Wow between this and your I.P. Frehely joke you're really killing it with the under-12 set today

Yeah you really can't use RT for anything before the mid-late 90s.

And that's a fair distinction which I am totally okay with. But I think a lot of people view ALL emotion as sentimentality. Schindler's List is 170 minutes of bleakness which totally earns an emotional ending. They survived the damn Holocaust! They're alive today! That's real emotion! But people will deride it

No you're not. And neither am I. We're just looking at this differently.

Or maybe you just view emotion as glurge. But no matter; I'll never convince you otherwise

Hey! He leaves the check!

But that's not actually, you know, true. Watch Jaws and tell me where the heartstring tugging is. Are there tearful phone calls to his children on the boat so that we're crying? Nope.

You raise a point there. I don't mean the man any ill will, but he sometimes seems to be what filmmakers hate about film critics

Heh. Thanks, man.

Sure, sure. Anything can be excessive. I'll even grant the Empire of the Sun, which I adore, has a moment which I think is completely ridiculous in this vein. But I think smart-movie-people have a huge weakness in that they associate emotion with lesser movies and prefer colder, more clinical films. And as such,…

Yes, that's the party line, I know. It just doesn't make any sense. Do you hate horror movies? They make you scared. They absolutely manipulate you. Do you hate comedies? They actively solicit your laughter. Thus manipulating you. What about thrillers? If they're exciting, do you feel cheated? For some…

Can a movie be a "defining great" of film if no one has seen it?

Sentimentality…"hopeless sap"

As a teacher, I find your last comment pretty weird. I mean, should we also punish his parents? And fire the principal? Is that justified too (and I say this as someone who really doesn't like that movie)

Well Chinatown is one of my favorite movies, so I understand

Heh, so true. I'm left of center, but watching people manage their hypocrisies never ceases to amuse me

Well…how true do the allegations look? Because that puts the left in an interesting position. Support the young talented black filmmaker, or support the young woman who accused him of rape?

*sighs*
they're going to completely glorify Nat Turner, who was a complicated, nuanced person, and people are going to be
(somewhat rightly) angry at the simplicity, and they're going to write angry thinkpieces,
and it's going to be another salvo in the culture war. I'm dreading it
already

That was Robert Sean Leonard

Yeah he throws so much in his wrist, rather than his shoulder. Like, as you allude to, many novices