A.I. would have been a better movie if it had given up on trying to be Pinnochio and realized that it was really The Velveteen Rabbit.
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"Well this list was hastily put together."
As a CA resident and lifelong Democrat who considered him part of the freakshow that was the '03 recall… he really wasn't bad. He's a true moderate and a more rational thinker than I gave him credit for, neither establishment nor ideologue. I certainly didn't agree with him on everything, but I have to admit he set…
I'm sure the reference is to Debarge taking Willow on a "shortcut." But it pops up in just about anything you do with vampires. The penetrative act of biting defenseless young women has been an implicit rape metaphor since the genre was invented.
His smile in the last shot, after Xander lets slip that Angel was there… priceless.
I'd have cast him as Legolas. Good looks, but more mature and steely as he should have been, and I have a feeling he could've more easily handled the flowery dialogue.
Look how obviously the three licks of fire are copies of the same lick of fire.
"The only ones who care about by tax returns are dwarves."
-Smaug
"War… It's fantastic."
Fuck I can't believe I forgot Dark City, I love that film. But in no universe would it be nominated for Best Picture, it's too weird.
It did. But that isn't a Best Picture accomplishment. That's direction and cinematography, both of which it duly won.
Everything means that.
I'd say it was strong longer than 20 minutes, but it sure didn't know what to do with Ryan once they found him, and the frame story was lame.
The category did not yet exist, although the Academy is not entirely off the hook as they were asked to provide a special achievement award and declined.
Or Sesame Street. Yoda is just creepy Grover.
Jaws is so focused on ideas of masculinity (and forces of nature) it almost feels like a Hemingway story to me. Not a bad thing.
Where A.I. goes wrong is it's delusion that it was a robot Pinocchio movie, when it was really a robot velveteen rabbit movie.
It's time for Batman to go properly back to the small screen. A low-key, noirish Batman within the short, focused seasons of HBO is exactly the Batman we need right now.
Also likely to be an accurate description of Trump's presidency.