Isn’t The Outsiders usually read in middle school rather than high school?  That’s when everyone I know who’s mentioned it read it.

I read it and I couldn’t begin to tell you what the point of the story was....

Last I checked, they don’t hand you a suitcase full of cash at the end of a tournament. Typically you pose with a giant fake check for photos and then either they give you a real check or they wire the funds to your account if you’ve provided that information.

Wow, talk about adding insult to injury — no one should be forced to live with a copy of Paycheck in their possession!

I think it’s not very wide, unfortunately, which is why the studios started reducing them in the first place. DVD “extras” were introduced as a way to encourage people to pay the higher price for DVDs as compared to VHS — you were getting more by buying the DVD. When a sufficiently large mass of people had adopted…

Adopting an alternate spelling doesn’t get around the trademark if there’s still a likelihood of confusion. (“Syfy” is also inapposite because in that case the network was looking for a word it could trademark. In the case of “comic-con” you need a word that doesn’t infringe an existing trademark.)

***cough***Yogi Berra-ism***cough***

I would strenuously dispute that Black Panther’s a “run of the mill superhero film” (I’d say it has to be in any credible top five ranking of best films in the genre), but I do agree that it’s probably not “Best Picture” worthy.

Michael B Jordan was pointlessly angry, a rampant misogynist, and otherwise one of the MCU’s most forgettable villains.

Unless you’re still paying the disk subscription fee, I don’t think you’re included in that stat.

I know how to stream, but I have literally hundreds of movies in my queue that aren’t available for streaming, so why would I give up the disk option?

+1 I don’t understand how someone could work for a site that does movie reviews and not be aware that Netflix’s disk catalog is far, far larger than its streaming catalog (let alone that many older and/or foreign films are not available for streaming on any legal platform).

Supplemental materials on DVDs were actually in decline even before streaming became a thing, but the introduction of Blu-ray revived them.  Streaming, unfortunately, will probably permanently kill them off outside of specialty releases by ShoutFactory, Criterion, and a handful of others.

+1 That’s why I went with disks when they split the service. At that time, I had 497 movies in my queue — 334 were only available on disk; 6 were only available streaming; 157 were available on both. I just watched the 6 streaming-only titles in a marathon weekend and then selected the disk-only option going forward…

I don’t know about his specific situation, but I think there are some library systems that don’t stock R-rated movies.

You can’t search and build your own queue on streaming anymore?

I promise that I returned Klute after I watched a couple years ago, so that one’s not on me.

Ya’ know, they still sell these things called “DVD players”....

I was going for the Anglicized translation, but yes.

That said, I think a lot of the controversy comes from how confused the movie’s own message is. Mulan is unhappy with her role in society, discovers a new role she excels in, and then...gives it up (despite an offer from the highest authority in the land to live basically however she pleases) and goes back to the life…