Fuck. I thought I was the only one who thought this way. I agree wholeheartedly. There movies or books that people love and which are really competently made. But I'm like "eh". Then there messes that people are supercritical about that really struck a nerve with me.

I think Infinite Jest isn't as difficult a text as GR. In fact, it's a very easy and entertaining read in many ways. But, yeah, it's long as fuck.

Rocky IV is basically an experimental film. It's basic quest is to determine how large a portion of a film can be done in montage and still be coherent and still develop any emotional stakes.

II is the worst. It's basically two hours of watching a blue-collar guy go to his shitty job and fight with his wife. Then a half-hour of fun boxing shit.

I'll defend it with you. It's not really a "ridiculous" move in any sense. It actually made an effort to not be a superhero movie, unlike Rockys 3 and 4 (both awesome in their own rights). I'm not sure what people hate about it so much. A lot of people hate "the kid" but teenagers are whiny little assholes. What the…

I caught a whiff of Randian exceptionalism. But maybe it's because I had been primed by TDKR and TDK.

I don't think I've ever been as baffled watching a movie as when Matthew McConaughey says, "When did we become…CARETAKERS. Hmpf." Like, what the fuck, Nolan? Don't you take care of your house and your car? Why shouldn't we take care of the fucking planet?

Yes. Great point. But in many people's minds, things cannot be proven until they're done in a lab or something. And, even then, they still have to take umbrage with the specifics.

THEY PROVE EXACTLY THAT. What are you talking about? Even if they're being influenced or instructed to do so, they can refuse or choose not to take it to the extreme. It still shows that without repercussions, people will be tempted to get away with whatever they can. Or, if they think they can get ahead, they will do…

Neither argument of yours detracts from the fact that the study showed that, if they are allowed to get away with it, a person in power will do it (whatever "it" is), which is the crux of the study, flawed or not.

Yes. Excellent point. The experiment suffered from the same flaws that pretty much all qualitative studies do—which is, mainly/namely, that there's no surefire way to quantify what you're doing and seeing. There are too many variables.

It never ceases to amaze me (in all the wrong ways) that people can talk about Spike Lee for more than five seconds and not mention Malcolm X. In my (inconsequential) opinion, it's easily the greatest biopic ever made by an American and at least as good as Do the Right Thing. And, yet…

Agreed.

I think it was the first movie I saw where one woman rubs herself up against another woman…sexually (in case that wasn't clear). So bonus points for that too!

This has been the problem with most of the MCU. Competently made movies with good "banter" and no real, meaningful stakes.

Double Impact and jump-roundhouse kicking a barrel into Bolo Yeung's chest beg to differ.

Sometimes I come across posts across the vast wasteland that
is the internet bashing Kindergarten Cop. And I don't understand such posts. That's a funny movie, and it's funny primarily because of Arnold.

I bet you guys are fun during a Twilight Zone or Outer Limits marathon.

"Plan 9…" is awesome on so many levels. Yes, it's inept. Yes, it's also genuinely entertaining. And I don't necessary mean on an "ironic" level. It's just plain bizarre.

I mean, certainly anything's possible, ESPECIALLY when it comes to celebrities.