One of my many complaints about how Frozen overshadowed Tangled: Mother Gothel is a great villain for all of those reasons, whereas Hans is a cliche villain shoehorned into the story for the sake of a twist.

Jafar had a more straight-up villain song that didn't make the final cut of the movie (the plot diverged strongly from when the lyrics were originally written), and it's pretty great.

This is disappointing. However, "explicitly nixed Misty" is a pretty good tongue-twister, so we've got that going for us.

Bleeding out of your eyes is indeed pretty metal.

Ehhh I don't buy it. Winking suggests a level of charm that Cavill has yet to be shown conveying.

To be fair, it was a really complicated sandwich.

Man's gotta eat.

So, about that Colleen Wing/Misty Knight team-up: is that happening soon, or … ?

With all of the discussion of the Disney Renaissance in the comments, I have to say that Mulan is, IMO, severely under-rated as a great movie from the latter end of that era.

I gotta say that I think the Hamlet comparison is overblown. "Hamlet" is a revenge tale combined with a brooding meditation on mortality and morality. "Lion King" is a coming-of-age adventure about not running from your mistakes. One is about death and making your peace with it, the other is about life (and the…

I'd be willing to murder literally all of my colleagues as long as it meant I'd also get to take out the guy who took my lunch.

Yeah, after that dismal failure of the Hunger Games franchise, you'd think Hollywood would finally learn that people don't want to see that sort of thing.

I don't think it's the worst thing in the world (or even in that movie). But it was enough of a jarring tonal shift from "grim battle against overwhelming odds" to "superhuman feat of agility" that we're all still talking about it.

I don't think it's your lack of perspective that's the problem - you're hardly alone in thinking that the romance was contrived and unnecessary.

Luke dueling Vader? YAWWWWWN. They hardly even do any flips!

To address the video itself: this isn't terribly groundbreaking analysis. A big battle following the same dramatic arc as a larger story is pretty common in movies. I know that the battle at the end of The Avengers does it (fantasy/sci-fi), and I'm sure Saving Private Ryan does as well (realism). The major difference…

Increasing the frame rates and going high def with everything does not help the CGI look any more real, that's for sure.

Fair - there was plenty of non-Bilbo characters that got too much focus.

I hate how the contest between Gimli and Legolas during this battle was handled. Their friendship was kinda given short shrift in general, but when the Uruk-hai were reduced to video game-style enemies who are killed for points, it not only removed the urgency of the battle, it removed a great part of their gradual…

Question: were they even ghosts in the book? Or were they just an army of dead, i.e. like zombies?