I hate that movie as much as anyone, and find her performance in it excruciating, but that’s what was asked of her, so it wasn’t her fault.

His subsequent behavior notwithstanding, Spielberg saw his talent and potential over a course of years, and so did I. With all due respect, you’re not a better judge of screen acting talent than Spielberg.

I didn’t see it, but would the Angelina Jolie movie Salt qualify/be in the ballpark? And by “everything else staying the same,” do you include the love interest being a woman? (Please say yes.)

Prior to the first Hunger Games movie in 2012, there simply weren’t genre/action/fantasy movies fronted by young women that were big hits in the US. (Okay, the first Twilight did well enough in ‘08, if we must count that, but both the Hunger Games and Twilight series had the home field advantage of being American…

Most of us humans experienced corona-setbacks this year, so Nolan’s objections, whether fairly or unfairly, sound a lot like whining, particularly when he was pushing theaters to re-open before a vaccine was widely available, and when his artistic output so far has been... not the most interested in questioning the…

“Getting lightning to strike twice is not as easy as latching onto intellectual property in the same genre and thinking the same strategies will play out the same way.” 

Highly paid mega-corporation employee is shocked to learn that mega-corporation is more powerful than him, will do what it pleases.

Yes, but that was a year in which other actual blockbusters also came out.

Well, it wasn’t howlingly egregious, like when Holdo made a face at Poe after verbally dressing him down in TLJ. But that’s a low bar. :P

I liked her in Black Panther too, but the “LOL, Shuri makes Bruce Banner look like a dum-dum!” moment in Infinity War was... not my favorite beat in that movie.

Hey, Chinese government authorities deliberately censored and suppressed growing evidence of a global plague, while actively running concentration camps and engaging in ethnic/cultural cleansing, and an English-language movie featured a dumb pun. It all balances out!

The assessment is entirely correct. The Hand ninja stuff that dominated the back half of S2 was execrable.

Well, I think the Bond franchise is just okay (apart from the title songs, which I mostly love), and while spy/gunfighting flicks are common, especially with the M:I series going strong, the Langdon movies’ Art History 101 crossed with Indiana Jones at least brings something different to the table.

Hey now, the Langdon movies are more consistently entertaining than Bond films, and In the Heart of the Sea is freaking great.

Mary Malone = Rachel Weisz, of course.

I will never understand why Subway “restaurants” and their sandwiches are a thing when burritos are just as cheap to make, and easily ten times tastier.

I watched half of this before giving up in boredom a few weeks ago. It wasn’t the agonizing cringefest that was Juno, but it wasn’t suspenseful, engaging, terrible, fun, or interesting, either. It was just... a nothingburger.

“Wonder Woman (2017) was a hasty rehash of the first Captain America and Thor films, written by four men with a combined fourth-grader’s grasp on history, which skirted by on the novelty of a female superhero, Gal Gadot’s incredible charisma, and adequate direction from Patty Jenkins,” Snudbert Flunderkip, Vice…

Nah, that’s the series completely misrepresenting Lyra yet again - she’s not an egoist because she lived in luxury and was taught she was superior to others, she’s an egoist because she grew up with unusual autonomy and tolerance, but without the emotional support that gives a child the strength to embrace…