Sure. Next you’ll be saying that “Every Breath You Take” by the Police and “You’re Beautiful” by James Blunt aren’t love songs. Pretty soon we’ll have people claiming that “Born in the U.S.A.” by Bruce Springsteen isn’t a red-white-and-blue-blooded patriotic anthem.

Which is one of the reasons I’m so fond of The LEGO Movie: it’s literally the story of a kid taking his dad’s LEGO bricks and using his imagination to play with them in ways other than following the rote instructions of the sets.

There’s absolutely no reason for this to be a slideshow. Seriously. Making it a slideshow even shifts the numbering for each entry, so, e.g., the #1 movie is listed in the 2 spot. And the complete lack of commentary gives this list the appearance of something slapped together in a rush to meet a quota; giving the…

It was a water wheel, IIRC, and that was during the wild climax of the second movie (which, IMHO, was about the only time the second one measured up to the first). Keith Richards played a small but key role in the third film, which is probably the other one you saw; he also had basically a cameo in the fourth film.

It’s a Small World After All. That one seems ripe for cinematic treatment.

It’s OK not to reply if you don’t comprehend what’s being said. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt, and all that.

The worldbuilding evidenced so far for Elemental certainly calls to mind the several other “non-human sapients in a familiarly-human society” settings Pixar has used in the past (as well as Disney’s Zootopia), and the plot seems to be a standard Hollywood rom-com “Romeo and Juliet but lighter and with a happy ending”.…

Must be nice imagining everything to be a single-variable equation.

The exact starting point of Pixar’s quality decline is debatable

Considering Ezra Miller’s consistently troubling behavior last year (and, I think, stretching back into late 2021?), I’m perfectly willing to believe they need six months to a year out of the limelight in order to work on their issues.

If they can bring back Ian McDiarmid, sure.

...Sure, why not? If Hoojibs are canon, anything goes.

I can’t speak for Danny boy in the photo up top, but I’ll wear a mask if I feel like I might be sick, or if I’m going to a location (say, a hospital) where there’s likely going to be a lot more people than usual who are vulnerable to infection.

Minor quibble: It’s The Adventures of Tintin; the lead character’s name is one word. That aside, this is an enjoyable overview of oners; while I might wish for a few additional (or different) examples to be chosen, it’s still a fine starting point for discussion and exploration.

I love seeing a reasonable, and intelligently-presented, contrarian take. Even when I end up unconvinced, I feel like my horizons have been expanded at least a little.

Well, that’s one way to draw in the gerontophile crowd.

Nicole Holfcener’s adaptation of me reading the comments, You Hurt My Feelings

OUaTiH was fairly zeitgeisty, and I’m speaking as someone who’s definitely outside the Tarantino fandom. Not a seismic event like Avengers: Endgame, but it definitely had more of a splash than all but a few streaming-focused films, and probably more of a splash than anything that skipped theaters entirely.

I’ll admit the one I’m most disappointed to see go is It’s a Dog’s Life with Bill Farmer, but that’s because we just plain need more Bill Farmer, and I’ll take him any way I can get him.

Joke’s on you, it was created by Nick Morgenstern.