Yep. This is also why Sean Connery and Christopher Plummer have such an interesting filmography. I’m also guessing Samuel Jackson, too.

So they wear gloves or mittens to avoid being on wikihands?

Yeah, “Colors of the Wind” is just an amazing powerful song by itself out of context from the film; in context, it’s beautifully animated ( actually, overall Pocohontas is generally a visually stunning piece of work). It also hints to some clever Sondhiem-ish wordplay.

Tangled, which is overall a pretty great film, is a weird musical. It always feels like they cut out 3 or 4 song in the back half of the movie. it starts out pretty strong, but after “I’ve Got a Dream” it kind of stops being a musical.

Yeah, Hocus Pocus makes no sense to me. I guess it’s decent enough family fare for a holiday that doesn’t have enough movies, I guess. So in that sense I’m glad it was made and that people can enjoy it, but I have a real hard time watching it.

Okay, as someone who likes to build decks based around the themed zone, when I first saw the headline I was like “well, if you don’t want to change your awesome MOVE ( or whatever) deck to deal with a location that you don’t like, then that’s on you”. And if you want more boring zones, you can always put Rhino in your…

The best jump scare that I can think of is Large Marge in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure.

I’ve heard rumors over the years (although never substantiated) that Hollywood writers, in both TV and movies, have a running gag amongst themselves to always portray video games as badly as is humanly possible. Those moments in your NCIS or what-have-you, when the story is centered around a murder at a game…

I feel like whatever movies that come after this one should be cheaper to make in some regard....whatever tech they developed to make #2 is done, so a lot of that cost can come “for free” if you are instantly making 2 extra movies off the tech backbone of that first movie.

It’s been a long time since I tried to play smashup. But I think you are right, the game play is similar...but IIRC found Smash Up infuriating to play because of all the math recalculating you had to do ( not that the math was hard, just that 90% of the game was recalculating conditional math problems). Snap winds up…

On the other hand, I just watched a bit of QT being interviewed on the Howard Stern show, QT was asked if he asks his actors to improvise, and basically said "hell no, you are hired to read my lines". While I get what he's saying, I would also argue that, much like Marvel, you are clearly signing up to be in a…

It should be noted that unobtainium dates back to the 1950s.

Here’s a question...unless you have a financial stake in the movie, why should anyone care how much profit and/or loss it takes in? There’s really no reason to be emotionally invested in a movie beyond “I really liked it and enjoyed it for the price I paid to watch it” or “I hated it.”

I read this and then remember, about 70 percent of the commentators on this website consider Dei Hard a terrific Christmas movie.

Wonderful Life has magical angels. Also going through all of the important events in a person’s life in the past is a fairly strong element of the holiday season ( reflecting on the past, see Christmas Carol or Christmas Story). So there’s quite a bit of “magic of the holiday season” kind of thing going on, even…

Holiday Inn is terrible compared to White Christmas. Fight me!

My wife is Chinese, and she loves that part of Christmas Story.

I’ve been seeing a lot of weird plays that make no logical sense, and I do often wonder if I’ve simply been playing against a CPU Agatha Harkness or something because the server couldn’t match me up with anyone.

Andor is pretty amazing, but I can certainly see why it wouldn’t be popular. Star Wars is pretty much a comfort food brand at this point with pew-pew spaceship battles and space superheroes with laser swords. This is what sci-fi is to many, many people.

Yep. The first GotG worked well because you essentially had everyone in the universe playing straight man to Quill’s adolescent jerkiness. But somewhere along the line they decided “wouldn’t it be funny if EVERYONE was an adolescent jerk” in GotG2. So you get lines like a Ego, a living god planet, saying “I gotta take…