Um, they talked about the martial arts choreography in the interview, and it's not generic. Quite well-researched, actually.

… An animated movie, I hope. Please clarify that! Don't jinx this thing!

Wolf Creek was 2005, right? Hmm, since then the best horror movie might be Black Swan (which was dressed up as a prestige film with the ballet and all, but come on, it's a horror movie!). Shutter Island was unscary enough to fall more squarely on the "thriller" side of the "thriller"/"horror" divide but it's close…

There really weren't any good guys in that story, but the Maccabees do come off especially dickish when they're killing innocent Hebrews who happened to convert to Helenism of their own choice. There's a reason that story isn't an official part of the Hebrew Bible.

Attack the Block and Midnight in Paris were robbed. Both better than Source Code and much more sci-fi/fantasy than the about-and-marketed-as-sci-fi/fantasy-but-not-really-in-the-genre-itself Hugo. Haven't seen Captain America yet but I'm guessing it's not quite as good as those either.

Anime Boston took up my weekend.

Does Ran count? Yeah, that wins hands down. No contest.

So, it's anti-bullying and anti-homophobia, which is good, but it also completely ignores the existence of Aspergers, which isn't good. Ughh, when did Glee become the model for what activist causes are and aren't worth attention?

Or, you know, the social difficulties of Aspergers make kids more susceptible to bullying.

@avclub-ebedc894d1695b9f4c9a9b39e69db0b9:disqus : I'd say The Shawshank Redeemption had very strong characters not of the "evil bad guy" type, but then again I've only seen the movie and not read the original short story. Could that be another case where the movie exceeds the original?

Studio Ghibli's His Dark Materials. Hell even Chris Weitz's His Dark Materials without the studio butchering the film to the afterlife and back would suffice. My favorite book series deserves a better chance at a film adaptation than the occasionally-beautiful-but-edited-to-oblivion mess we got.

It's a TV adaptation, but the first Fullmetal Alchemist anime did the same thing and was all the better for it. Much smarter to do that than to go into fillerville like every other damn fighting shonen based on an ongoing manga.

Both Tinker Tailor and Alfredson's previous film Let the Right One In suffer from taking details that make sense in the books and throwing them into the movie without context and creating Big Lipped Alligator Moments for anyone unfamiliar with the books. I'm thinking mainly of the owl and the crotch shot.

Gnomeo and Juliet 2: Sherlock Gnomes.

Not just the ending, the whole damn main character and by extension the movie. I read the book first and I hate the movie. Don't know what people see in it; even without knowing it's a bad adaptation, it's just boring.

I've written a script for a Gundam movie, that's also a musical.

Or Barton Fink. BARTON FINK! BARTON FINK! BARTON FINK!

Racist alien big-boobed explosions.

What? Your niece doesn't like Avatar? Why not? What shows does she like?

It got made, but not released in America. A review: http://thecinemasnob.com/20…