You’re being way too kind to T2. It’s beyond over-rated; it’s an abominably scripted, poorly acted, blandly photographed blemish on the original film.

The fact that the Joker is a fictional character means a movie about him can’t be trying to say something?

There’s no real Big Brother, but 1984 is still trying to say something about the dangers of totalitarian regimes.

There’s no real Godzilla, either, but that doesn’t prevent the original from trying to say something…

I wonder if it was intended as some kind of play on Us and Get Out.

I am saddened both by his passing, and by this post’s failure to mention his role in Spider Baby.

I’ll add my anecdotal experience to your sample. I have seen the movie, and can say for certain that precisely one of my friends has. The story, however, we had to read in school, so most of the people I knew growing up read it; my wife has read the story but not seen the movie; and most people around whom my wife or…

NewsRadio beats them all.

An excellent summation!

They care when, and only when, it gives them an excuse to hurt someone they consider even less like themselves.

Yes, that would be the ideal scenario, I agree. Your original post didn’t really seem to leave room for that option. :-)

I love both of those movies, and each has the runtime it needs. However, neither would be a suitable runtime for Once Upon a Time in America.

Or maybe movies that benefit from substantially longer runtimes just aren’t the movies you, personally, should go see? There’s no reason everyone else should be deprived of Once Upon a Time in America just because you don’t want to sit through a 229 minute movie.

That’s only three minutes longer than Seven Samurai, and Seven Samurai is as close as we’ve ever gotten to a functionally perfect movie. Some stories need time to be told properly.

“Some have told me I’m too “controversial” to have an athleisure line”

Frisky Dingo is the most obscure on this list? Purely anecdotal here, obviously, but I remember that show being heavily advertised and a number of my friends talking about it both at the time and subsequently. On the other hand, I’ve never heard of Megas XLR before today.

Timeline forking is dramatically unsatisfying, because it generally means that the resolution we see for the drama doesn’t actually occur for the versions of the characters to whom we were first introduced.

“Sinister.” It means “sinister.”

ENDUT! HOCH HECH!

Is there any other crime where accusations are regularly met with, “You shouldn’t accuse anyone, because it might be a lie sometime?” I’m pretty sure the percentage of people falsely convicted of homicide dwarfs the percentage of people falsely accused of rape, but nobody ever says we need to stop with all these “murde…

Nah, Reg Park all the way.

While he is not strictly the villain, he certainly played a pretty bad guy in Sam Raimi’s The Gift, and did a pretty good job of it.