Street Fighter is a strangely misunderstood movie. It’s an action-comedy; it’s meant to be an action-comedy, and all of its much-quoted dialogue is meant to be funny and cheesy. In that regard, it is in fact an unqualified success.

But honestly, The Court Jester is one of the movies on this list least deserving of its half-remembered status.

Brosnan’s callback comes in The World is Not Enough, when Elektra asks Bond if he’s ever lost a loved one and he pointedly dodges the question.

I remember Fandango’s gag about dragging the broken-down car by train to be gut-bustingly hilarious. Haven’t seen it in an age though.

I think there’s something to this. There’s something quite old-fashioned about The CW’s typical formula of beautiful young people in soap operatic storylines in which they cry picturesquely but also always have a snarky quip handy, and the sci-fi/fantasy elements and action scenes are a bonus. It’s like a bigger…

He “hears stories” but has never actually worked with the man?

Malaysia is a very strongly conservative society, and that includes the audience I watched the movie with. Yet I’m pretty sure not one member of that audience would describe Zaffan’s dancing as “stripping.” So yeah, I’m calling you out on the insanely slut-shamey and pearl-clutching word you used, which is either…

Welp, looks like I’m just gonna be the guy defending Malaysian folklore and traditions in this thread.

Sorry, Butterworth is pretty far from me. Though I can’t think of a watch you can get there that you can’t get anywhere else in the country.

Malaysian here. I need to clarify a couple of things: first, the school isn’t a madrasa, it’s an ordinary public elementary school. If its rigidity to religious customs feels alien to Westerners, well, that’s just how it is in Malaysia.

I don’t and I won’t - but if you do, I don’t think I want my kids anywhere near a school where someone with your attitudes works.

The kind of person who goes “young people are getting too uppity” tend to be the exact same kind of person who goes “women and minorities are getting too uppity”, so I suspect that whatever point you’re trying to make, you just made the opposite.

If you’re genuinely unfamiliar with Bari Weiss’ views - and not just actively supporting them, hence why you’re backing her up - you should probably do more than just a 5-second google of her ethnicity and sexuality.

Tell that to Jerry Seinfeld.

But Gaiman and Martin specifically spoke about filmmakers who say, in these exact words, “I’m going to make it my own.” Which does not sound like a very respectful thing to say to an author whose work you’re adapting.

I think Philippa Boyens should’ve shut up with her “we’re scrupulously faithful to Tolkien, we just didn’t show certain parts” bullshit when they didn’t adapt “The Scouring of the Shire.”

Because the ones you had to watch what you say around - parents, teachers, bosses - were figures of authority whom you were obliged to respect.

This is a solid and well-structured treatment for an introductory X-Men film that I’m afraid I have to criticize for being an introduction to the very concept of mutants for the benefit of audiences who still don’t know what the X-Men is about. It can’t help but repeat the same beats that the 2000s trilogy already…

Actually no, Apple didn’t make the “1984" ad. It was directed by Ridley Scott and conceived by Steve Hayden, Brent Thomas and Lee Clow of the ad agency Chiat/Day. All those people are long retired. Apple’s only role in making that ad was for Steve Jobs to listen to their pitch, say yes, and sign off on the massive…

Well fuck, I clicked on that stupid fucking fan trailer and I regret giving it a view.