This video guy reminds me of OUR video guy in my country. But with us it was Bollywood movies with Bachchan, Dutt, Khan (Aamir, Dil is STILL one of my favorite movies of ALL TIME).

They wouldn't be liberals if they didn't have an agenda. Everybody knows that.

"our own man on the scene, Mike D’Angelo—were quick to note that the film was basically business as usual for Loach" This almost made me go mental. Wtf does it mean? I also read someone call Farhadi's films "schematic". Next one f****r will sigh, shake his head and complain about why these filmmakers keep on making…

Either Miller and his gang don't know a masterpiece when they see one or the critics had an agenda with their hoisting of Toni Erdmann to the highest average rating in the history of the (critic's) poll.

I'm sure some people in China feel the same with TFA.

I grew up watching Bollywood-movies. Most people who watch them would have difficulties remembering about the characters, but most associate the films with specific actors and the stories. That's how most people relate to a piece of fiction.

He COULD die this hour. Anything CAN happen. But 1) it won't, since making the highest grossing film means something for Fox. 2) From what I can remember no Fox movie that's not a Cameron movie has made a billion. 3) In Hollywood you fail upwards. Case in point: Zack Snyder getting to make two Justice League movies.

So what are memorable filmmaking in your opinion? The latest installment in Disney's attempt to make the stock pop?

Most stories go like this: good, normal person in everyday life. Then something happens to said good normal person and he or she must go on a quest/adventure to gain back what he or she lost. Good wins over evil forces. The end.

Names matter less than the function of characters in the story. They could've called them person A or Mr Blue and it wouldn't change a thing.

That's Best Picture-nominated rehash of Dances With Wolves to you.

By the time Avatar 2 comes China will be the number 1 film market in the world. With the fickle Chinese government, the only question that'll matter is if Avatar 2 gets in there like the first one did. If it does, then Avatar will do Star Wars business there. Not just because Avatar was such a big hit, but because…

I abhor assembly line filmmaking, something TFA was, and Disney's latest movies are. You should notch up your expectations for blockbuster filmmaking.

Disney's assembly line filmmakers send their regards.

Really? Nobody? Not even for making 3D firm thing in the business? And what studio wouldn't want to be in business with the only director that's made billion dollar grossers for them that even Star Wars, a black plague upon North America, couldn't touch?

Seriously. Aliens? Only remember Ripley. My favourite film; A Separation; only remember Nader and Simin. I'm more interested in the story, setting, ideas, technology etc, than being a fan-boy and using time on the clothes and insignia of characters.

If Oscar nominations, nor box office legs at least give as a basis for NOT dismissing a film as 1) quality-wise exellent, and 2) financially a blockbuster, then what metric should we use to decide these things?

Since when is remembering names= quality? It isn't. Most people go the movies to forget about the troubles of everyday life, not to obsess about the gown and back-stories of characters.

The money and the Oscars say something different. Even George lambasted TFA for its re-hashing of the same stuff he did 4 decades ago.

The most interesting filmmaker in Hollywood.