Right? It’s the ultimate shaking-fist-at-cloud issue. So movie stars from an overstuffed, overvalued industry we all regularly fund are sometimes the sons and daughters of other movie stars. So fucking what? Unless you’re directly impacted by it, like if you’re a struggling actor or something, why would this chart on…

Same, she’s a great singer, but I always thought I’d like her better if she were born 40 or 50 years earlier and her music reflected the conventions of that era.  Skyfall works because it has a distinctly old school feel.

Fun list, if I had a quibble it would be the absence of Skyfall, a kick ass song that was a) the first Bond song to win an Oscar, b) the one that suddenly made it a thing for all Bond songs to win Oscars regardless of merit.  But Skyfall had merit up the wazoo.  

Forgot entitled rich asshole rage.  Kind of a major oversight.  

No love for Diggstown?  I have almost no memory of it except that I liked it when it came out.  But I still protest its snubbing.  

Having just watched Age of Innocence again, I can say it’s great, just really restrained and very much a stuffy period piece. It’s easy to see how it would get lumped in with the Merchant Ivory stuff that was having a hey day when it came out. It’s about this tiny, dying social world and what it takes from the people…

Jesus fucking Christ, Hook is not “beloved.” It’s Spielberg at a low point and always was.  Can we stop critically reassessing our way out of reality?

I think I’m ready for a backlash against the blame-everything-on-the-boomers zeitgeist. Yes, they’ve been a problematic generation and it’s fine to demythologize and critique. But they’re also just people. They faced a particular set of historical circumstances and reacted how it seemed to make sense at the time.…

Just to put a word in, I think it’s good to step back from the thing of saying a person “blames” their abusive behavior on drug addiction. Not saying anyone here is doing that, but it does come up in comments a lot. That can happen for sure, but it’s also true a lot of abusers are actually not dangerous people when…

Well, you’re clearly just a primitive who doesn’t understand metals and alloys and things.  

Yeah, I was surprised to see it on the worst half of the list. It struck (heh, pun, heh) me as one of the better sequels in a series that kept its standards surprisingly high.  Also, no sentient robot that may or may not be a sex worker.  

I’m sure she’s quite talented but I was, in fact, speaking entirely with my heterosexuality.  

I think he’d still welcome the attention.  

At this point you sort of always have me at Monica Barbaro.

Please stop covering Elon Musk.  

I actually am wary of this sort of thing. Erasure-of-history argument. Fleming was what he was. We don’t gain anything from not knowing that. With Dahl I feel like there’s more of an argument because they’re children’s books. Like, maybe as a parent I don’t need to be reading my kids books that require a lot of…

Kind of extrapolating on Generic Poster’s actual views aren’t we?  

I purchased the James Bonding pigeon double-take t shirt myself.  I’m sick that way. 

Rob Marshall previously expressed surprise over the backlash she received because he “felt like we’ve moved so far past that kind of thing.”