There’s a lot of really funny stuff in Mien in Tights. It’s not a very good movie, but I don’t know if I’d actually call it a tepid comedy.

Maybe it was through brute repetition of seeing it a million times on comedy central and HBO in the late aughts, but I love this movie. It’s perfectly pleasant.

The boats from the movie and from Apocolypse Now passing each other and what happens there is money.

Jason Bateman as the former Dodgeball star, now the color commenter was golden. 

Dodge Ball gave us ESPN 8, the Ocho. So I’ll always have good things to say about the movie.

Also from Men in Tights, when Robin is being told everyone he loves is dead:

Patton Oswalt had a bit in one of his more recent comedy specials (or maybe it was an interview) about how it used to be the case that if you wanted a great performace or inspired writing you’d often have to put up with assholes and “tortured geniuses,” but with increasing connectivity it’s much easier to find…

He’s really good in both (though I remember Gods much better as a movie so that one always sticks out to me). For that matter, I remember him being good in Crash, which is not exactly high art, but a lot of the actors are good in it and probably a big part of why people liked that movie back in 2005.

Gods & Monsters. Go see Gods & Monsters if you haven’t before now.

The movie was originally supposed to contain two more cases: one set on board a ship, and one in an upside-down room, along with flashbacks to when Holmes was a teenager. They were filmed, and I think at least one was made available on laser disc, but other than that they’re not available.

You are statistically more likely to die by gunshot than anyone who does not own a gun. CONGRATULATIONS!

There’s nothing inherently wrong with a Death Wish remake, the issue is when you follow Michael Winner’s fascist bullshit views from the original movie that were not in the book. Ideally it would be a character study, a bleak tale of a man who can no longer function without killing people he blames for his misery, the…

ditto. because they are correctly locked in a locker in my basement where they can’t accidentally harm someone, which is far greater worry than a home invasion.

Death Wish has always been explicitly political in every form (though it’s varied on where it falls). Asking for a review on Death Wish that doesn’t get into the politics of gun violence is missing the entire point of Death Wish, that’s the entire foundation of the story and its themes. It’s not Die Hard.

You seem so badass dude.  Tell me more about your how scared you are that you need to own a bunch of guns.

Tone matters in these things.

DW3 is Airplane! to the original’s Zero Hour. Monday Morning Quarterback- I would have ended this with Willis getting his brains blown out by a black man he stalked who turned out to be a legal gun owner/non criminal. Fantasy land, but it would mess with everyone watching while nursing a boner.

They should postpone this movie until it’s been, say, six months since the last U.S. gun massacre, thus assuring that it would never, ever be released.

“where does film criticism sit in 2018?”

Netflix only makes criticism redundant if you think the point of film criticism is as a means of assessing which films will get your money. Yes, to Netflix it doesn’t matter if you watch it, or not, and then if you liked it, or not. You already paid for your subscription.
But if you think of criticism as a way to help…