Yeah, but The Faculty was pretty good!

Hence, The Thing.

Eh. I would say a solid majority of cinephiles tend to basically automatically prefer foreign movies, just because they're foreign. I've had so many conversations with people where I'm the only one who feels that movies, historically speaking, are one of the few things America unequivocally does better than everyone…

You're right. I totally made it up. Out of the infinite lies I could've told, that's the one I chose.

Stahl is still the best John Connor by a long shot.

This was my reaction as well.

I've always thought this was the trick with CG. Use it sparingly and either reinforce practical effects with it, or use practical effects to reinforce the CG. There needs to be something tangible in the effect or I get taken out of the moment. Even with good CG.

Ok.

Fair enough. I should've just gone with "stupid." Or "dumb." Or "idiotic." My bad.

The movie turns him into a Christ-figure. Chris Kyle suffered and died for us, for our sins. If you can't see that, I don't know what to tell you.

Raimi is also a dynamic, creative, exhilarating director. Or, at least he used to be.

He was the director. He can choose to leave out otherwise meaningless, superfluous political statements.

I don't buy that. The movie clearly festishizes Chris Kyle and his twisted interpretation of "heroism." It's not about the breakdown so much as how heroic and saintly Chris Kyle is for sacrificing himself so he can kill faceless, nameless Arabs/Muslims in super awesome ways bro. The fact that Eastwood changed the…

Agreed. But his movies haven't been worthwhile for awhile. He's the most overrated director of the past 20 years. I never understood the Million Dollar Baby love, for example.

This is so accurate. It blows my mind that smart people can't see that South Park spends a lot of time making fun of them, precisely. Parker and Stone are smug, contemptible swine who, as you pointed out, think it's wrong to care strongly about anything. And it's seeped into society as a whole, because people are…

Super hot taek time:

Agreed. That movie should've been on the short list for all-time greatest action movie, but it suffers from the same malaise as most of our superhero movies—there just wasn't a villain that felt worthwhile. Even at the theater, I was thinking, "Wait, so this guy spends the entire movie being terrified of John Wick,…

I suppose that's probably the attraction for a lot of folks. It's the same sort of juvenile power fantasy that appeals to us all on some level. It's the same reason we watch men in trillion dollar metal suits fly around and punch robots in the face. But I agree, a vulnerable hero is much more compelling, and one of…

Yeah. I purposely isolated myself from any TFA news in the years leading up to its opening. So when Uwais and Ruhian showed up in the movie, I about shit my pants. I was so excited I was accidentally slapping the person next to me.

I feel like Return of the Dragon and Enter the Dragon still hold up pretty well. But I agree with you on his other films. I was watching The Big Boss a couple of weeks back. It had been years since I watched it, and I was disappointed in how bad most of it was. It has it's moments, even outside of the action scenes.…