I would say the movie is pushed a lot further into the Christmas movie territory by the soundtrack, especially Michael Kamen’s score. It utilizes a lot of classical, sure, but also has a ton of sleigh bells/Christmas variations that give the movie a Christmas sound. I think subconsciously that gives people that…

At least the dialogue explicitly invokes the fact that it’s Christmas.

“Die Hard is a Christmas movie” is one of those takes that are made by people who want to come off as being “hip” to movies. It’s annoying.

Of course it’s not a Christmas movie, it’s a movie about action escapism and violent fantasy. Just because a movie is set during Christmas, that doesn’t make it a “Christmas…

Iron Man 3 is a Christmas movie.

Definitely agree, Poe’s mom crack was early sign that I was going to have problems with that movie. Feel like most of the humorous bits in TLJ landed with a “plop”.

I literally can’t believe someone used Poe’s mother joke as an example of good SW dialogue.

You are right, we should fight the social injustice of crunch like you are with...let me check my notes... “complaining about it on the internet”

No I am a realistic person who understand how the fucking world works. Crunch sucks, but it sucks for everyone. Why is game development somehow the place where we are standing up for the fucking workers?

Unearned snark is William Hughes’ bread and butter, and basically the extent of his toolbox. Wonder if he really believes that all AVC readers think like he does or if he’s just trying to scare off the ones who don’t. Or if he does anything with intention at all.

I’ve really never understood the problem with actors playing roles of characters when they don’t have every trait of the character, and this article spends so much time wallowing in unearned snark that it doesn't even make an attempt to make a case for why it's bad, just assuming everyone will agree. C'est la vie, I…

How many years is Dick Clark’s estate contracted to have his name on that, anyways?

Be careful with those Sumerian translations.

This contrived plot point is infinitely less weird than a billionare dressing up like Dracula to “fight crime”

Please please please do not confuse le Carré with Tom Clancy. The difference is between a portrait artist and a cartoonist.

One of my favorite authors. He was a master of laying bare the reality that high stakes don’t imply a lack of of minutia and mundacity. Here was a guy who rightly called out self interest in all its forms and believed in the purpose of making the world a better place for everyone despite intricate familiarity with the…

Gary Oldman deserves to be an Oscar winner but he absolutely deserved that title for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy rather than Darkest Hour. While it seems appropriate - given some of his more famous roles - that he won for one where he got all shouty and bombastic, his quiet, layered and nuanced turn as Smiley was…

I was too but I'm ova it now.

This is basically what Gamergate did at its peak. They would donate money to various charities and use that as a smokescreen to hide the fact that they were a roving hate mob.

Honestly, working those films could be hell - it was packed, the film’s were long so the turnarounds between shows were tight to pack showings in, it was on multiple screens so it always seemed to be busy and the screens afterwards were carnage - but every now and then you’d catch the sight of a six year old dressed…

Fun-fact, around the time of the third or fourth film, my wife attended a party, which she knew would include Rickman. The kids begged her for autographs, so she took along a couple of photos of him as Snape, and shyly presented them to him.