“Oh well, people were just super racist back then” just never seems like a good argument. No, they weren’t. Some people were. Lovecraft was. But there were plenty of people who weren’t racist who lived at the start of the 20th century, and who spoke out against racism openly.