So what you're saying is there's not a rise in Rape Culture, there's a rise in Rape Culture Culture?

I don't understand how De Palma is considered overrated when everyone but about 100 cinephiles seems to hate him. He's the definition of underrated.

I love how this is the most basic opinion on De Palma a person can have, but everyone who says it acts like they're the first to speak the truth about a universally lauded filmmaker.

You're not allowed to have an opinion like that in 2015. Don't you have an internet to tell you these things? Recognize when something is problematic and the work of garbage people.

I've been a huge fan of De Palma since I was 15, but have always considered Dressed to Kill overrated. It doesn't reach the "Oh My God" heights of Carrie, Phantom of the Paradise, and Blow Out (his masterworks), nor does it reach the B-movie fun of Body Double. It's still better than most other directors' thrillers.…

"No Scrubs" pretty clearly espouses a gross and mean spirited message. So do countless songs performed by men denigrating women, and even some songs by women calling out others as "skinny bitches" or whatever else. But the difference is those songs never have this many people who see themselves as progressives…

Maybe they're clinically depressed?

The vast majority of Hollywood careers are fleeting, and Hathaway has made it much MUCH farther than most ever will. It's sad that movies are bypassing her for leading parts now; the film industry needs to work on its ageism/sexism. But as so many of us are just struggling to pay our rent, how much are we supposed to…

I didn't even think Red Eye was very good. Then again, I felt Vampire in Brooklyn was fun and had his best visual direction, so maybe my Craven tastes are a bit off-centre.

I gave up on that show after episode five. I felt guilty even watching it for that long. The Scream movies each got progressively worse, but they were never close to the series Pretty Little Liars level of cardboard flavoured rice cake.

There's a lot of Godard influence in his earlier features.

Suspense is part of it, but I'm not sure how you can say it's the primary focus of De Palma's interest. He's delivered equivalents to the shower scene in Psycho more often than Hitchcock has. I'm not saying the suspense isn't a big part of it (he's one of the only major filmmakers who knows how to do it well), but De…

I mostly agree with you (though if people are talking less about Hitchcock that may have more to do with cinephilia becoming a niche interest in the days of TV binge-watching than a focus on other directors), but I always felt De Palma was as much about the power of his Oh My God Moments than the actual suspense…

But not "I'm Not a Man"? That was the most powerful song of 2014, imo.

The AVClub gave the album a negative review, so now they have to pretend it was universally considered a subpar Morrissey album. It wasn't.

It actually requires wilful misunderstanding to not see that SHOWGIRLS is intended as a commentary on a corporatized soul-sick America. The film doesn't altogether work (the deliberate attempts at humour in the dialogue mostly fall flat), but its mistreatment ushered in the new era when thoughtful film criticism made…

Sharon Stone had to be aware of that shot in Basic Instinct, since it requires an entirely different camera setup than the rest of the scene. It was just the way the story was spun for the media.

Yeah, I don't want to punish it for having substance. I just mean it's one that seemed to catch on beyond audiences who usually care about horror films, too. Like, it was seen as respectable enough for non-horror people to watch, imo.

Why do you find Babadook to be an exception? It seemed that movie was praised by a lot of people who were acting like a horror movie never had meaningful subtext before.

It's as equally shallow as the first part, but it has the downside of thinking it's more profound and being a lot less fun. The dialogue also suffers from Tarantino trying hard to imitate himself.