You have to be white to understand. I mean really REALLY white.

The innocent teenage aspects of Scream have aged much better than its perceived cleverness or referential humour (because in the internet age, that novelty isn't novel). It's just a really terrific survivalist slasher film, and I agree with you that it's poignant. But Sleepaway Camp is absolutely untouchable in the…

Awkward. is patronizing nonsense, but then, so is every current series about teenagers.

When it came out in the wake of the po-mo slasher revival, it seemed fresh, but it really doesn't hold-up. It's draggy and watered down, and full of way too many fake-outs. It ends well, at least.

I agree with you. However, the movie has this weird LA/mid-90s Melrose Place aesthetic. Craven has always been a better ideas guy than a stylist. But, yeah, this is one of the most literate mainstream slashers.

I have a question: How come on MTV's Awkward. they can get away with saying things like "nutsack" uncensored, but on Scream, there's nary an "ass" or "damn" or "dick." Is this a creative decision, or is it held to some different standards?

They killed off the only actress I was attracted to a couple eps back, and now this show is whiter than Weezer.

Not to mention that for all its perceived transgressions, Kids is really conservative and fear-mongering. Korine always talks about how he doesn't judge his characters in his interviews, he only observes them, which is strange, because if you watch his movies, it's hard to think of any filmmaker who judges his…

I think Gummo is an overall much better film than Kids, and the closest Korine has come to making a good movie, although it's really inconsistent. Some of it is quite awful, and other moments are sort of beautiful.

I saw the film theatrically at age 16, and remember feeling disillusioned with some of my classmates' enthusiasm. Rarely, had I experienced my peers so happy to buy into their own exploitation than they were with this out-of-touch mess, though teenagers would develop that relationship to pop as the de facto standard…

I agree, but I think Spielberg's overall body of work in the '00s has been more adventurous and interesting than Scorsese's.

Ah, but has it occurred to you that thinking Spielberg is overrated is an overrated opinion?

Spielberg has more depth than Scorsese, who hasn't made a truly great or personal movie since Bringing Out the Dead.

I actually don't agree with too much of this (especially the notion that Linklater and Lumet are better directors than Lynch, and that Stone and (especially) Soderbergh are better than Spielberg), but am totally with you on calling out the choice of John Carpenter. I like many of his movies too (I'm probably one of…

Arcade Fire The Movie already came out this year. I think it was called It Follows.

I love De Palma, but agree that Dressed to Kill is overrated in his oeuvre. Like, Body Double gets ragged on because it's so deliberately sleazy, but it's so much more exciting and fun.

There's too much complaining about the female cast, when really everyone should be worried because it's a damn Paul Feig film. You know it will be at least 20 minutes too long and have no style.

I shouldn't have addressed this specifically to him, you're right. But it's a prevalent attitude I'm seeing a lot lately.

"You're a white man, so write about white man things. Except for white men, because there's too much of that already."

I completely agree with you on this. The show is unnecessarily violent, in that it switches to gung-ho mode for assumed commercial reasons, even though doing so philosophically counters everything it's building towards.