I don’t think contempt and mental effort are mutually exclusive. I also don’t think just going “some people are evil and that’s that” is very helpful when if comes to preventing people from being drawn to evil.

The in-depth interview/harsh review is a longstanding AV Club tradition! All the more important to maintain, now that Kinja has made a mockery of firsties.

Bwahahaha, writing about The Sound Of Music and My Fair Lady and The Bible has clearly driven Tom back to the home turf of brutal ass-kickings for a breather.

let’s see, the elder Garrel made Cicatrice intérieure when he was 22, with Desertshore-era Nico as his muse, now the younger (at the age of 36) has written a movie where *checks notes* the 19 year old daughter of Captain Jack wants to fuck him

Neither one has achieved anywhere near the U.S. name recognition of, say, Truffaut or Depardieu. But we’ve reviewed a number of Philippe’s films over the years, and Louis has acted in some fairly high-profile imports (Bertolucci’s The Dreamers, Bonello’s Saint Laurent, the title role in Godard Mon Amour, etc.). 

I got chased by a gator in SC when I was a kid, we lived on a lake. The standing wisdom I always heard was to make sharp turns if you have to run from a gator because they can only move in fairly straight lines on land due to the limitations of their limbs, but man......they can do pretty well to chase you in that…

I remember some nature documentary about hippos had a segment where some scientists crushed a watermelon in a hydraulic press to see how much force it took— it was some really high number or other. Then they gave a watermelon— an entire watermelon, this is— to a hippo, which bit through it like it was you or I eating…

The problem with the tortured family backstory in these types of films is it misses the lightness of touch that Jaws had. That final line “I used to hate the water. I can’t imagine why.” doesn’t neatly sum up Brody coming to terms with past trauma, but it does show him coming into his own having been heroic. So often…

This sounds solid.

44 years is close enough to consider it 50? I could under stand 48 or even 47, but saying Jaws was 50 years ago is a stretch.

I live in Baton Rouge, just a few blocks from the Mississippi River, and we’re about to have a massive storm that will almost certainly cause serious flooding... right as this fuckin’ thing comes out.

I mean it goes without saying this is not the Point Blank you should be watching but for those not in the know -

I’m usually in a similar camp, hoping for fair criticism rather than a skewering, but just because one reviewer skewers doesn’t mean they need to be skewered in return or that no one will find value or entertainment in it.

I see what you’re saying and there are different ways to look at it. I’m perfectly willing to sit back and wallow in the crapulence of, say, a Transformers movie (but good god they’re stupid). But I like to recognize things for what they are.

Pot meet kettle.

And what struck me about the animation was the color. Not just because it was animated, but how it set the mood for every scene. I can’t remember another Disney film that used color so well.

- The vibrant reds giving way to the clear sky for “Circle of Life”
- The cheery neons and pastels of “Just Can’t Wait To Be King”
-…

Y’know what I remember from Lion King more than anything? COLOR! Deep, rich color that matched the mood of whatever scene was happening. The vibrant reds of “Circle of Life”, the fun pastels of “Just Can’t Wait To Be King”, the harsh desaturated purples of the elephant graveyard, the dark, foreboding blues of Scar and…

Does it sound like that? Almost all the criticism is directed at what literally happens on screen, not the ideas behind it.

I would love it if someone went into the actual film reviews “around here” and did an actual deep-dive for how often “politics” are mentioned, and especially noted as a demerit for an especially bad film, and quantified some of this beyond vague suspicions and gut feelings. I’ve been through this with Mr. Ruthlessly…

Did anyone else find the joke about Kent's cum face funny given, Office Space?