I respect your opinion, but I'm always wary of painting a film's audience with a broad brush. And I don't think movies are a good metric to determine people's political leanings. It's tenuous at best. To call "300" our generation's "Birth of a Nation" is just absurd in so many ways.

No, it's not.

Make sure you add to the folder that article last week about how "300" predicated the rise of the alt-right.

Jesus, Tom. This is a great article series, but you really jumped the shark on this one.

I actually enjoyed Casino Royale more than Skyfall, although Javier Bardem is probably my favorite part of that movie.

I'm probably gonna be skewered alive for this, but I hate Casino Royale for taking the Bond franchise into the realm of grim and gritty blockbusters. Yes, Die Another Day made the series way too ludicrous, but Casino Royale swung the pendulum too far in the other direction. Craig's Bond films are (sometimes) great…

A History of Violence actually kinda sucks.

Solid, insightful comment, Mr. Compactica.

Didn't need that coda.

One of the more interesting theories is that they are both the Thing but don't know it ("did you kill it?" referring to MacReady). To me, though, this idea ruins some of the tension in the rest of the movie. Personally, I think Chiles is the Thing but MacReady is human.

Strong disagree on the movie's ending. I've never read the novel, but I've always regarded Forman's finale as the perfect mixture of hope and tragedy. It's in my top 5 movie endings, along with The Thing and Midnight Run.

Drexl Spivey.