Dora’s like, what, 7 or 8 in the show? And now she has boobs?

Yes, that’s the bigger problem.  You should get a job at the Alamo Drafthouse (where they shine a light at your crotch the entire time but threaten you with death for looking at your cellphone).

This is easy: Midsommar is boring as fuck. The kid came in, went to sleep like most everyone else, and then woke up at a bad time.

Anderson Cooper is an “idiot”?  No he’s not.  You may not agree with his questioning here, but calling him an “idiot” for that is some Trumpian bullshit.  Get some manners, stop being a jerk for clickbait’s sake.

It starts scary, but one you realize the monster is metaphorical, it just becomes sad.  It’s not a horror movie.

How in the fuck could anyone be in that position and NOT say “We’re going to need a bigger sub”?!?

“Which is why the ending of the film is so rewarding. It somehow becomes a bizarre breath of fresh air, telling you that everything is gonna be ok. But then because of that, you also realize that what happened was a terrible, terrible thing.”

But for the rat they never would have had the OPPORTUNITY to fight. They would have lost, full stop.

It’s very reminiscent of Pacific Rim, as well.

We have the internet to thank. Once upon a time, if you had a gripe, complaint, or hate, you told your friends, you told your wife, and they ignored you, or commiserated, but either way it ended there.

Generally agreed, especially on that last point.  Given our current race toward destruction, most movies will likely be remembered as oral histories passed down by the village elders in-between raids by armed gangs trying to steal our gasoline.

Yes, I understand the probabilities argument, and I get it that’s the cute point the screenwriters were making, but from a dramatic perspective, it’s a cheat, a deux ex machina, and it robs the Avengers of agency over their win. They didn’t win because of their powers, their teamwork, or their intelligence, they won…

Can’t argue with that logic.

I think that as theaters increasingly become exclusively the province of 200M+ tentpoles, and everything else is left to TV, the issue will present itself pretty clearly. Netflix movies are barely findable on Netflix, through all the chaff, and rarely, if ever, have any meaningful effect on the culture around us. Consi…

Well, and if any of those movies turn out to be good, we can revisit it. But so far the best we’ve seen out of Netflix are a middling effort from the Coens and Roma, which got lots of critical love but seems to be universally reviled by everyone else, including me.

Are you suggesting that 95% of Netflix movies aren’t just as bad?

Well, thanks for keeping it civil over a difference in subjective opinion.

Well, the question is whether the production is intended for theaters or for TV. If it’s intended for TV, it’s a TV movie, and with reference to Spielberg’s gripes, would be eligible for an Emmy, not an Oscar.

I’m hoping that if Netflix’s business continues to suffer as other streaming services come online, it will force them to be more discerning about where and how they spend their money.  Right now it seems like they’re not interesting in funding much beyond movies that were rejected by the studios, typically for good…

In that case I don’t have any issues with it.