Christ. The internet is the death of nuance and civil adult debate. On any topic at all.

Anyone who points out how murky this case is (without even claiming Allen is innocent!) is called an ‘incel’, or a ‘misogynist’, or any other disgusting thing designed to get them to shut up and stop asking questions. Instead of…

Series 7 is super underrated.

TCSM has Franklin, the very worst person in a wheelchair ever to grace a screen, murdered for our pleasure. Friday The 13th Pt. 2 has Mark Jarvis, a kindhearted man who even has a romantic interest, and just happens to be in a wheelchair, slaughtered for our endless sadness and bitterness.

It’s like they’re…

09/11 will have happened twenty years ago in September. Hasn’t it been long enough that we don’t necessarily have to tiptoe around similar imagery anymore?

And before anyone climbs on my ass suggesting I don’t care about 09/11, consider that many, many Americans who make a big show about ‘caring’ about 09/11 have been…

And that’s not even diving into the jingoism and nuance-free, context-free simplistic ‘morals’ of films like these, which has detrimental effects no matter which extreme of the political divide you inhabit.

I didn’t like Emperor’s New Clothes poptimism when it started to take over music, and I don’t like it with cinema either. And when the auto-dismissal of criticizing these things is ‘well, that just makes you a _______’, it shuts down valid criticism and inoculates certain segments of art from same. Don’t feel like…

unless it’s a sarcastic, eye-widened, laughing-in-horror ‘wowwwww’ at Carrie Fisher floating magically through space.

for as much shit as Lucas gets, clearly this all came out of love for his characters and this world, which is defensible, even if he destroyed it all as a result. i don’t think any of it was mendacious or money-grubbing in mind. he didn’t need to do it. he probably just felt like revisiting that world, y’know? maybe…

i imagine you meant ‘space opera’ but fuck me, Space Oprah is a glorious typo/image. 

The Prequels might be looked at more favorably if they weren’t in the Star Wars universe? I dunno. 

the scene where he’s just fucking trembling, trying to make a sandwich and totally freaking the fuck out feels like the kind of actual human fallout of disasters that we don’t see often enough in disaster films. 

again, though, it’s one of Cruise’s best straight-up acting roles. he really sells the mental strain. unfortunately, he’s not given a ton else to do. 

me too. the entire audience was stunned speechless both times. 2005 America was a raw wound the size of Ground Zero, and Spielberg bravely leapt into that chasm with a very clear allegory. 

Black’s a better actor than I think a lot of folks would realize. Kinda wish he’d been given more dramatic roles over the years. 

re: Portman, I like her as a person but have never felt like she’s an especially gifted actress like everyone seems to believe. She never topped the role that made her a star, and she was what...twelve?

Jackson is an incredibly gifted actor, but in a specific range, if that makes sense. No one is better at playing Sam Jackson characters than Sam Jackson, but casting him against type has never fit quite right.

Also I’d fuck Oscar Isaac ‘til I turned blue, just throwing it out there. So there’s that.

I am the definition of an outside observer with these films. At thirty-seven, the only ones I’ve seen are Sith and Last Jedi, because my brother and a friend dragged me to them, respectively.

But I’m an American, so I think I’m fairly up to speed, even if I see little point in watching them when all surprise and…

I’m not a big Spielberg guy, but WotW is his most underrated work. There’s a documentary grittiness that makes the whole opening segment super upsetting, not to mention Cruise’s mental breakdown brushing all the dead-body ash off of himself. That was brave filmmaking just four years after 9/11, and a reminder that…

I’ll not see the good names of Masters P and Mannies Fresh tarnished with that dig at the artwork of No Limit Records albums, good sir. Besmirch elsewhere!