Haha I thought I was literally the only person who liked Resurrection

it confused me because it referred to sam worthington in one place and jai courtney in another? you really should use consistent naming for that dude

I think the EU had fairly strict rules about what it could do with the core characters

It really is so fun you forget that it's kiinda about sexual assault! Just like 50 First Dates!

I think the comparison I would make is to Alien/Aliens, where the original is just a near-flawless movie (though Alien is a much better than Terminator, I think, Terminator is still one of the most efficient and effective movies I can think of, it just does what it does) and the sequel is a bigger, more flawed, but…

I can kiiiinda see that one, since it flirts with the Star Trek Into Darkness sort of elbowing you and going ehhhh? ehhh? thing with Blofeld, but it spends more time recapitulating the recent movies than it does worshiping the older ones.

I think Creed escapes the sequel as fanfiction thing- like I liked Star Wars but I agree with it on that one, while Creed goes out of its way to give us a protagonist who is a genuinely different guy with a different path than Rocky's, and uses the franchise's past only insofar as it directly matters to someone…

In how much of the movie does the vaguely shitty joke Benedict Cumberbatch's character appears to represent show up?

I would argue that the ultimate narrative arc in No Country is undermining Tommy Lee Jones' viewpoint in any case- and as a character, he isn't far different from Josh Brolin, who is obviously not held up as admirable

incidentally, beloved commentary guy david kalat wrote a reasonably compelling defense of the movie on his movie morlocks blog http://moviemorlocks.com/20…

i mean if the shittiness is inherent to the (admittedly inexplicable) live television musical idea, then i assume that a B+ is relative to what an A would look like within the format. it's a C- with a good curve

i wonder if garry marshall was involved in the bowdlerizing of 'greased lighting'

this was the story that was told. it is not an accurate story. turns out the producers wanted to badmouth the woman they were firing essentially because she was making the movie too interesting and their narrative took????

And by 'growing popular support', you mean 'a growing base of terroristic violence'

I hate the Signs version of divinity, which is basically just bad screenwriting made into an overt plot device

The Coens only became the exception somewhere around O Brother- there are trailers trying to make The Big Lebowski look like a run of the mill buddy comedy out there that go a long way towards explaining why it flopped

The whole joke once they go back to Frey's place is that Stiller feels violated and wants out, and Frey explicitly won't let him go

he's not a sith lord and he's supposed to come off as a dorky teen who is also a powerful murder wizard

Isn't there lightsabery energy within the metal bits too though? like apart from the crystals, it's essentially just a tube full of burning

yeah, dead