I think you're thinking of another movie? Gaslight is all fiction, in fact the famous version is a remake that ramps up the stakes and the tension signficantly from the obscure original (which was a solid mystery drama but not as emotionally engaging because you don't experience the suspense along with the…

War of the Worlds is a parallel to actual human history, where we didn't know about diseases and resistance that populations isolated from each other would not have time to evolve yet.

Apparently Gene Wilder actually bargained with Brooks, that Brooks would direct him in Young Frankenstein, on condition that he didn't act in it, because he always took things over…

Is there a name for an Idiot Plot where the very first action that must take place in order for everything else to happen, has to be something so unbelievably stupid and implausible (Humans Don't Act That Way!) that it sabotages everything else?

The thing about Wayward Pines, and anything like it, that destroys it for me, is the same as the Battlefield Earth problem. I wanted to be an archaeologist when I was young, and I spent a lot of time studying actual digs and conservation processes and looking at actual artifacts in museums vs restored/recreated…

It's like they thought, "What can we do that would be worse than 'It was all just a dream'—?" and then went and did it.

Mad Max: Fury Road.

That's actually a really good example of a movie about faith, lived out in the world.

Actor. You mean "actor", for a paycheque.

He already has tackled it, several times! Just encrypted.

Fifty years ago what was going on in the world was a horror show.

Not only that, but it's pretty much guaranteed to backfire. Kids have extreeeemly good crap detectors, and when they spot their elders pushing bullshit on them "Because it's Good For You!" they run like the wind in the opposite direction.

Does he mean "megachurches" by "charitable organizations"? Because that is a thing, and why you have to ALWAYS read the fine print.

"Heaven: Brought To You By The McDonald's Foundation"

Basically, the argument goes that if Scriptures were (as the religious believe), both directed TO human beings by the divine, and written down BY human beings no matter how divinely inspired (ie NOT inscribed on golden plates which is the extreme minority view in Christianity, most theologians arguing "inspiration"…

Several reviewers have called it out on its mocking/fearful demonization of both the elderly and the mentally ill, as well as conflating mental illness with violence.

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Not yet, I can tell from the reviews I'm going to to be pissed off, I can't stand "found" footage and I noped out of The Village twice, the acting and writing was just so horrible and lumpen, so I'm saving my pennies for something I know I'll enjoy. Hatewatching is enough of a cost without spending money to see it in…

You jest, but the people dedicated to proving that Ms. Ciccione is an Illuminati-lizard-queen would buy that. And they're out there!

If you can't stick the landing, it doesn't matter how good the first part of your routine was. The aliens thing was stupid, and if it has to be fanwanked into making sense with elaborate theories that are not supported by the film itself, the script is stupid too.