On the other hand:

This movie is the superhero equivalent of Gus Van Sant’s shot-for-shot Psycho remake.  You can’t just Xerox art and expect to make art.

I can see how if you read the books, where the author apparently describes Jack Reacher’s long limbs in florid detail over and over again, it would be annoying to watch the movies and see Tom Cruise.

Day of the Dead had a talking zombie, Bub.

That actor (Angus Macfadyen) gave a pretty good performance given what he had to work with, but Gibson is always setting up him as an oafish Judas figure who only does the right thing after Wallace makes all the tough sacrifices.

How wanted, though? Hank and Gomez never showed anyone that video of Jesse confessing to everything. In fact, the DEA never knew he was in custody or present for Jack’s attack on Hank and Gomez. He disappeared for months while he was kidnapped and the authorities would probably assume Jesse had been murdered by…

I still can’t believe that we got a full Future War movie that took place entirely after the robo-apocalypse, but it was so boring and forgettable that it feels like we still never got it.

Why are you commenting on here when you could be running a major studio?

It’s pretty shocking to see how thoroughly the DCEU failed. I mean, it’s not shocking to anyone who saw Batman v. Superman or Justice League, but it would have been hard to imagine when they first announced Affleck as Batman that the whole thing would collapse after only a few horrible movies.

It really bothers me that in Homecoming, Peter Parker doesn’t have the Spidey suit for the entire third act. He’s not Spider-Man when he’s wearing a blue hoodie and goggles!

Also, Soon-Yi is now 47 and she’s had nearly 30 years to accuse Allen of that.  They’re still married.

You raise a very interesting point, which is that film as a medium is not very good at depicting institutional problems like racism, corruption or dogmatism. Screenwriters usually condense all of the institutional problems into one human antagonist with maybe a henchman or two, and when that character is defeated the…

My wife thought we were about to get a Walter White cameo when Gus entered the chemistry wing. It had already been spoiled for me that Gale showed up, but then I realized the worst possible direction this series could go — what if it turns out that Gus gave Walter White cancer so that he would break bad and cook the…

I remember they tried to make it a -Gate thing but the press could never agree on whether to call it Monicagate or Clinterngate or Lewinskygate and so forth.

Nope, here in the States, if an actor says “I do” while filming a wedding scene, that means the actors are married in real life.

Movies that claim to be “based on a true story” have to be held to a different standard. Every such movie compresses actual events, creates composite characters, streamlines the plot, and they nearly always fabricate the climax to make it more suspenseful and exciting than anything that happened in real life.

If Walker was alive that ending would have made no sense. As it stands it was a really weird extended acknowledgement that everyone in the audience knew Paul Walker died before production was completed, but they didn’t want to kill off his character in a gas station explosion in the last five minutes. The whole…

And the funny thing is that less than 10 years ago, the Democrats really did control EVERYTHING with the presidency, a large House majority, and a supermajority in the Senate, yet still couldn’t get much done.

There’s sort of a paradox to collector’s items — they only accrue value when nobody is collecting them. Nobody took children’s funny pages seriously in the 1930s so most kids’ moms threw out Action Comics #1 at the end of the month. If the public knew how valuable those comics would become, everyone would have…

Ever since Connery the series has had an issue with casting actors a little old for the role. Connery was 32 in Dr. No, but Moore was around 45 when made Live and Let Die, and Dalton, Brosnan and Craig were all around 40 in their first movie. It’s all well and good for that first entry (Bond should have a little…