Here’s hoping that the movie opens with Thurman and Theron at a cafe table, sipping tiny cups with the studied calm of a western stand-off. The waiter asks, “baklava?” Just a hint of buried Kill Bill rage crosses Thurman’s face: “no.”

“We will release the Spider-Man Christmas Special every six months until Martin Scorsese apologizes, Twitter bans jokes about Phastos doing Hiroshima,  and the makers of CODA deliver the Oscar to us.”

Huh, was the A.V. Club petulantly sniping at Joker a thing? Unlike most of the known universe that liked the movie?

“This cynical nostalgia piece disappoints at every turn. Take the kids to Top Gun instead.”

Why do we need to go see this derivative, pandering bullshit in the theater when we can just watch 1925's The Lost World literally whenever we want from the comfort of the couch?

Anyone who complains about “Unobtainium” in Avatar( even though that is an actual slang term ) should refuse to see any movie that has a large dinosaur named “Gigantosaurus” in it based on principals alone.

Yeah, I’m just bored as hell.

Opinions like this seem somewhat nostalgia driven. [...] This film clearly isn’t for you so stop acting like it was supposed to be. Jeez.

Randomly last summer when I saw The Suicide Squad the theatre didn’t have the A.C. on. So uncomfortable.

“Everything you don’t need to give a shit about because you’re there for dinosaurs and air conditioning, not the stupid fucking world-building.”

Jurassic World bucks that trend slightly by just fully rebooting things, and with its sequel Fallen Kingdom, director J.A. Bayona does the best job in the entire franchise of picking up the story beats left over from the last movie, and turning them into something new.

I saw Afterlife in 3D Dbox and that was an amazing experience.

No. all of those movies from start to finish are just pure garbage. Akin to the Bayformers. Makes you wonder who the people are that kept paying to see them after the first one.

But past Resident Evil projects have leaned on “hey we have these monsters from the games!” before and still not managed to reliably offer something as compelling and often as camp as to what made the Resident Evil games so beloved in the first place, so time will tell if this latest riff will be able to deliver.

I will add that I thoroughly appreciated The Card Counter, one of Schrader’s most recent films that I watched for Oscar Isaac and found to be very well done.

Yeah, this article is making Schrader sound like Alan Moore, when his actual position does not seem especially surprising or even grudging. The fact that an artist of Schrader’s stature still makes frank and unguarded internet posts is a gift, so let’s not talk about him like he’s some kind of lunatic.

It’s too bad. This series was not exactly good, but it was a striking mish-mash of Ridley Scott’s personal obsessions with a strong enough cast to make all the surreal noodling and biblical portent feel surprisingly like an actual story.

I saw a review on TikTok where the woman said she felt like this movie was just yet another installment of Garland’s need to teach men through the suffering or torture of women, and I think that thread needs to be pulled a lot more. Not that I necessarily agree with it but it absolutely merits a big conversation.

She’s not a final girl, though. She’s the sole protagonist.

I really want to know what Carol Clover thinks about this movie, if indeed she deigns to watch it. The horror movie just seems like a squidgy vehicle for male critiques of maleness, especially when the discomfort of Men (at least for this male viewer) is consistently tinged with other things.