I strongly disagree with Cuties. And yes, I actually watched the film with the expectation that the people making a stink about it have only gone as far as viewing the trailer.

The way I hear it, that’s just what went down. Columbus vetted the parents of the child actors and they were all good people. I’m sure the Kit Culkin situation left him with battle scars.

I don’t hate this movie anywhere near as much as most do (it’s a good Jim Carrey movie, but a deplorable Dr. Seuss movie), but I can’t not give you a star. Great comment.

Sweet Jesus, that would’ve been boss. Burton and Danny Elfman even appeared in a mid-90s TNT special about the original cartoon (hosted by Phil Hartman!).

I can’t help but think that it made a huge impression on Damien Chazelle.

You can teach an old dog new tricks, but you can’t teach Madonna to act.

Again?

I think so, Brain, but I prefer Space Jelly.

Wonderful (and woefully underrated) movie. Bookended by some solid emotional beats and stuffed with great gags. One of Danny Elfman’s less-talked-about-but-still-damn-good scores, too.

The show may well be one of the best ever TV spinoffs of an animated movie. The mythology they build off of the film is awe-inspiring. Please give it a chance.

Jessie was a good addition, in her moments of joy and scenes like “You don’t forget kids like Emily, but they forget you.”

Didn’t see it at the time, but I caught up with it later on. Roland Emmerich fully bought into his own hype after ID4. I like Matthew Broderick, but he did not belong in this role and even he seemed to realize this. The CGI looks crappy and then there’s the pathetically hacky ‘humor’ (Animal’s wife is a shrew! No one…

This reminds me of a Patton Oswalt bit where he talked about Halloween decorations becoming “a CSI on every lawn”; “What kind of blowjob is this guy not getting at home where he’s like, ‘I gotta show where the neckbone snapped’?”.

“I had to keep you awake long enough so that when you finally went to sleep...you’d never wake up again!”

Love this movie so much more than it probably deserves. Yes, the ‘heroes’ are snarky, whiny, conceited bitches and yet, that’s precisely what I loved about it.

Last year, I did a back to back re-watch of the original and the remake. Nancy’s line late in the original about thinking this is all in her head would seemed to have struck me as a better jumping off point for a remake than ‘Freddy is maybe innocent?’. Samuel Bayer’s music video background gives this an interesting…

Wasn’t that Ma?

Mr. Smith? Ruthless saboteur though he may have been, I doubt that Dr. Smith would appreciate being called ‘Mr.’, thank you very much.

I first caught the movie a few years ago. Impressive production values, wonderful chemistry between the leads, delightful supporting turns from Victor Garber, Kathy Bates and Bill Paxton...then the boat sinks, seemingly in real time. The momentum dies right then and there, compounded by Billy Zane going from jerk…

Had its moments, but between the imagined assassins and the kid taking not-Alexa’s advice to use a gun against his bullies, my ‘unintentional comedy’ sense is tingling. I might stick around, but not for reasons the production team wanted.