No I think they’re saying that it’s harder to empathize with people who spent their career pointedly not empathizing with others.

I’ve said this before but my issue with Bombshell is that it’s the story of women who spread propaganda for The Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party for years who got rightfully upset when leopards ate their faces but don’t really care when leopards eat other people’s faces.

people keep dropping in and convoluting things that were just fine as structure that didn’t need to be explained in the first movie.

Loved the first movie. “...with a FUCKING PENCIL”. That one scene is everything you need to know about the character, full stop. The movie succeeds because it builds Wick up as a mythical, unstoppable badass who is going to kill every last obstacle in his path however he can - and then has him do it.

The “mythology” of the third movie is very tedious, more people keep dropping in and convoluting things that were just fine as structure that didn’t need to be explained in the first movie. And this — “Dacascos, it turns out, is perfect for that heightened John Wick world. He’s a fan. He wants Wick to know he’s a…

Your worries will turn into outright panic once you see the third one. It really wasn’t all that good. Felt like watching a FPS on a console than a film. Only with Halle Berry doing some of the shooting. 

The thing about the John Wick films is that they’re basically the action version of classic musicals like Singin’ in the Rain or an American in Paris - there’s a plot and there’s dialog, and they’re good and even great at times, but really they’re just an excuse to string together a series of thrilling kinetic…

Seconded. Joelle’s reviews are outstanding. They’re as good as anything that the AV Club put out in its prime.

It interests me that as a life long Star Wars fan... that scene you snipped was my favorite.

There’s no way that film should work - who the hell would want to see a teen/high school noir played 100% straight, it’s ridiculous.

Other UK children’s editions of classic literature:

I love that there’s no wasted words. When Max changes his mind and follows the women before they go through the salts to tell them they should turn back to the Citadel, there’s no heavy infodump about why he followed them back after all. The movie has established their characters so well that we already know why Max…

Agreed in full; it’s equality without any attempt to beat you over the head about its equality, for the very simple reason that the characters make the choices they make because they are trying to survive, and don’t have time for this bullshit. There’s no great and grand moment where Max hands the rifle to Furiosa to…

its flurry of chaotic but always coherent action

I am a filthy avocado toast eating millennial, and I was floored by Fury Road. I think it’s properly rated, but that any movie with such wide acclaim is going to have some haters, high on their own contrarianism, who call it overrated.

“Well, she was a lot.”

Just because...

*Everybody* knows it’s Alka Seltzer.  Only dirtbags know it’s also condoms.

restraint, as far as i can tell

Mark Evan Jackson likes to call The Good Place “the smartest dumbest show on TV”; Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein work the same way. They’re spot-on satires and, in the case of Saddles, a scathing social commentary. But Brooks never forgets they have to be funny too. So we have a perfect replica of James…