Their audience is so gullible they don’t need to.

Pretty on board with Mann’s assessment of Blackhat. The core plot is great and it has a villain’s plan that makes more sense than 99% of hacker movies. But the pacing is all over the place, the characterisation forgettable, and the climactic action sequence only works because of all the great ancillary shots and…

‘We can’t put Nazis in a G film!’

It really does make one boggle at the thinking of major studios when they want a toy/merch bonanza...directed by Verhoeven.

Hannibal? It was nice of AMC to protect teens from disappointment.

The psychedelia in 2001 is not drug-related so would probably get a pass, but yeah the violence and deaths wouldn’t.

You mean there might be space-rollerskate action scenes and sexual tension between a woman and a genetically enhanced dog? I can hardly wait!

They missed the obvious casting opportunity when they overlooked Ron Jeremy for the part of Sonic the Hedgehog.

John Carpenter of Mars?

The best Neil Gaiman fan entitlement story is the time a minor scandal blew up about another author and a small but vocal number of his fans were incensed that he did not blog about it (or anything else) for about a week...when he finally blogged that he had been away, out of internet contact, and unable to post about…

Good luck with that. Even if they set it 500 years in the future, somehow every character will be a descendant of one of the original SW characters.

The goats are a minor running gag that never quite lands, and yet they’re one of the better ideas in the film. In an otherwise good movie, it would be a minor detraction easily overlooked. In T:L&T it’s a glowing beacon of everything wrong with the movie.

The obv choice is Michael Cera.

Cognitive dissonance is at the top of the charts.

Thank you for doing the research because I don’t want to go anywhere near that.

I like to think of his agent putting his arm around Zac’s shoulders and saying, ‘Look, kid, I know it’s not what we want, but your last few films tanked and every time you open your mouth at pressers you drive away another 10% of the audience. So, no, it’s not ideal, but on the plus side you could be the next Kevin…

It’s true. I was about to buy a ticket to the new Shazam movie when I got a text from the studio’s Chief Troll Officer telling me not to go.

Completely agree. Even knowing nothing about the contractual and conservatorship issues Oher is now looking into, that film was racist AF and Bullock chose to star in it because the role was award-bait.

You could be right, but I’m not convinced it’s anti-semitic. There are about a dozen conservative hate targets he could be referring to. Maybe if he’d mentioned space lasers...

The problem is this: