I don’t think that’s the only way to interpret it. In fact, what I love the most about it is the way the overall metaphor, can be applied to many things:

You are correct. It was a ton of empty, meaningless allegory and even that element of it was a mess. Allegory is great when it’s within a piece of fiction that makes sense on its own. It’s not smart to try and write just a 1:1 biblical retelling with some climate change stuff stirred in, where the characters aren’t…

He’s going to build Jennifer an opera house and takes the quotes off “Singer.”

Grant Morrison. Dude’s been writing great comic books for like 30 years, and he still has stuff to say. I haven’t loved everything he’s done, but I’ll be damned if I’m not going to check out whatever his next project is.

Adam Sandler. I can’t think of a single project he’s been involved in that isn’t funny, heartfelt, and devoid of cynicism. Keep crankin’ out dem hits funnyman!

I think they spent all last season figuring out the exact same thing that Smallville figured out after its first season or so: the show’s hot garbage when it’s pretending to be an “untold story” prequel to the character’s established canon, and doesn’t become vaguely watchable until they just make it “what if this…

He wasn’t in Bottle Rocket, but ever since Rushmore (Schwartzmans first film) he’s been in most of them, hell he even showed up as one of the tennis match announcers in Tenenbaums even though it was just his voice

They filmed the actor dancing and then rotated each frame so his head stays in one place while the rest of the shot dances around it. Odd, unique, and so much better than if they hadn’t.

Yeah, the CGI in the movie was not high-dollar, but I took a lot of the weirdness as quasi-intentional and indicative of the weirdness of Pennywise and his illusions.

Exactly. They use tricks all over to make him look “wrong,” and increase his creepiness. I just took the jarring dance scene as more of that.

The first movie had the gall to claim being appalled by its mass murder of backwards rubes — poor Colin Firth was forced to kill them! — while also clearly enjoying said mass murder. It wasn’t ambivalent or intriguing, just cowardly and incoherent and it’s worth noting if the sequel has similar bullshit.

Is Before Watchmen actually any good? Because I haven’t read any of it, but what I’ve heard about it makes it sound like it was written by people who didn’t understand the original Watchmen at all. (As I mentioned in the comments on yesterday’s Lindelof article, the one that particularly jumped out at me was the idea…

I’m glad you said that, I really enjoyed that movie. Great cast, looked great and the plot wasn’t any dumber than a Bourne or MI movie - wish it had been better received.

PPS: Also, please delete the folder on my hard drive labeled “not porn”. Don’t look in it, just delete it.

Yeah I think she’s about as far from wooden as you can get. She’s a pretty terrific actress. At least, I think so.

I feel like Haynes is the new Wes Bentley. Both pretty boy detectives who suck at being detectives, and also at acting. I was cringing every time he was on screen. Sooooo awkward.

“It’s just a shame that a genuinely nice action is what set her off.”

If people doubt Vikander has the charisma for this role (which, what?) they should check out Man from UNCLE. She is a highlight in an already great cast.

“If you’re watching this, then I’m probably dead. Now, there’s a nefarious organisation that’s trying to unleash a terrible fate upon the world, so I figured the best course of action was to hide all the information I have about them in a secret cellar, and hope you, my daughter who’s never raided a tomb in her life,…

Roar Uthaug must be the coolest name ever