Correct. Prequels almost never work for this reason. And they damage originals in a way sequels can't because they undermine the role of chance/arbitrariness in the original setting.

Someone's probably already mentioned it, but Judee Sill's 'Jesus was a crossmaker' - https://youtu.be/60dwSWq2e6A - is *way* better than most of this list.

And I thought Jupiter Ascending, Terminator: Genisys, and Poltergeist were really really bad, but of course critics see all sorts of stuff that essentially no one else ever sees because (at least in part) they steer the rest of us well clear.

Reestablish the right tone *and* give us some new characters we really love. The reviews suggest both halves of the mission have been accomplished.

Go directly to TAL's episode on Cringing (ending with teen Ira's own cringeworthy callowness to the cast of MASH). Repeat as necessary.

And can the stakes - the destruction of multiple (9?) universes - be as stupidly high?

4 (and 3 good 'uns) if you include Roy Andersson. (And Lindsay Anderson was excellent back in the day.)

Lindelof certainly has his name on a number of high-profile scripts - Prometheus, Tomorrowland - whose problems are legion. The guy must have some kind of Steve Jobs-level reality distortion effect on people in person, so that with *him* explaining everything somehow the scripts read brilliantly, or, equivalently, the…

RT was blown up but there was a smoke-trail of some sort exiting out of the back of the post-explosion shot. It could have just been part of the shockwave, but to me it look like something survived

He's a very clean old man.

Yeah, Steinfeld was aces and Mattie Ross is one of the great roles…but… category fraud must not be rewarded or we'll only get more of it.

Agreed. Podcasts under iTunes are now a disaster, and each update seems to make things worse. I can't even fully delete (i.e., in a way that actually releases memory) podcasts from my iPod classic any more.

I assumed that the writer meant that the majority of readers who aren't prepared to pay for content are largely responsible for content-providers having to find third parties (e.g., advertisers) to pay the bills. This is a common-enough idea. Compare: people wanting (willing the end of) ultra-cheap food and clothing…

Hailee Steinfeld getting a supporting nom. for True Grit (2010) (in which she's the narrator and in every scene) was truly fraudulent.

Hate? Really? At any rate, the same effect was used in a sequence in George Stevens's Alice Adams (1935):
https://youtu.be/yM40txEwkB0
Do you hate those shots too?

Agree. Also, the retconning of Star Wars' universe in ESB initially drove lots of fans bananas. Here's the Cinefantastique review of ESB at the time, which was fairly typical of more hardcore fan reactions:
http://tinyurl.com/oy3duqo

It's worth mentioning that although she wasn't a punk, punks and post-punks all loved Kate B.. The influence of 'Wuthering Heights' on that side of music was immediate: suddenly you had Robert Smith basing songs around Camus novels, Joy Division channeling Kafka and Ballard, Magazine distilling Dostoevsky, and so on.…

I'm sort of with you on Prisoners and Insomnia but I'd describe OUTIA as a classic case of 'comes together brilliantly in the last half hour' and 'has a terrific ending'. It was the *early* going in OUTIA in complete darkness for almost 90 minutes when you really don't know what's going on (let alone grasp the…

Well, with all her Marvel money, ScarJo will have maximal flexibility in future to do exactly the great small films with cool directors that she wants.

Yep, I've had students just assume that Norman is principally a messed-up sexuality/gender identity case and certain sorts of censoirous academic writing about Horror tend to lump Norman together identity/sexuality-driven cases like Silence of the Lamb's Buffalo Bill. In defense of my students, they're picking up on…