Deep Blue Sea is one of the rare movies I turned off rather than finish watching. Not because it was bad, but because it was boring. I do not see the “trashy fun” in it at all.

I mean, in the original King Kong, there are at least three different scales at which Kong exists, depending on the needs of the scene.

It was never set up as a plot point; it was set up as a character point, and from TFA it was clear that the resolution of Rey’s arc would require her getting over the need to have her identity defined by her parents.

How was it underrated? I honestly don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone offer anything but effusive praise for the movie or the performance.

The Monster demands a mate!

Once, in high school, a friend and I got away with reciting pretty much the entirety of that song in a history class, and the teacher never once seemed to notice that we were rhyming.

And most people don’t want to drink that much beer in 15 minutes.

It’s pretty easy for “friendly” to veer into “apparently sarcastic and mean spirited,” thought, which may well be how the server interpreted it.

Every definition of the word I’ve ever encountered, every essay or article I’ve ever read discussing the camp aesthetic. Self-conscious exaggeration/theatricality is a fundamental aspect of camp.

To my perception, TLJ takes the main story threads of TFA and follows them up in the most dramatically satisfying ways possible. Rey’s arc as established in TFA would only work if she got over her fixation on her parents, while Kylo Ren’s would only work if he overcame his subservience to Snoke.

Heck, not only is Star Wars not camp, but the claim that it was unintentionally campy is a contradiction in terms, since camp is inherently intentional.

Jeepers Creepers is certainly a good horror movie. But in the genre that gave us movies like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Bride of Frankenstein, Cat People, Night of the Living Dead, Alien, and The Fly, I would never put it anywhere near the category of greatness.

Wait, you post on AV Club and you haven’t seen Videodrome or Once Upon a Time in America? That’s surprising.

Great article; I’m not a Sailor Moon fan, but I was totally drawn into the hunt.

Yeah, I mean, the majority of tips are left on a table when the server isn’t even present. And when you slide an extra buck onto the bar, isn’t it the norm to do it when the bartender has stepped away from you? In my experience, tipping for food service is almost never something that the people involved openly…

The whole appeal of a tip jar, to me, is that it eliminates the awkward moment where the person you’re tipping has to thank you for the tip.

When I saw Split, I knew going in that it had some connection to an earlier Shyamalan movie, but didn’t know which one. I figured the safest bets were The Sixth Sense or Unbreakable, and the evidence cited here was definitely stuff I noticed that made me think we were maybe in the Sense-verse.

“Covered in high school” is not quite the same as “memorized in junior high” though.

Yeah, that is not consistent with my experience.

According to the court, it is illegal for him to have them blocked. The fact that they didn’t issue a specific court order to him doesn’t change that, any more than the court not issuing a specific “don’t commit armed robbery” order to an individual doesn’t change the fact that, by law, they’re not supposed to commit…