Movies about the mob were never a cultural monopoly comparable to superhero movies today, that is simply bullshit. There really weren’t that many of them made in the ‘70s. If we’re talking about the US, you’ve got a few classics like the Godfather 1 & 2, Mean Streets, a couple shitty ones like the Valachi Papers, and…

I agree with your general point, and also more specifically that Gangs of New York isn’t a gangster movie even if it has “gangs” in the title, except for the Kurosawa reference. Jidaigeki / samurai movies were not “niche genre films” in Japan at any point during Kurosawa’s lifetime, they were the backbone of the…

Except he’s never said that, and he loves genre movies. He just thinks that particular type of movie is trash.

My favorite part of that whole thing was a comic that featured the line “Computer... what is love?”, but I can’t seem to find it. Anybody remember that?

Whether those statistics are reliable depends on how they’re collected. Unpaid or “informal” overtime might not get reported, for instance. It’s not just “the media”, literally every interview I’ve seen with a Japanese in any domain, every reference to work I’ve ever seen in a Japanese movie or read about in a book,…

I’m pretty sure that line is just an hyperbolic comment about the TV show/movie debate this whole post is about, and not about Twin Peaks’ quality.

France doesn’t give a shit about Jerry Lewis, it’s 2019. Fucking Americans need to update their old-ass stereotypes.

Historically, parodies tend to arrive in large numbers at the end of booms or trends. There are many examples of this, some of which were highlighted in the article. This may or may not be the case anymore since reality is broken and garbage now rules us all.

“...almost inevitably assured to be the future subject of a Scorsese biopic...” Ugh, what the fuck is that dig supposed to mean?

She can worry about working and earning money when she’s an adult. I mean really, what the fuck are you talking about? There are tons of little kids playing the drums on youtube, none of them are going to start touring anytime soon, or working as session musicians, which is basically how a drummer would make a…

To all the comments saying the original artstyle looks better (which it does), it looks like you can use the Satoshi Urushihara art from the some of the earlier remakes (that’s what you see in the side-by-side comparisons at 1:02).

There are 7 Langrisser games (five by the original team and two garbage games much later), so yeah, it’s definitely a series.

They’re turn-based strategy RPGs, so it’s not too far from those series. The big difference is that each main character acted a general and was accompanied on the field with units of soldiers of different types. The first two games were a lot more hardcore than SF or FE, but the series got easier as it went, including…

I feel like whoever’d want to drive this would probably want to plow into a crowd of people as well.

The Joker should become one of those franchises where every sequel is just a the same thing in a new locale, with a new guy going nuts every time. The Joker in France, The Joker in the UK: A Jolly Joker Jamboree, The Joker IV: An Irish Jig, The Joker in Space...

At least with fart you can technically say “flatulence” or “gas” instead, even though you shouldn’t have to. “Penis” is literally the clinical term for it; you can’t get any more proper than a goddamn clinical term. Anybody who censors “penis” or “vagina” is a dumbass.

Screenwriters have no power in Hollywood, though, so he may not be personally responsible for those particular things. Maybe he was only able to get Remember the Titans made as long as it stuck to certain tropes because Disney wanted an “inspirational” story (Disney always wants inspirational stories), and maybe…

The issue is that like 95% of pop culture is mindless escapist bullshit now. Whenever you come across a positive comment or review about a really stupid movie, there’s always a part where the author writes some variation of “not every movie needs to make you think”. Of course not, but it would be nice if at least some…

That’s not a counterpoint, that’s what he’s saying. People are choosing to escape in bullshit fairy tales about people in ridiculous suits solving world problems with really hard punches.

He’s not putting words in your mouth, he’s judging you. Why is it that none of you people who get offended at criticism of superhero movies can argue without making shit up?