Agreed. Tarantino spends 2 hours setting up this tense mystery -then it just descends into exactly what you expect it to be in a Tarantino movie; "everyone was in cahoots to save Daisy; this character shoots that character and they all kill each other, the end". Having every movie end in a bloodbath just feels…

I don't think it's the worst example of his excesses (see Hateful 8 ), but I do think it was in some ways a retreat. After the relative failure of Jackie Brown he went back to the fanboy 70 'homage' stuff that made him famous in the first place. And it was also when his work started getting noticeably self-indulgent.

I'd like to see how he'd approach material that is outside his comfort zone rather than that 70s 'homage' thing he's been doubling down on for years now. Something like Jackie Brown.

I liked Hateful 8 but I have to admit that Tarantino has gotten wildly self indulgent over the years, and the Hateful 8 is every Tarantino impulse cranked to 11.

Jai Courtney would have made a half decent terminator. He was absurdly jacked to play Kyle reese and not a good enough screen presence to be a leading man.

For me, X1 sas barely good enough for its time and nigh unwatchable today. X2 is decent but I wouldn't call it great. X3 is pretty bad. First Class was good despite how cheap it looks. The Wolverine is almost good until the awful third act. What ruined DOFP for me was that it was so overplotted and convoluted, and the…

There's been maybe 4 good X-Men films, and 2 of them (Logan and Deadpool} do their utmost to distance themselves from the rest of the series.

I can appreciate the fact that the original series was a cheesefest, and the concept of the end of the human race is a pretty bleak concept. But the reboot's 'look at how dark and mature we are' grimdark asthetic was so over-the-top that it sometimes teeters on the verge of going back around to being unintentional…

I managed to get to around half way to two-thirds the way though the second season. But the whole 'this ain't your daddy's BSG, everyone here is miserable all the time' thing and it's almost comical levels of self-seriousness and portentousness just got so tiresome I stopped enjoying it. As well as how nonsensical and…

You can find a lot of Putin apologists in The Guardian, a mainstream British newspaper, both in the editorial and comment sections.

He also directed one of the worst recent historical epics (Alexander), so maybe that cancels it out.

His most embarassing movie for me was Alexander, which is so bad that it ends up being unintentionally campy and no amount of 'directors cuts' by Stone can fix it. Casting Collin Farrell as Alexander the Great is one of the worst miscasts I've ever seen in a recent motion picture.

His last good movie was probably JFK, and even that movie unintentionally ends up undermining its own pro-conspiracy theory message and exposing the nonsensical nature of its own premise.

It's kind of like the Chinese guy from Sixteen Candles or the sexism from the Connery-era James Bond films. An unfortunate relic of the era that's a shot of cold water and just cringeworthy to watch now. I usually just fast forward through his scenes.

To be fair, It Comes At Night was mismarketed. A24 films tend to be more artsy and not broadly marketable, and play better with the cinephile crowd than mass audiences.

They didn't. It was made by Lionsgate not Universal.

Alos placing it in the modern day was a little off putting. These movies work so much better as period pieces, especially if you're going to play them straight. There is an orientalism implicit in the concept of The Mummy as a monster, which makes it kind of dated and rooted in the past. Wolfman might terrorize a…

I would actually argue that Season 1's pacing is worse than Season 3's. The plot in Season 1 barely progresses at all between episodes 4-8 and it gets bogged down in subplots that seem to go nowhere. The whole blackmail subplot that you mention has nothing to do with anything else happening in the season and leads…

It's probably the weakest of the three seasons, but I still think it's very good (especially the last few episodes). It's certainly not a True Detective Season 2 dip in quality as some are making it out to be.

It started off quite slow and Episode 3 is honestly a pretty blatant bottleneck. But I think it has picked up a lot in the second half and the most recent episode solidified my opinion. I'd rank it about on par with the first season (which let's face it, while great, wasn't without its flaws either), and below the…