IDK. I thought the Dune score was brilliant. I stayed to the end of the credits just to hear the entire score. That said, I realize there is some subjectivity in how much one likes a score.

Props

I knew Dune saying would win best score. I stayed to the end of the credits just for the score. No surprise that it won multiple technical Oscars as well. It was extremely well made.

So I guess I can say that I was alive when the whole concept of what constitutes a big opening weekend changed.

I really and truly don’t understand what you have against rotoscoping. 

This reviewer keeps referring to “Asia” as though it represents a single culture. Please trust your audience a little more. This is the AVClub. We know that the continent of Asia comprises many diverse cultures. There are diverse cultures even within individual countries in Asia.

The reviewer loved it.

I am, but so is this post. Did they just re-post it?

I was thinking the round sparkly eyes whenever they saw something they loved.

World historians date the modern eras (early and late) from the 1400s to the 1900s. We are currently living in the post-modern era. U.S. historians would call anything post WWII the modern era. More colloquially, I would consider of anything in my lifetime to be modern, and I’m 55. Anyway, just a giggle, not a guffaw.

Holy crap. Really? 

I also want to say a few words about the animation style and quality. Setting the human characters aside for a moment, some of the scenes featured the most photo realistic animation I have ever seen. A post credits sequence looked so real I at first thought it was a filmed sequence. The animations of food looked…

Giggling that you do not consider 2002 to be “modern times”. :)

Counterpoint, I thought it was amazing.

The mom is there. She’s there. I saw her. I am her.

I watched it last night with my home-from-college daughter, and as far as I can tell it was about me/us, although neither of us is Chinese or a were-panda. I am, however, a mom of an overachieving kid, and I was shaking with sobs at the end of this movie. Like, my face was in my hands and my shoulders were heaving. My…

Comedy is acting, but yes, he’s got good comic timing. One can make a pretty good career out of that. It is possible to be too good looking to be taken seriously. Ask Rob Lowe.

Listening to Ryan Reynolds on NPR right now, so worth it for that, I suppose. This seems like the sort of thing that one would enjoy watching at home on Netflix with one’s daughter who is home on spring break, and oh look, that how it’s being released. So OK, I’ll watch it tonight and give you a proper review tomorrow.

I can see how as a Houstonian you might thinks it isn’t, but maybe it is? This site has both a national and international audience, and perhaps not everyone knows where Houston is. Also, there may have editorial guidelines that dictate that state be included whenever a city is mentioned. I’m not sure about this latter…

My kid was high school age when she saw Bao, and she sent it to me because she knew I would love it (and it would make me cry). I can see how a little kid would be disturbed, though.