“Current Pixar standards”? Elemental was a decent movie and I though Turning Red was pretty good. Those and Luca were all fairly original films.

The Bear just changed the music montage as we know it

I’m with ya. Over at Slate, Jack Hamilton has a piece about how he thinks the series has altogether fallen off in terms of quality, and for him the main culprits are lack of character and plot development (filling in characters’ backstories, he points out, isn’t the same thing as moving forward), as well as an…

I was thinking “this is really well shot and looks super expensive” but it didn’t really get me emotionally like a lot of the other episodes have. 

I’m gonna have to rewatch this, cause I had a hard time with it. I was so hungry for plot movement, and it had little. But this does a beautiful job of highlighting how this show uses tension and provokes anxiety, and this episode had that in abundance. 

I really enjoyed about half of the episode…then I wanted to say, “ok, I get it…let’s move on.”

I liked the concept of this episode, but not for a season premiere.

The more I watch this show, the less I like it. The extreme gore, violence, and nudity has gotten dull and the satire is smack you across the face obnoxious (I agree with what they’re lampooning and I’ve seen Kripke’s comments about people somehow confusing the themes of the show but it doesn’t make it fun to watch).…

It should be Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2.

Just want to say two things:

1) This was an excellent, well-written article more than four paragraphs long about a movie that doesn’t get enough attention and (critically) not a bunch of stupid click-bait. Huzzah.

2) Glad to see I’m not the only one that likes The Terminal. I thought the general consensus was that it…

I loved The Terminal, even if I wouldn’t call it Top Shelf Spielberg. I don’t have a problem with suspending my disbelief (is it a New Yorker thing to care whether JFK ever had that quarter-dispensing return cart system?), but Tom Hanks’ performance - as delightful as it is - doesn’t always convey that he’s…

*stands alone outside Adult Swim headquarters with a tiny hand-printed sign with a picture of a bean arch on it*

I haven’t seen Luca, but Turning Red was a blast, and I liked, Soul, too.

I feel like people forget how recent Luca and Turning Red are when talking about Pixar, they obviously got Fuuuuucked by the D+ release but I keep hearing “Pixar has sucked for years!” and then, when reminded of the D+ ones, respond “Oh yeah, those were pretty good actually.”

I love Bigger Longer Uncut, but the funniest thing about it to me was seeing the trailer in the theater (I don’t even remember what it ran in front of). As Cartman was revealed, a guy in the audience let out a big weary but amused “Ohhh boy...”, and I’ve been thinking about that for 25 years now. I like to imagine…

He’s not. He was perfectly lovely when the AV Club threw the first ever Pete and Pete reunion, and he remains kind and lovely to this day.

I’m chalking it up to the misguided assumption that Furiosa was going to be a monster hit, and when it underperformed, people thought, “Well, the problem can’t be the movie, so it must be movie theaters!” in addition to a successive string of abnormally sluggish weekends for the box office.

Bad Boys 4 beating expectations is absolutely the headline, but the biggest shock might be Furiosa dropping out of the top 5. Even Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes hung in there (and is doing pretty well! Just saw that it has surpassed the previous movie’s domestic gross already).

People who like word puzzles? I mean what’s the problem with it?

“that includes the ability to separate his personal views from his television persona. (YMMV whether that’s a good or bad quality to have.)”