Moon is perfect.

I had my prejudices knowing that the son of David Bowie made this hyped movie “Moon” so I went in a bit cynical but after I saw it I had difficulties resolving that fact and how amazing it was. I quickly accepted that he was a great director in his own right. The soundtrack by Clint Mansell and acting by Sam Rockwell…

This has literally nothing to do with the use of CGI. It’s about the quality of these movies.

This is why, despite all of its flaws, I kind of enjoyed Cloverfield. The way the monster was only ever seen from the POV of a character made this movie stood out for me.

Sounds like the worst sort of like pretentious shit.

“They always have an infinite supply from amazingly tiny storage or generation devices.”

people kill more people a year than anything else

This shit looks positively Thunderbirds.

The funny thing about “Hot Sexy Jesus” is that whenever someone goes for historical accuracy, they never give a historical accurate “Hot Sexy Jesus.” They instead give us some schlub that looks like he should be selling dirty water hot dogs on some street corner in Queens. This guy;

this future is immeasurably better than the “white nuclear family eats turkey dinner pills around the telesensor after a long day at the button factory” future the boomers were promised

It’s a Baby Boomer saying “Hey, I don’t like this future I’m in. I was promised a different future. I want THAT future back! Gimme gimme gimme.”

The 50s were optimistic because a giant war had just decimated every economic rival on the planet, with little damage to America.

Skip Interstellar, look at 2001 instead.

Was the portal designed by John Noble?

It's a classic for a ton of reasons.

Well yes, but it also has great art design and a perfect plot that gets more complex as you examine it. That's why I teach it every year.

Mm, I'd say more like 15 minutes of setup, 110 minutes car chase.

So from what I gather, this movie is something like a half-hour of setup/plot, followed by 90 minutes of chase through the apocalyptic desert while cars flip and explode non-stop.

Yup, and that parody is called Dances with Smurfs.