hmmm I get a white supremacist vibe from your post.  Go away.

I mean, songs from Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King were all over the radio, I remember hearing Circle of Life and Can You Feel the Love Tonight allll the time. I wasn’t going to Disney World around then but just as a general exposure? yes, absolutely.

Man I loved Dragonslayer wayyyyyyy too much as a kid. Probably the biggest reason it jump started me reading a lot of fantasy, which then lead to D&D. So yeah thanks Dragonslayer lol

What executive watched Computer Chess and thought “we should hire this guy to write a remake of Land and the Tramp!”? 

Hattie McDaniel won in 1939.  

I don’t really know why, but I’m just delighted that Tim Robbins decided the interview wasn’t ENOUGH of a retrospective, so he brings up more movies.

So did Lea Thompson.  Ewww.

In the distant future when the Oscars do their In Memoriam section can the just run this clip with Paul Rudd's name for him.

Hmmm... Tell me more about this plan. - Sincerely, NOT an insidious A.I. group-mind with the ability to time travel and a desire to enslave the human race.

I’m also not sure it was a pushback against anything. Hollywood will coopt anything that will help it sell, including 60s idealism. This movie did what all the great horror movies do - introduce a situation with no real explanation and no rational way out. What’s happening shouldn’t be happening, not in a nice…

I did not interpret it as terraforming so much as an attempt at communication from an intelligence so alien that communication is not actually possible. We can’t describe it because to do so drives us insane (witness the events in Florida when first contact is made). And of course, what can’t be described is not…

The books are, in my opinion, unimaginably better. The movie wasn’t even truly adapted from them; Alex Garland openly admitted to not even reading the book while making the movie. There’s a huge strength in doing that sort of story in literature rather than a visual medium, the ability to choose what you do and don’t…

I really liked Red State and thought maybe it was a sign of something better from Smith. I’ve been wrong so far. 

I remember when I thought Chasing Amy was the beginning of a true explosion in Smith’s talent.  There was a bizarre time when Smith’s name could be put alongside Quentin Tarantino and PT Anderson.  The 90s were crazy, man.

This reminds me of my favorite story from college.

While it’s not explicitly expressed, I feel part of the issue is that the shooting had happened during a Batman movie, and the shooter referred to himself as the Joker when talking to the police. So a Joker movie playing there feels classless at best.

I mean the difference is that Rambo is nakedly xenophobic, jingoistic, and trashy. We know what it is just by looking at it. Rambo did not make very much money for an actioner. It is not garnering oscar buzz. My small local theater has used up half of its marquee with an advertisement for Joker for weeks now. The…

Is Beth still available?

He did not like me dressing up as a hamburger and singing and playing the guitar for him.

“Steve, if you could choose between Marion Ravenwood and Willie Scott, which one would you pick?”
“Duh! Willie!”