Have you seen Turning Red? It's no Spiderverse, but it's decidedly not Pixar's typical house style either. I think they went in the right direction with it too. They've covered pretty much all the early childhood conflicts and fears in their other movies, preteen girlhood (and I assume boyhood) is so rich in other…

And not even one Bug's Life sequel 🙈

I do also think that their plotting and overall execution is not as good as it once was. Toy Story 3 is one of the most exquisitely plotted and storyboarded movies ever made of any variety. The last Pixar that felt like that to me was Coco, everything since felt like it could have spent another six months in…

Is part of it not also that we've just grown up? 

Every other movie being a sequel is pretty par for the course for Pixar of the past 15 years. Their 2001-2009 run of uniformly worthwhile original films is an extraordinary outlier in the history of all movie studios. I don’t love it, but if they have to crank out a Monsters University so they can roll the dice on…

That’s straining my recollection! IMO Wonderful, No Good Deed, and For Good are solid, but I couldn't speak to general popularity. We sang For Good at my middle school graduation to illustrate how ubiquitous that musical was in the 2000s.

Ironically, the single positive thing I have to say about Gary Oldman’s involvement with Harry Potter is that we can agree he didn’t do a great job. It’s nothing against his acting skill. I just don’t think there’s an actor on Earth who can nail both Commissioner Gordon and Sirius Black’s exhausted, unwilling former…

You might be underestimating the locked-in psychological hold this particular musical has on women of a certain age who are now old enough to want to drag their own kids to see it. I don’t mind splitting it up either. I love the music, but the story of the musical cuts so much necessary material from the McGuire book…

This seems like it’s going to be entertaining! The core of Elle Woods as a character is pursuing goals with unhinged intensity and a naive lack of forethought, a Pollyanna/Anne of Green Gables ability to make friends with the oddest people, and surreal, Barbie-like attention to fashion and design. All of those things…

My only pet peeve is that even though Anya wanted to shave her head, Miller wouldn’t let her. Even the two seconds of bald cap in the trailer are distractingly awful

The show IP is absolutely meaningless to me, I guess I'm too young

Fall Guy hit on some great concepts and ran them right into the ground because of the constraints of the summer blockbuster. The same DNA would work great in other contexts. The pedestrian approach would be a straight documentary or GBBO style competition between stunt performers but I’d prefer five seasons of a…

I can't tell from this comment if you've seen it or not. For me, the marketing was exceptionally bad and made it seem like a try-hard, bland, cookie cutter movie. The actual film is a high B+, low A- depending on if you appreciate the craft of movie-making and how much tolerance you have for self-referential jokes.…

Don’t wait. Forget the technical visual and aural advantages of a theater, The Fall Guy is a movie that needs audience vibes to shine. It’s funny and the practical effects are awe-inspiring and something chemical happens when you're with a large group of other people experiencing joy and wonder.

If it feels modern, it’s because nothing’s as timeless as domestic abuse. Charles Boyer would fit right in as a case study in Jess Hill’s See What You Made Me Do or in any county courthouse DV order hearing.

Do more! It's perfect, studios make more money, nostalgic people get to be nostalgic, current creators are freed from the mind-numbing retread of IP that was big decades before they were born. The only purpose it doesn't serve is creating a new copyright for merchandising purposes.

Take the L for this election cause in 2028, you'll be closer to your eventual goal after four more years of Biden than four more years of Trump and whatever fuckery a 7-2 Supreme Court could do to our electoral system.

I’m partially talking to you and partially to every other high-horse single-issue anti-war or anti-American imperialist leftist who rouses from hibernation every election year and suddenly realizes this is when they take a stand on politics. If you think that way, you don’t need to have foreknowledge of Israel-Gaza in…

That still doesn’t address the fact that people who would choose a protest vote over a centrist Democrat have had EIGHT YEARS to field their own competitive Trump challenger and they still haven’t gotten it done. I wouldn’t trust people that incompetent, slow, or forgetful to walk my dog, much less run the country.

Goddamn cicadas popping up every four years just to make a lot of mess and noise. This conversation has happened every four years as long as I can remember. If no one with your political leanings has the basic competence and organization to amass enough power to mount a serious presidential run + become a meaningful…