I liked Oblivion a lot as well, a cool slow-burn film where Cruise doesn’t realize for most of it that he’s not at all in control of the situation.

Michael Cera specifically can only play hapless, young, nerdy white men. You need Jesse Eisenberg when your character is fully happed.

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One thing I’ll give the BR dealio credit for is that, well, if there is a movie/TV show where the robots/replicants set up a resistant organisation, BR fits the bill much better than others, since the replicants are largely human. And I don’t just mean “Gosh, they look like people”. They actually have, on some level,…

Arnold plays those moments perfectly, and you can tell he’s having way too much fun doing it.

I don’t think people like to think about how effective and irresistible slave societies have historically been. Slave resistance has generally been at most a minor additional factor in their collapses after external disturbances.

I guess this is a hot take but I’ve always thought Now You Don’t was a terrible idea for a title. Funny when said in the same sentence as the title of the first film, but sounds absurd when it’s by itself.

The first Tron made more than Blade Runner on a lower budget.

There’s nothing about “a good crop” in the story “The Lottery.” There is no reason for the ritual given, which is part of why it’s so horrifying. All we hear about the imminent lottery is that other towns seem to be giving it up, which the villagers think is very unwise.

Personally I think both movies are seriously overrated.

As long as their families sign off on it, this is fine imo. Something being weird and creepy doesn’t automatically equate to it being morally objectionable.

Need Big Trouble in Little China on this list

It’s really, really, really large print.

The Lottery and How To Cook for Forty People

Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder. 

Just pretend the book title is “THE LOTTERY AND OTHER STORIES” with the “AND OTHER STORIES” in really tiny type the the sweatshop Koreans couldn’t drawn into the animation. 

Brotherhood of the Wolf was pretty awesome.

Edge of Tomorrow is one of the best sci fi movies of the last 20 years.  I think what made it subversive was the timing of release.  Cruise was at a weird place culturally and a lot of people were amused by the idea of seeing him die a few dozen times.  That’s an unusual marketing hook.

I’m just so glad Last Action Hero is on here.