Precisely! Even stuff that’s tangential can at the very least add texture to a work, its world, and its message.

I really hate when critics flippantly use “unnecessary” for things like subplots. Did that scene detract from the film in anyway? If you had a good time and it didn’t subtract from the overall quality of the film, then what of it?

So... Family Circle?

I know! It’s a real blindspot. Is it perhaps due to animator unions? Their audience typically also seeing animation as strictly children’s entertainment rather than art on par with live action? It’s really strange. And sad.

I’m still shocked that Criterion hasn’t managed and/or bothered to get the rights to the film... Wonder what kind of hurdles that would take if it was funded in part by Warner Bros. but released by Miramax seemingly while it was under Disney...

My first screening of Shazam! was tainted by the parents of this poor 6-year-old kid (estimating) who kept freaking the hell out when kids were being beat up or the seven deadly sins were doing fairly gruesome things. I could understand taking a kid to that movie and not realizing it was so intense, but when he's…

I’ve enjoyed McCartney’s music (admittedly mostly when he was in The Beatles) and I love “It’s A Wonderful Life,” but “Wonderful Christmastime” is cloying, and McCartney can be a bit cornball, so I can’t exactly find myself clamoring for this, even though I’m likely to see it at some point, even if just out of…

Oh God, he’s going to cast himself as Clarence, isn’t he?

Also, fuck the people who ruined the 69!

Nah, yours was definitely first. I just went through the process of editing and then realized I should check if someone else noticed first. Then, naturally, I moped when I saw yours but still shared my efforts.

Aw, dammit, I cropped the screenshot and everything to point it out...

Disney’s computer algorithm says yes, and you should also enjoy the four remakes they’ve released or are releasing this year, too! ... ‘cause if you DON'T... [clenches fist]

I think that’s the point? She’s shown only at the end as starting to embrace the fact that maybe she doesn’t have to put up a “try-hard abrasive front” by offering that her friends call her MJ, even though it’s still a habit she can’t quite kick, likely because there are reasons for her to have begun acting like that.…

Clumsy though it may be, I don’t think they intended to have her be Mary Jane, though. Her name was Michelle, and I think the whole MJ thing was a way of saying that she was going to be filling in that role rather than the traditional Mary Jane.

I actually need to see that one... 

Isn’t that the first Step Up, or am I just imagining things? I'm too lazy to find out... Someone tell me.

I’m actually not familiar with the books, but I do have a soft spot for Disney’s dark and angsty black sheep and would happily buy both the Blu-ray and see the remake, and it’s one of only a few of the canon movies I don’t yet have in HD, mostly because it - along with Melody Time and Make Mine Music - hasn’t been…

Isn’t that at least the ideal when it comes to remakes - take something that had potential or aged poorly and make it achieve its potential? I’ve said it elsewhere, but the remake of “Pete’s Dragon” was the embodiment of this.

God loves them. He's just very, very disappointed in them.