Do you think that film criticism can ultimately be reduced to a choice between those two approaches, or something?

the attempt to reverse-engineer a cogent ideological statement out of every episode

That is exactly what I’m thinking. We’re fucked.

Trump has always acted like a child when challenged but he’s gone full on toddler. He knows repercussions are coming and there is nothing he can do about it.

The race was so close! I had to give up watching last night when Walker briefly passed Evers in the count.

I had the biggest eye roll when my extremely educated and successful executive (in finance too!) boss claimed that he just likes having Trump and the republicans in power because they are “fiscally conservative”. Words have lost all meaning now.

Goldfinger had a great soundtrack, and so did Diamonds are Forever. Both had great Shirley Bassey tracks.

Xanadu is an awesome soundtrack. Love the big band song that morphs into a Tubes song and morphs back.

I also loved the main theme from First Contact! But the first album I ever owned was the Star Wars soundtrack on vinyl, back in 1977. I played it nonstop for months.

If I told my wife, ‘I expect you to support all my past and future decisions as correct, without question or even a shred of doubt,’ oh well, one would be able to hear her laughing in space.

I read somewhere that that was the plan... movie 3 was going to continue the Joker story, and they had to think fast to come up with an entirely different idea when Ledger died.

I would respond: “Fuck that, nobody wants to see The Nutcracker. We’re going to release Solo in Winter 2018 because releasing Star Wars movies during the Holidays has become our thing in the last couple of years and if we do something stupid like releasing it five months after The Last Jedi, sandwiched between Infinit…

Wait, so... everybody except the reviewer has (or must have) the same opinion as yours? That’s kind of narcissistic, isn’t it?

They couldn’t because the scooters require a smartphone to rent, and I think each scooter required a separate smartphone; they couldn’t rent 2 scooters with one phone. The kids didn’t have a spare phone (not surprising since they’re 5th graders), and Kenny didn’t own one, so Kenny was hosed.

Yes! Those demon/ghost dog things really freaked me out—they show up in my dreams to this day.

Dear Nobody,

To widen the question out a bit — for those of you who are in long-term relationships, how strongly is it grounded in physical attraction?

Nice list. I would’ve included Clive Barker’s Undying and American McGee’s Alice somewhere.

HA! Now I’m imagining Ed Chigliak as a movie lover who films nearly everything he sees—including his serial murders. Each show opens with a moose walking through town but at the end of the credits, a group of feral humans wearing bear skins leap upon it and eat it alive.

I get that... but it doesn’t change my conclusion.