Everything you don’t like about it is because it’s basically an opera updated to a modern musical style, and it really should be critiqued with that in mind. I think that the film shows that all the things audiences historically found so compelling about opera still resonate with them as long as the music is made…

I think Tenenbaums succeeds and holds up because Gene Hackman and Anjelica Huston pushed Wes Anderson so hard on deepening their characters.

“No, that can’t be right!”

Has to be said, the otherwise admirable effort to conceal the spoilers in the write-up for Audition is kind of scuttled by the YouTube thumbnail on the attached trailer, which immediately clues the viewer in to the fact that SPOILER(ISH) things end up taking a rather nasty turn.

If he let go of the hammer and it immediately went off, then he didn’t actually cock the gun.

Also, he shot someone.  Even if it’s not technically his fault, you’d think a vaguely empathetic human being would feel SOME guilt over pointing a gun at someone and then shooting them.

20 years on, I can still remember my excitement waiting for ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ to come out. I was counting down the days until December 26th. I can’t imagine what I’d have felt if it had disappointed me, but luckily it had quite the opposite effect.

That’s Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever. If you’re going to name-drop the worst-named movie of all time, at least get its cringingly awful name correct.

I think Fellowship is the best adaption of the three LotR movies and I still love it so much.

But... the story isn’t dreary, in so much as it’s told with colorful and ebulliently staged musical numbers, the evil duke is a cartoon mustache-twirler, and defines its own message as “the greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.” It’s advertising its own simplicity, so it seems weird…

the mistake americans tend to make regarding verhoeven is that they think movies are about “dollars boxoffice” and he thinks movies are something he does so that he wont have to get a real job, pissing people off is just a bonus, and yet very smart commercially.

Yeah, pop music has never had anything to do with doomed love affairs!

ah, good catch! I still stand by Legally Blonde being one of the better classic comedies out there, and deserves a spot!

Yeah but Shakespeare in Love was an actually good movie, which puts it ahead of Crash and A Beautiful Mind. If anything winning Best Picture was the worst thing that could have happened to SiL’s long-term reputation, had it been merely nominated & Gwyneth Paltrow won Best Actress it’d probably be remembered very…

This film isn’t very realistic. The real Catholic Church has WAY more gay sex.

I’ll be That Guy: Fellowship of the Ring should be #1. Ghost World, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Amores Perros, Mulholland Dr. and a lot of other movies on this list are five star classics (I’ll also be That Guy and say that In the Mood for Love bored me senseless), but 20 years and probably 200 viewings later I can…

Well then he musta been pissed when he saw Revenge of the Nerds.

Only Verhoeven could make a film where the person you think you’re supposed to root for rapes the main female character halfway through, and then wonder why Americans didn’t like the movie.

Well, rock me Sexy Jesus!

Paul Verhoeven, whose last film, 2016’s Elle, was the kind of challenging arthouse fare that would seem to point toward a more cerebral phase of his career. Benedetta is both that Verhoeven and the Verhoeven who made Basic Instinct and Showgirls.

Although the Virgin Mary dildo doesn’t hurt.