The general rule, in polite society, for when you see a celebrity you admire in public, is, if the opportunity presents itself, to say something like, “I love your work” (while maintaining a reasonable distance), and then move on.

I never have any milk left at the end. Each spoonful contains cereal and milk, to the last, after which no more of either remains.

In the past, she was this grown-up journalist, but she’s a lot younger now

Actually, come to think of it, giving the NAACP full rights to Song of the South to use for educational purposes on the history of racism in mainstream American entertainment doesn’t seem like a bad idea. It would give them a certain amount of control in the conversation about it.

So, if she’s a Mary Sue, which of the film’s authors is she a stand-in for?

To me, the Ripley/daughter material just kinda turns subtext into text, and those drone guns stuff feel like... a long time watching guns fire, without any advancement of story or character.

It’s too late to edit my comment, so I’m just going to reply again.

And that’s a problem in he execution of the metaphor, not of the nature of the genre. Much of the worst in any genre is didactic material. Plenty of realistic/naturalistic works spend more time spelling their themes out to the audience in insulting detail than conveying those themes effectively through storytelling…

No, good sci-fi lives and dies on its metaphors.

From what I remember of interviews at the time, it seemed like Lee’s take was, “There’s no thematic depth to this character, so I’m going to introduce a bunch of stuff to give him depth.” So, basically, he didn’t understand the layers that were already there, and inadvertently just ended up caking more stuff on top,…

While I can believe that Bruce Wayne would admit something was beyond his current comprehension, I don’t think he’d deem anything beyond his possible comprehension.

It’s telling that, having seen the movie twice, I had no idea that was in there, and assumed it was something made up by the internet. The damned thing just cannot hold my attention at all.

Who said anything about not-critically-acclaimed? To my reading, this is a division by genre; it’s way of making sure that, in the future, movies like The Shape of Water and Get Out can’t be contenders for “best picture,” but rather are limited to the patronizing “best popular movie” category (where “popular” might as…

Because they’re looking for a way to acknowledge quality work that’s not in “prestige” genres?

Not at all how I read it. As far as I can tell, it’s a response to recent pressure to acknowledge quality work that is usually ignored because it’s not within “prestige” genres.

In my day, we just called those “fuck buddies.”

“That’s not even Michael Nesmith’s real hat!”

Not the most insightful or damning segment, but quite possibly the flat-out funniest one yet.

Yeah, this trailer has an element of camp to it that I think shows some potential, and I feel like the negativity towards the flick is so hyperbolic that I can’t help but want want to go against the crowd here.

How familiar are you with the Mario Bava and Hammer movies that inspired Burton’s take on Sleep Hollow?