Be honest BoyManChildMan: Did you direct this film?

No, don’t lump the Orgeon trail generation in with Millenials! We’re the youngest of Gen X! Personally I was born in 1977 (anyone born through the end of the 70's is Gen X) and played the original Oregon trail on the apple IIe in elemetary school.

I’m a children’s librarian so I’m working with some folks who are tiny but sentient and born during the Trump administration. They’re too young for Gen Z even, I don’t know what to call em besides adorable.

Every generational tag is, first and foremost, a curse word when used by all the other generations. Such is our need to see otherness in people.

They actually trained 40 squirrels, per Wikipedia, which cites a book on Tim Burton, “Rather than rely on CGI, Burton wanted the 40 squirrels in the Nut Room to be real. The animals were trained every day for 10 weeks before filming commenced. They began their coaching while newborns, fed by bottles to form…

Sweeney Todd was excellent.

I have to assume people are not including Nightmare Before Christmas because he didn’t actually direct that film. It’s based on a story from him, and he clearly had a hand in it, but that film was directed by Henry Sellick (who also later did Coraline).

I saw it recently and it’s lost some of its novelty. It was still a decent watch, mostly due to AMH going so hard against character as the sadistic baddie, but I don’t know that I need to see it again. EW and Beetlejuice I can still watch any time (especially the latter).

I thought everybody here loved Nightmare Before Christmas (which I’ve never seen)? My rankings are 1) Ed Wood 2) everything else, including Mars Attacks. Almost all of his films have the same flaw, tonal inconsistency. You play it straight or you can camp it up, you can't do both.

Independence Day is a straight up disaster movie that (effects aside) could easily have set next to “Earthquake” or “Towering Inferno” in the genre’s heyday and fit right in. Little more action oriented towards the end than was standard, but that’s what a massive effects budget gets you.

You didn’t like Big Fish? I think that just might be his best film.

A lot of people who are not me liked Big Fish

I think Zack’s criticisms are valid—I’m not going to sit here and say that killing Picard, mourning his death, and then immediately bringing him back with no lingering consequences made a whole lot of sense—but I think approaching reviews in the way that Zack has for the past few years (with this show and Discovery)…

I think the problem any Star Trek show going forward has is that it doesn’t just have to be good, it has to live up and outdo the expectations of any Star Trek fan. An episode of Picard, or Discovery isn’t compared to the actual quality of your average episode of TNG or TOS, it’s competing with the concept of ‘STAR…

You know, I honestly don’t think we watched the same show. I’ve really enjoyed this season, as have my wife and son. I’m an old-school fan, they are not: so it appealed across the board. I’ve always enjoyed Zack Handlen’s writing in the past, but I feel he went into this show determined to hate it.

Also, “Cancel red alert!... it’s a burnt tomato.”

“Wow, that V’Ger story sounds cool.

I like how the show somehow figured a way for Riker to yell “SHEILDS UP!”

riker wasn’t always my favorite tng character, but goddamn did jonathan frakes bring it this episode. those scenes he had with picard were by far the best the show has done so far. he even made patrick stewart, who all series has seemed to be mostly phoning it in, step up his game.

I assume you prefer your cookies baked, not replicated.