This is the only correct ranking

Obviously Spielberg is the GOAT, but he whiffs plenty. There’s nothing unbelievable about the talented Mangold making a better Indy than Spielberg’s two worst.

I’d change Joe’s ranking to put Crystal Skull at the bottom. It’s awful on every level. Easily the worst script I have ever seen Spielberg direct, and not a…

Sure BR2049 doesn’t stand on its own, but that’s okay. It’s a sequel. It riffs on the beats of the original, but also evolves them and has a vibe all its own. And story was never the original’s strength either, let’s be honest. Maybe a stretch to call 2049 better, but it’s a good movie.

Prometheus is the most…

I see what you’re saying but there were select clips I returned to now and again for their entertainment value or just evergreen relevance. Even Stepvhen bits. Colbert breaking character over a banana. The entire first episode of the Colbert Report. The debate where a woman named Nash McCabe asked Obama if he believes…

Not name, but a reference to him yes. He’s since passed on, but topped out about 17lbs in his heyday

As a lifelong cat owner... I totally get that and would never judge anyone for it

I’d say less a lack of plan than a rushed production schedule and fickle commitment to what plans they had. But regardless, there’s a reason I put the word “original” in there. The sequels or prequels could possibly be recreated and in any case are easily ignored, but the originals are the root from which all…

Porn has really abandoned their responsibilities towards parody titles in recent decades.

Because, like all studios these days, Warners keeps learning all the wrong lessons from their failures. (Specifically in this case, they think the Fantastic Beasts series tanked because it doesn’t have Harry Potter, instead of because it sucked.)

Remaking Harry Potter at this point is tantamount to remaking the original Star Wars. The core trio, Radcliffe in particular, own those characters in the public consciousness with an iron grip. This show will have to be nothing less than phenomenal to shake them loose, and I’m not sure even that’s enough.

Yeah, game and movie ratings are very different. If the author had put much thought into it (or wasn’t deliberately trying to gin up controversy), it should be pretty obvious that M and PG-13 are generally pretty equivalent. Even Halo is rated M.

My 7 year old is super excited to see it, my 10 year old is happy to go along.

Actually I think “the toy was based on a movie, and this is that movie” would have totally worked. Buzz’s whole schtick is that he has one foot stuck in his fictional universe anyway and it would have been a hoot to set a whole movie there. It’s just that Lightyear clearly WASN’T that movie, and wasn’t that universe.…

“This would be like if they made a prequel to Edge of Tomorrow for the Emily Blunt character starring Florence Pugh”

Dang that’s on point

Even Coco wasn’t quite fully cooked. It was beautiful, and so close to being great... but severely marred by using the extremely cliched villain twist that’s been in like a thousand other kids/family movies, including Pixar’s own Up (and it sucked there too). Inside Out was the last unambiguously great Pixar film.…

Not really. That isn’t at all the plot of the first film. It’s roughly the second half of the second one, the last 20 minutes of the third one, pretty much all of Fury Road, and back to none of this one.

That’s certainly the movie I was keen to see off the heels of Fury Road

Exactly. In fact I even liked what he turned out to be on its own terms. The incompetent child-king who blusters and blunders his way into more power than he knows what to do with is one of the film’s more interesting angles (and, uh, more than a little relevant these days...). But it just never connects because he…

I was afraid of this, having seen Furiosa at 9 pm last night in a theater with 3 other people in it.

And having now seen it, I don’t expect that to improve. Frankly I’m surprised by the warmth of the reviews. It’s... fine? But there’s nothing to hook new fans. It doesn’t offer any story you haven’t seen before. It…

I smell Poe’s Law...