Just curious how many here saw JAWS during its original release during the Summer of 1975? Stood in a line that snaked down a block and turned the corner a line formed an entire showing prior to yours?  Then immediately went to the mall and bought a JAWS t-shirt like millions of others?

Those shots from the shark POV underwater is what’s made me scared of deep water. That something would rise from beneath to take you. 

Oh, the “bad filmmaking” thing is such horseshit.

I’m on the opposite end. I like Star Wars fine as a franchise, but TLJ is the only Star Wars movie that felt to me like it was trying to make a point.

I go the other way. The fact that JJ Abrams has issues with The Last Jedi only confirms my feeling that it’s a masterpiece.

See also: Recall, Total.

I agree, and I also think Deathproof should be seen as half a movie. So we need another double feature Grindhouse. And no skimping on the fake trailers!

That’s what they did with the original, which had half its setpieces removed because they scared test audiences.

Only if you spent absolutely no time idolizing Tyler Durden.

You may!

Cult movies get that way most often because some weirdo somehow got hold of enough film making equipment to translate the very idiosyncratic voice in their head into a charming little mutant. They’re terrible choices for remakes because you can’t do something like that by committee. It’s hard to imagine a great cult…

I’m still eight months away from 40, but I’m with you. Phillips accomplished what he set out to accomplish, but remaking classic Scorsese movies with a famous supervillain in the lead role isn’t that impressive to me. I’m fine with it existing and would support more superhero movie + X reinventions as long as the box…

Obligatory gif. Yeah, this should be a highly entertaining flame war between the pro versus anti Joker crowd.

Ah The Marriage Story, that totally relatable tale of a newly minted MacArthur Fellow going through a divorce with his wife, who is now starring in a network TV show.

The blurb up top makes it clear what happened. “The AV Club” is a collection of individuals. Some of them thought the film was pretty good, but enough of them really hated it that it made the list. And now the comment section is going to be dominated by 20-something white guys crying about it.

And why doesn’t Batman dance anymore?

The remake tones down the psychedelia and the “Why are we here?” meditations on mortality

I refuse to believe that Hero Fiennes-Tiffin is the name of an actual human, and not a Monty Python character. 

No, it bothers me too. There is a certain “Disney-fication” of the sets that feels really unreal. It’s the same reason with the heavy-handed ethnic stereotypes too.