Netflix: "We're hear to remind you of the impermanence of all things."

Just a couple months after announcing they have all of Albert Brooks' films for streaming (and getting Brooks to film a little comedy skit for the news), they're already losing "Defending Your Life." Geez.

I was going to say The Burning too! It does a better job of feeling "authentic summer camp" than the Friday the 13th movies.

I remember a post on Cartoon Brew forever ago where the blogger posted pictures of many classic cartoon characters, their imaginative, stylish, and expressive design intact and glowing from the page, and then showed Shrek. Fucking ugly Shrek. And the problem with so much modern animation was perfectly clear.

I really enjoyed Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World. It was extra Albert Brooks-y that during the bit where he has to give stand-up in a theater with the lights turned up, I was watching the film in a theater with the lights turned up. It was like watching Albert Brooks in 3-D. Enhanced comedy awkwardness.

(And it's okay to find Bill Paxton annoying in that film.)

"It is her story, and it is very much a story of her reclaiming those things the 'Alien' took from her, including her family, through her own actions."

I first saw it in the mid-90's too but it still had a big impact on me, diluted somewhat by all the military SF that followed (not that Cameron invented the genre, but ALIENS cemented it cinematically, and in the process created a lot of cliches).

My heart is with ALIEN, but ALIENS is one of the great sci-fi action films. Maybe its impact has been dulled by being ripped off for decades.

Yep, when you're 12 and you have access to a camera, it's what you end up doing. I remember making a video for a high school class, and we put a bunch of skits in it, and my friend insisted on quoting "The Princess Bride"…and he did an entire scene from the film. I was frustrated because I wanted to do something…

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…