Empire/Jedi essentially split a story into two movies. And by this point we’d had the Matrix sequels do the same, and Lord of the Rings come out as a pre-conceived trilogy. 

I remember a pre-release interview in which Raimi addressed the decision not to split the story in two, saying he believed that fans wouldn’t want…

I assume he was taking the “a thumb is not a finger” stance.

I had the exact same experience just now. Bummed me right out.

It was also drawing from The Power of Positive Thinking.

So weird that this was posted today! I’m about to head over to a friend’s place to start work on our Devo-inspired music/video project!

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.