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Paul Banta
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Exactly. They understand that the purpose of movies is to mystify, depress, and indoctrinate.  And the purpose of these lists is virtue and intellect signalling.

Inside Llewyn Davis? Lost in Translation? What? Are they out of their minds? ILD is not even in the top 5 best Coen movies. It’s not even that good, really.

It makes sense that there would be a lot of love for pointless abstract films that “experts” can hold over everyone’s collective head and simply say, “You don’t get it.”

uhhhhhh no Shyamalan or Usual Suspects? The heck?

I really thought we were better than this by now. Just done with it.

Everything I’ve read about this so far has boiled down to “Did you like the X-Files exactly as it was in the 90's? Well, here’s some more of it, I guess. Warts and all.”

“My Struggle” is exactly like any of the mediocre mythology episodes that the X-Files aired over the years.

This seat reserved for Tom Servo

I loved Palpatine’s story about Plagueis. The glee on his face as he told Anakin how Plagueis’s apprentice killed him in his sleep. It was a glorious thing to see. McDiarmid made these movies bearable.

It’s pretty obvious the majority of shows don’t exist to entertain us. They exist specifically to make us sit there and wait through commercials.

Boy, Sleepy Hollow shot it’s load early didn’t it? It doesn’t even have a writers strike to blame like Heroes did.

From collaborator to inspiration, two tributes to James Horner: Both James Cameron’s reflections in Entertainment Weekly on the composer who was the “heart” of Titanic and Bear McCrary’s in Playboy on a man who was childhood hero are must reads.

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These dubbed and heavily-edited versions of Yamato were airing pretty heavily in syndication in the 1980s, including every weekday afternoon on Channel 56 in Boston

Say what you want about those prequel movies, but John Williams is NOT part of the bad.

Whaaaaaaaaat?! Starship Troopers is brilliant.

It's a nice job but the beak really resembles a cheez it

I had heard the story behind this novel was that Lucas hired Foster to write a sequel to Star Wars that would have been able to be made into a film with a small budget, just in case the first film didn't do so well. So, he wrote this book that had very little characters & locations.

Also, Luke pimpslaps Leia at one point.