God I hated the Scarlet Pimpernel. Hated, hated hated it. With a passion.

Even as a I kid I felt very uncomfortable during their musical scenes, cause they dropped their comedy masks and you could glimpse a vaguely sad middle-aged man enjoying a break from his bread-winning clowning routines.

I totally agree. That romantic couple almost murders the whole picture. Though that moment when the young tenor has just eaten and feels "like a million bucks" the Marx guys prompt him to show it by bursting into opera singing is a magnificent piece of unintentional comedy for me….

Tis indeed…

I think there might be many approaches to embodying an evil character like that. As a mental disease that clicks on and off depending on the situation; as a sort of drunkenness that takes over once violence starts…
One might make a distinction between visceral racists who need to get their hands dirty and commit acts…

I can imagine Carrie Fisher grinning and growling from behind the shelf "Oh, so NOW you wanna read me, baby… NOW you can't wait to get your hands on my booKs…tsk tsk…"

Actually, that should be a reason for optimism. BR was a triumph of atmosphere over plot. I love BR as much as anyone else, but the bar is so low storywise I think the new one could be a really cool movie. Of course, they probably can't top such an iconic ending as "…tears in the rain etc.",…

I'm afraid you're being overoptimistic there… If we're on the brink of catastrophic climate change without adding a thermonuclear war to the mixture, who knows what a war capable of killing off 99% of the population would cause. I'd think hunger, disease, radiation, natural disasters and Mad Max-like strife would do…

Oh, good one, Mr Barr!

Gee, for a second I was worried…

If no one's still counting, the number's utterly meaningless, though, huh?

What does 2049 even mean if no humans are around?

Oh God. I read it as June the 10th. *Panics*

Relax. World wars always break out in the summer. I'm sure we'll get to watch this one before everything goes south.

Your guess is as good as mine. And I agree it is so refreshing to find blank spaces in movies where one can speculate without doing an injustice to the film. Of course the story has to be rich enough to encourage such speculation in the first place…

Absolutely. Time is circular.

True. Could be worse. Look at poor Chris Evans, having the time of his life in the MCU. Sorry, misspoke: Having his LIFE in the MCU.

Empires of the Deep looks fresh as recycled shrimp from some 70s cocktail party. Yumm!

Wow, that woman holding the baby looks like she's begging T. to accept the sacrifice of her first born and eat it for dinner. No wonder the child looks so alarmed…

He's the only film actor I can think of who really acts more with his shoulders than with his face…