I've found that if you just plunk small children down in front of silent movies or foreign films and let them be entertained, they never get infected with the belief that movies with subtitles are just too hard, or too elitist, or whatever. (It's hard to feel that way about Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin!)

The mirror to that is, "You don't REALLY dislike X, you're only pretending to for steppe cred" by the same people who simply cannot imagine anyone having different tastes or motivations than themselves.

When will the Weinsteins finally run out of money so they will stop inflicting rubbish on us? Their ratio of hit-to-miss is what, 1 to 9? And the misses are such bitter disappointments when they're not mere dumpster fires.

Minions. Just — Minions.

Two words: Minions Sequel.

That actually worked for me at least as a red herring — you keep expecting enemies to come from the forest, the strange dark mysterious Elsewhere that the three are journeying through…but actually, they're the danger, all three of them in different ways, to themselves as much as others. The forest is simultaneously…

I literally could not get through that piece of dreck. And I have watched, in the interests of science and honesty, the DTV Mulan sequel and Home on the Range AND the Rankin Bass Return of the King, and lived to tell about it ia ia ftaghn! — I didn't say I remained sane —so that says something when it comes to…

You know not everyone in Australia is white, right?

Elsewhere I saw the calculation run: this comes to over a million dollars a minute of budget-per-screentime.

And they're STILL getting to do the Dracula Untold sequel that nobody asked for! (Dracula Untold: Told Again or Dracula Untold: We're Telling You Now?)

Right, but you can't trick people into seeing your schlock thinking it's based on a familiar and beloved out-of-copyright intellectual property, if you make it an honest scifi original property.

Poor fellow! (Though it could have been worse, he could have been married to a woman named Beverly too, like Mr. & Mrs. Evelyn & Evelyn Waugh.) Thanks for the correction.

You need to get out of your wingnut bubble — and not retreat back in every time you encounter a differing world view.

But it would come out like his Beowulf movie…

Well, and it clearly doesn't work — name me one big-budget movie with an all-white or whitewashed cast that has even broken even in the last 5 years. We've got Lone Ranger, Prince of Persia, Pan, Exodus, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch of others. You would think they would have gotten a clue by now, right?

"Strategically deployed Christopher Lee" has elevated a LOT of resources.

Look at his comment history…

So ONE black actor playing a Norse god weighs just as much as ALL BUT ONE white actors playing African gods.

"Drinking Game" seems to be the only way to manage a lot of the recent attempts at starting a franchise these days!

The Harryhausen movies remixed, but they did pay respect to the (multiple, sometimes conflicting) sources while chasing the spectacular, in pursuit of telling an entertaining story that also had commentary on the nature of belief and morality — Beverly Cross knew her classics, and it shows. (Even the old Hercules…