This wouldn't be the first J.G. Ballard adaptation that totally missed the point, although Spielberg's version of Empire Of The Sun has a lot of positive things going for it in its own right.

I like Fury Road, but yeah, it is.

The Final Destination movies are complete turds, but that opening scene to #2 is so realistically staged it transcends "horror movie" into true primal human horror. I can't rewatch it.

I can proudly say that I missed all of these wretched pieces of dogshit this year.

I lean more towards your side of things, but I get Jesse's take too. I read it less of him being a "bad guy" or an antagonist and more of him being pretty much the typical teenage guy, for better or worse. We live in the age of Tinder, and a message that says "I want to fuck you" is going to be taken to mean exactly…

This was a far-above-average teen comedy. Craig's direction is pedestrian, but her insightful writing pretty much makes up for it. Steinfeld is fantastic and deserves her second Oscar nomination.

I think it was somewhat more quid pro quo in the heptapods' minds, although I suspect a lot of humans would choose Ian's path of deciding that not knowing the future is better.

I don't think he HAD learned the language before his daughter was born, and therefore didn't know that Louise had knowledge of her death.

This was very close to a masterpiece. Only some pacing issues in the middle and some waffling from Villeneuve regarding the twist's logic in the later scenes kept it from perfection.

Call me a snob then, I guess, because the humanistic determinism of Interstellar killed it dead in the water while not bothering me a bit in Arrival.

It's nearly impossible to get a rank and file bureaucrat fired due to the Hatch Act. It's mostly reserved for those with considerably more power.

You did a much better job of articulating why this episode angered me than I did.

I found the film to be technically accomplished but dead behind the eyes in most scenes. In regards to the much-talked-about level of violence, it certainly churned my stomach but overall I kept being constantly reminded of how it paled in comparison to Saving Private Ryan (its obvious touchstone in the battle…

I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but the United States is one of the most liberal—if not THE MOST liberal country in the world in terms of abortion laws. Far more liberal than even many progressive European countries. And it has been for over 40 years. Despite this long-standing liberal approach to abortion and a…

-Women who have had an abortion have an 81 percent higher risk of subsequent mental health problems compared to women who have not had an abortion.

I don't oppose early first term abortions in the case of rape where the victim did not have immediate access to a pill preventing implantation.

Doctors are capable of determining whether or not a pregnancy poses a physical risk to a woman or the fetus. Enjoy your drama queening.

Yes, there's still like an average of a one percent chance of pregnancy even when using the typical birth control devices (I believe it's a bit higher than 1% with condoms). So this goes back to my original point-you're aware that there's a small chance of pregnancy, just like there's only a small chance of hitting…

Amazing idea: Use preventative birth control or don't do the stuff that makes babies. It's no different than being OK with people getting drunk as long as they make sure they're not getting behind the wheel of a car.

I'm not talking about physical harm.