I don't think it's cool or good but at the same time, this is all China. This is how they operate and they're infatuated with Hollywood stars. Their mainland industry has been working up to this for awhile.

4 is the best of all of them.

And Scream 2.

4 was a great movie. That being said, they should've killed one or all three of the surviving leads. I think Gale may have been originally meant to die at the party/webcast scene.

2 got heavily rewritten after a leak. The third act of the original version was pretty great, the final film is pretty meh in the finale.

Scream 4 is the best in the series. It's really fucking good.

Howling VII aka New Moon Rising is one of the most mesmerizing things I've ever seen in my life. This article undersells it.

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He left shortly thereafter for parts unknown to 'find himself' (the actor retired)

He usually does think that, you're right. But I think with Peak the story and characters were there.

Usually I completely agree with you on the guided tour but I actually liked the film way more than I expected, given that I've been over Guillermo del Toro's hot air talk for years. He's immensely talented but he has no focus since he got big in geek culture.

'Worldbuilding' is always del Toro's excuse for making a paper-thin bland movie with nice FX.

Kayla, there have been drug dealing simulators since the mid-1990s when you were possibly not alive.

I'll say it: I found Lucas' blunt honesty and insistence on answers to be often correct and hilarious throughout the series. He's the level-headed one. I also thought they brought his and Mike's eventual reconciliation back home well.

I think Crimson Peak is actually the best movie he's done in years because it's relatively grounded in story, unlike almost all his other English language films. I think PR is incredibly mediocre at best and I haven't loved a film he's made since The Devil's Backbone, until Peak.

Del Toro says a lot of things.

There is an astonishingly committed online PR fanbase which has managed to convince itself that the movie is actually full of rich characters, themes and narrative shorthand through eye contact or body language, very little of which actually exists in the film.

Well, no.

Who can forget the vivid characters and brilliant storytelling of the original Pacific Rim

Yeah, I had to put up with people championing it over ED1 and 2 for years.