I usually think of my accent as relatively average Northern Californian, but I've been occasionally asked by tourists at a lighthouse I worked at if I was at all British based on my intonations. It's possible I've picked up a wee bit of an accent from my father, who was born in Scotland, even though he himself doesn't…

Don't you know? Any (Disney-produced) story about a girl or young woman who wants to prove herself as a warrior is just a retelling of Mulan. Didn't you get the memo?

Dorky? Yes.

At first I was like "it could be okay."

I liked that moment a lot too. But then, the movie ranks as one of my all-time favorites anyway.

In rom-coms, the main characters are the couple. Besides which, the story (of the first film) is really about Marty trying to avoid erasing himself from the timeline and returning to his own present. Hooking up his parents is one part of that, but hardly the only one, and there's quite a lot of the movie which has…

Except it specifically talks about America as a foreign country in the case of Neil Gaiman. #readingcomprehensionfail

That bit about H.G. Wells at the end reminds me how good Stalin was at propaganda. It's a sad fact that so many bright and good-hearted people were taken in by his charisma and the fantasy versions of the Soviet Union he constructed for them.

What you say about transparent screens is completely true though, to be entirely fair, movies of all sorts (not just sci-fi) get computer interfaces ridiculously wrong all the time. You'd think given how much we use computers these days filmmakers would be better at it, but flashy and useless operating systems still…

There's some rom-com elements to the films, particularly the first and third ones, but the main character is definitely Marty and his girlfriend is more or less incidental to the plot. Zemeckis and Gale even admitted that they wrote her out of the sequels as quickly as they could because they didn't know what to do…

"The defining trait of Groundhog Day is that every run is at least a little different for Phil."

Again, I like Prometheus but I think you're right. Both films suffer from similar flaws and have similar strengths. Although,personally like the aesthetics of Prometheus a lot more than those in Minority Report, which feels too "flashy, clean future" to me compared with Prometheus and Alien's more utilitarian,…

I know this is going to come off as highly ironic since I've so vigorously defended Prometheus recently against similar criticisms, but when I finally got around to seeing Minority Report I was startled how little I enjoyed it.

"I cannot believe David, at the very was just a machine that was very good at following his orders!"

It's interesting because I never saw that parallel between Batty and Weyland before. But now it seems incredibly obvious.

I'm going to admit it: I never really was fond of Monsters, Inc. I thought it was decent, but I'm surprised it has such an ardent following. All of the Toy Story films, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, WALL-E, Ratatouille, and Up are all much better IMO.

From what I understand, Sony and Raimi are equally to blame to blame for Spider-Man 3. Raimi wanted to make a movie about Sandman and wrote in the unnecessary twist that it was actually Sandman who killed Uncle Ben. Raimi, if I had to guess, is also responsible for the unsatisfactory conclusion of Harry's arc.

You win for reading comprehension.

If you are serious, I sincerely suggest that you take a look at the fact that your main criticism of the films seems to be that the female lead isn't hot enough and that they should have cast a model instead. A few points.

Depends on what you mean by "long." Great Britain abolished slavery in 1833. America did in 1865. So that's a difference of 32 years or, roughly, one generation. I'd award some points to Britain for that, but I wouldn't call them signifcantly more speedy about it than abolitionists in the U.S.