The auteur theory lives!

Have only seen Kellan Lutz in two movies, Hercules and something set in Indonesia. He was not the problem in either movie, as near as I can tell. Unless your idea of acting is a star so charismatic you don't pay attention to anything else in the flick. Doesn't seem to be bringing a lot to the table, but even so, does…

Actually, no, did not see any of those things. I've never been a consistent viewer because I don't find the show especially well written.

Star Wars tells us feelings are better than thoughts.

You need to explain to the writers there's no such thing, because they don't know.

Back when they had Nick Blood and Adrianne Palicki, there was a scene where Nick's character jokes about so many places to go, so many people to kill. The show of course loved this stuff, unlike Captain America: The Winter Soldier, where this was exactly why SHIELD=HYDRA. The show even managed to turn HYDRA from Nazis…

Didn't see the series but just looking at the reviews I'd like to see a triple feature of Madam Sin, Bunny O'Hare and Wicked Stepmother.

No one who believes The Fate of the Furious was the something better than Unforgettable has credibility as a defender of critical judgment. No doubt we should have gone to a gallery opening or a play or a museum instead, even though none of those are within driving distance. Nonetheless, getting out of the house for a…

We should stay home and not go out at all this week to satisfy your belief that Unforgettable shouldn't have gotten our money and time? I don't know what's weirder, the proposition that Unforgettable is really objectively worse than those others, or you thinking our not buying two tickets would have punished whoever…

You do understand that the other wide releases were The Promise, Phoenix Forgotten and The Gifted. The Zookeep'ers Wife's nearest showing was eighty miles away. Did you really think we should have picked Kong, Beauty and the Beast, The Fate of the Furious or Logan? Seriously?

You got me. Brain fart, wrote Rosario Dawson in another comment though.

The first watching was kind of hollow for me. Partly a personal beef with the depiction of mental illnesses on TV/movies. But also because I'd just watched Falling Water on USA, which also used dream worlds.

Well, thrillers predictably give the win to the hero. Tessa calling the shots may be terrible, but it seems to me that isn't a predictable beat.

I find it very difficult to believe the way Rosario Dawson's Julia won was predictable.
If anything, that in my opinion was a weak spot precisely because it was so unpredictable, not just in terms of the usual in woman in jeopardy makes the intensely dramatic choice to fight back and win! It was also unpredictable in…

Saw this, it was watchable, even though the final resolution depended on one character suddenly changing their mind. Odd that the review didn't notice the daughter appeared to be drugged all the time. Saldana never quite seemed all that invested in being a step-mother. Not quite sure why either woman was invested in…

Relying on memory instead of re-viewing, it seems to me the sequence of events with Strickland must run something like this:
1. Mao is conducting experiments with both Errinwright's UN faction, on Phoebe, then Eros, and with Mars, on Ganymede, for unspecified as yet reasons.
2. Mars' weaponized human experiment, run by…

The notion that it's the stupid people trying to do the right thing who fuck up the world and it's the clever people who know how to compromise otherwise make it work, is an expression of your feelings about other people and how to treat them. It's certainly not a real idea remotely supported by real world experience.…

You can tell me how following Strickland leads to the monster when the two are entirely unconnected, according to you.

Really, seeing "stupid and righteous" as a natural pair explains it all.

I like Keanu Reeves, which is heretical to admit, but I don't like him so much that Keanu Reeves coming back to life is a truly satisfying climax, even if the music said it was. It was just wish fulfillment, without any real drama, aka choice. Personally I walked out of the theater knowing that the real agent of the…