I think it can’t be underestimated just how much, for Lucas, the original trilogy at the time was a project compromised by the fact that it was funding what he saw as his real legacy in Skywalker Ranch. As he saw it, Star Wars became what it was in no small part because he had a collection of brilliant filmmakers in…

Yeah, I do think we’re supposed to take it seriously. Though I do think sometimes audiences consider that request (in general, not just with this film) a bigger ask than it is. Yes, I can take a teenager getting all woo-woo about a plastic bag seriously. It doesn’t mean I have to pledge allegiance to his worldview.…

Ohhh. OK. Now I know what people mean by that phrase. I assumed they meant the shots with the bullets.  

Fuck, I love Princess Mononoke. It is such a lovely, heart-wrenching movie and the art direction is, of course, unimpeachable. I think it is Miyazaki’s finest story and certainly one that is still prescient today. I encourage everyone to see it if they haven’t.

This movie has been a weird part of my life for 32 years—

my absolute favourite line, and one of my favourite lines to end a movie (though it’s not the final line):
“What’s wrong?”
“(crying) I’m confused!”

I absolutely adore movies and stories that effectively tackle and acknowledge all the various at-times-conflicting things in the world and then address people’s inadequacies…

That was my first thought. Her hair is magnificent.

When Moonstruck was released into theaters I was a very young teen boy who had very definite opinions about life and people that were completely wrong. I remember all too well seeing the trailer for the film and being completely turned off by Nic Cage’s wild haired, wife-beater wearing character. There’s a scene in…

Holly Hunter in Raising Arizona is a one of the most underrated comedy performances of all time.  She just completely kills it in the role.

I like part where they're making out and she suddenly shouts "WAIT!" stares at him for a beat, and then they resume making out.

There was something like an 18-year age difference between Cher and Cage, and it's a testament to their chemistry (and how good Cher looked at 40) that it's not really noticeable.

This is one of the first movies my wife and I bonded over, so it comprises a significant portion of our shared reference genome. Aside from the delightfully batshit “I LOST MY HAND I LOST MY BRIDE!” monologue, which I’m pretty sure we both can perform by memory, there’s:

It’s interesting, I went back and took a look a while ago and I think there’s a pattern of pretty much every person in a scene with Ozymandias suggesting a different outcome to what he thinks must be done ends up being hurt or killed because of part of his plan. There’s a woman talking about her belief in peace who…

that’s why Cassidy’s new obsession with The Big Lebowski was the one of the smartest things that the Preacher TV show did, btw. Because it felt like something that Ennis would have actually put in the comic book if he’d written it recently.  Obviously, it got old after a few repetitions, but I think it showed a…

He’s on a very intense training regimen of uphill ice skating.

Also, to an extent he’s still a bit getting used to being a parent - not sure how much time has passed since El moved in but it’s still got to be a bit “thrown in the deep end” - especially as a single parent

Once, I met a cowrker’s husband for the first time, and as I shook his hand, he said with great conviction, “Our son is in theater, and Laura and I think that’s great.”

Yeah Squamate Primate is a troll that doesn’t like how I talk about comic books and seems to think his repeated flaggings for being a troll are the result of some grand conspiracy rather than it just being because he’s an asshole.

The analogy I was going to use was it’s like saying an oil tanker “creates more fuel than it uses.”

The big version with crayon drawings is;