All Confederates are traitors and criminals. Honoring Confederate traitors has no place in public areas, and no other country would permit it. Outside educational contexts, the only time a Confederate flag should be displayed in public is if they intend to burn it.

I was exaggerating a bit for effect, but I am tired of the celebration of nostalgia.

I rember Men in Black as well, though in retrospect it got so much praise at the time partly because mid to late-90s genre filmmaking was awful and blockbusters were just expected to suck.

Same with this 90s nostalgia by '90s kids' (usually people born in like 98) - guess what, the 90s fucking sucked.

Yeah, I have no issue with it, any more than I have an issue with the undeniable overrepresentation of Jews in the media sector. I do recognize the problems with Blacks and Hispanics being extremely underrepresented in the tech sector and unfortunately the perception of Asian success leads to patronizing "model…

As an Asian American, I'm not afraid to say we're overrepresented in the tech industry, academia and STEM programmes. In Hollywood though we're still pretty underrepresented in non stereotyped roles.

Showgirls actually does have a lot of subtext, even though it's a terrible movie. Verhoeven is a great director and Showgirls isn't representative of his wider filmography.

There's also the advent of more serious spy thrillers like the Bourne films or Craig era Bond which made the exaggerated campiness of Austin Powers look dated and not work as well.

Also, just about every track Dr Dre did with Snoop Dogg or MC Ren (Fuck wit' Dre Day and Everybody's Celebratin', Nothin' but a G Thang, Always into Something).

It does a good job capturing much of that era, especially the look, but human elements and nuance aren't James Cameron's strong points. The characters, especially the first class passengers were all comical stereotypes.

Also, it simply has a low budget charm that the other polished turds don't have.

Kurtzman and Orci suck but they deliver the goods financially, which keeps shareholders and executives happy. Though I don't think Kurtzman will be getting too many directing opportunities any time soon after The Mummy.

The movie looks great outside of Pratt's silly glued on beard, and the performances are good, but the movie falls apart. Even leaving aside the fact that Pratt's character is kind of a manipulative stalker which the movie glosses over, many events are just a little too convenient, bordering on Deus Ex Machina. This…

Here's the thing that gets me about KOTCS - it has nothing to do with those 50s Sci Fi B-movies. It's just the same adventure serial stuff from the first 3 movies, with a few vague 50s references and a vague sci fi element. Having the exact same formula but sticking an alien thing in it doesn't make your film an…

I've seen the suggestion that the movie would work better and be more appropriate as a thriller taken from Jennifer Lawrence's character's point of view.

James' shitty acting and character is a bit of a running joke among fans. Even other characters in the series start to lampshade it.

The sound design especially is a big part of the movie's atmosphere and that works best in the cinema.

It (1990) - Suffice it to say, it hasn't gotten better with age. The kids section is considerably stronger than the adults, but it's still very uneven.

It was in some ways admirable that they tried to address the whitewashing controversy, but the way the in-universe explanation is given is extremely tone-deaf, and merely accentuates the complaints rather than addressing them. It opened up the opportunity to actually make a point with itself…but it does nothing with…

It's interesting. Marvel gets a lot of shit over this (and there are legitimate criticisms, like whitewashing The Ancient One), but the X-Men films are far worse offenders. Of the 5 big comic book movies of 2016, X-Men Apocalypse was by far the whitest, which is even more jarring considering the series is supposed to…