While I can see the appeal of wanting to do IT as 2 movies, I'm pretty tired of Hollywood splitting novels into multiple films, so I'm all for one IT, beginning, middle, and end. Somehow Hollywood was able to compress thick novels into single films for many decades, and many of them are classics. A good writer can…

Yes, I see The Master as a character study, not a film that works only "symbolically." Most of PTA's films are character studies, aren't they?

The General doesn't offend me nearly as much as GWTW. In The General, the fact that Buster Keaton is a Confederate doesn't have much impact on the plot (I believe Keaton thought this would make him more of an underdog). You can enjoy the film without thinking about that too much. GWTW, on the other hand, is full on…

So I'm not the only one who can't stand The Lion King. When I saw it in its original release, I had high hopes because of The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast. But the whole thing was set-up, the middle act was just "Hakuna Matata," and then the climax. And I never wanted to hear "The Circle of Life" ever…