You watch Duel and you think to yourself that this was made by a nobody on a early 1970s TV-movie budget, and it Does. Not. Compute. It is one of the most remarkable, astounding accomplishments in cinematic history.

Shouting at someone is the absolute worst way to get anyone to see your point of view, and they are doing much more harm than good when it comes to _________.

Fair enough. So I guess instead of paying to record an album, David Bowie should have fed the homeless first. And instead of buying that album, that fan should have fed the homeless first. And instead of paying for an internet connection to post on comment threads, a person should feed the homeless first.

Citizens do help to feed the homeless. Must that be all they do?

When I would talk to my friends who hated it, they would say variations of, “Why do I care what happens to a robot?” To which my response was essentially, “Why do you care what happens to anything? What is the nature of sympathy? If the robot ‘believes’ it feels something, why wouldn’t you believe it too?” I think on…

It’s part of France’s new 24-24-24 time measurement plan, inspired by Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 economic policy. 24 hours in a day, 24 months in a year, 24 years in a decade.

For what it’s worth, The Lego Movie burned through its goodwill me with in the first 10 minutes. And I would say that the steeply diminishing box office returns for the next two movies (that are somehow not Lego Movies 2 & 3) would suggest the broader culture is with you on this one.

This is one of those movies you like enough to wish you liked it so much more. It’s like Wilder plants this magnificent garden and at the end you look at it and say, “Why didn’t anything grow?” It was supposedly to be his stab at an indulgent epic, 3+ hours long and full of ambitious tonal shifts and tangents. But…

I hear the first review you post can be quite painful, and it’s better if you can find a special movie that speaks to you. But once you get a couple under your belt, the creative juices start flowing, and then you can just start banging them out one after another after another.

This is what DC did that Marvel didn’t do: they gave the keys to the whole damn thing to one filmmaker. Hell, Marvel’s initial effort was shepherded by Jon Favreau. And then they kept spreading it around. There was an overarching sensibility, and beyond that, do your thing. Whedon, bring the quippiness. Branagh, give…

The children certainly would.

I like where your head is at, but how about holding the competitions on the actual killing floor while you have to fight off starving children trying to take the food from you?

I don’t know if I’d go to ‘reprehensible’ with it, but it is at least (pun totally intended) very distasteful. Does everything have to be a competition? Can we not engage at all with the dimension that animals are dying to provide the materials and that humans are dying from lack of access to these materials? And how…

“falling down some stairs”

What dance does one do for Jesus? So many attractive options: the Macarena, the Chicken Dance, Pop-and-Lock...

I’m not the type who looks to pile on to everything said by a Person We Don’t Like, but this is Bush League put-downery. Maybe “dying cow” plays to the farmland crowd she panders to (a Southern man don’t need Neil Young around anyhow), but it’s not conjuring up anything for me, and I doubt it would hold up…

Please, age-range disparity is the only thing involving two consenting adults that we’re allowed to be smugly dismissive of and superior about.

And who wants to be a Sheryl Crow wannabe?

Ron voted for Gary Johnson.

In Pacific Rim, acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro summoned up all his considerable expertise and artistry to make... a passable time-killer about robots punching godzillas. Now the torch has been passed to a first-timer whose experience consists largely of producing a 300 knockoff for wtf is starz lol.