Jurassic Park is way too low on this list. The whole soundtrack is a masterwork, and the main theme might be my favorite single piece he’s ever done. I’d put it second only to Star Wars (either the original film or the franchise) for him, and a close second at that.

I think the real (or at least “real”) vs. fiction distinction is relevant, though. Nobody is really harmed if John Wick pencil-murders a few thinly-drawn gangsters (nor is there any real evidence that it inspires real-life violence), whereas there are many verifiable instances of people committing real murders because …

I’m genuinely surprised I haven’t heard even a whisper about a sequel to Super Mario Odyssey. [Or a prequel, if they want to make Super Mario Iliad.] It was a long time coming, but since there were only three years between Galaxy and Galaxy 2, you’d have thought we’d be hearing something almost six years on from Odysse…

The latter point is true - Ghibli wouldn’t want to - but there have been some compelling iterations of the Zelda character (including this one).

I used to think that (and about most other films with similar characters, including woody allen and Albert Brooks films), and then I (a short, quippy, neurotic, autistic, thirty-something Jew from the NYC area) ended up with a tall, gorgeous, extremely gentile woman. I have subsequently stopped thinking of those…

More Paul Dano, I think.

So... Donkey Kong Country Returns but for Sonic. Got it.

“Live action”

As noted on an earlier article, when the whole thing is just CGI replacing hand-drawn, I prefer to call it “re-animated.”

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Quick point of clarification: pro-BDS =/= anti-Israel. Opposing the government’s actions and policies are not the same thing as opposing a country wholesale. It’s the same as the distinction between being anti-Apartheid and anti-South Africa.

Depends on what you play it for. I’m enough of a geek for certain ancient stuff that running around a recreated ancient Greece and bantering with Socrates (excuse me, Sokrates) sold me instantly on Odyssey, which was my first game in the series (and which I enjoyed), but I tired quickly on Valhalla, which began to…

I can only speak for my own experience (dated for many years, now engaged in my mid-30s), but I’ve always asked (the first time), and always found it appreciated that I did. Later on in a relationship it can be unspoken, but at the beginning there was always too much room for misinterpretation. I’m sure some women…

I think he had the curse of getting Too Big Too Fast, and now the backlash to something being extremely popular is starting to become the narrative itself. (See also: Garden State, M. Night Shyamalan, etc.) He hasn’t done anything wrong, nor is his work bad - it’s just that the mainstream adopted the shtick so fast…

“Or whatever The Lion King was”

I just refer to it as “reanimated.” I figure that sums it up.

If they finally release a modern port of Skies of Arcadia, it’ll be worth it.

None would survive.

Pretty much the exact opposite. Unfunny would be an improvement. More like anti-funny.

Schindler’s List and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Both are among the best films I’ve ever seen, and I won’t watch either again (aside from probably showing the former to a child if I have one). As a Jew, a lot of holocaust films are just brutal for me to watch, and Diving Bell is a beautiful film that is also…

I might be the one person who watched the kids cartoon for years growing up before ever watching the film, and thus got pretty weirded out when it turned out Beetlejuice was the bad guy (and a major creep). I suspect the show is almost entirely forgotten now (and probably sucked, though I couldn’t tell at age 6 or…

Speaking as an autistic person... just no.