Perhaps they will become high-way-men again…

I'm shocked that no one's mentioned that Predator is a really clever meditation on the American experience in Vietnam, all the way to evacuating with your hookup bride back home while the jungle burns.

Man, I still like Logan's Run, but as a technical achievement it's miles behind what Star Wars was able to accomplish. It's also much more self-aware in its kitsch-iness, while (the original trilogy) Star Wars plays it straight.

They only have one story. RO is the fourth time they've told it. Huge universe, one story.

This is only going to cause an epidemic of cow-theft among our impressionable youth.

The end of that book is one of the most grim and grisly things I've ever read, and has stuck with me since I was 10 or 12 or so. You can read so many failures of the human condition into those few pages of cruelty - the sickness at the heart of religious fervor, imperialism, industrialization, mechanization, how both…

Somehow, in the middle of farcical, screwball comedies, the Pythons probably created the most realistic depictions of average life in ancient Judaea (and, perhaps, early medieval Britain) out of any mainstream film ever. To my knowledge.

This sounds like the life cycle of a TV show. Aiming at a franchise before your first movie is even fucking done seems to slowly be coming around to sting the film industry in the pocketbook.

Framing mythology (or quasi-mythology) as essentially, inescapably WEIRD, capital WEIRD, as opposed to gritty, snarky quasi-realism, only helps adaptations of classic folklore, it seems.

Also, a Shakespeare adaptation normally has about 1% of this behemoth's budget, so even if it attracts a niche audience, it's not a disaster.

If you want something with an actually complex plot and crime-esque capers, there's always, y'know, Shakespeare.

Or Excalibur, or The Sword and the Stone.

All modern action/drama movies have that same blue/gray/greenish color palette that has looked terrible since the mid-2000s, and yet people keep watching them.

My question is: How in the world could this movie have cost so much? You have C-listers wearing gunnysacks, carrying swords, and running around castles and countrysides that actually exist! Where'd all the money go?

Well, at some point there will be more Californians than non-Californians, so that's a mark in our favor.

Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding.

and it was downhill from there…

Be careful with your grammar on that last sentence.

It would also be more fun if one was able to say in a mocking manner "This is why Trump was elected" without it being true.

ITT: everyone, ever, perceived as smug.