Re: Valhalla Rising -

If it makes it any more palatable, picture one of the cave dwellers from The Descent, or possibly the Newborn Alien from Alien: Resurrection

A bit more clarification - Azaria specifically cited his inspiration for Apu’s accent was from Peter Sellers, another white actor, performing a broad Indian character in the movie The Party.

Catholics are ‘accepted’ in the way Irish and Polish got their full ‘white’ status - AKA, certain groups saw an increasing number of ‘others’ and, fearing the lost of their status, asked themselves ‘Which groups that we previously shat on but kind of are similar to us can we pretend to like just enough to pad out our…

So THAT’S why they get that thousand yard stare when they see chocolate or they hear the word ‘Mangia’

I can’t call it worst, but in light of the movie this article’s about, one of the stranger date movies have ever done - a midnight showing of Ken Russell’s The Devils.

We both knew what we were getting into.
Totally fucking worth it.

Fun fact to remember - Clerks was almost given an NC-17 for strong language.

...oh Goddammit. Now I just imagine this movie by way of Neil Breen’s “I Am Here...Now.”

Giving a shout-out to an ignored one here - Rip Torn’s ill-fated cremation in the movie Eulogy.

In his will he requested to be sent off in the style of a Viking funeral (the legality of which is openly questioned in the film)
This takes the form of loading his casket onto a canoe with a shitload of gasoline as two of…

To this day, my favorite propaganda fuckup continues to go to the Navy’s backing of the 2014 Godzilla.

What they were hoping would be their latest recruiting move turned them into a cadre of fuck-ups who spend most of the movie making things worse as an increasingly beleaguered Ken Watanabe keeps shaking his head and…

In the latter case, it feels a little like Marvel’s still trying to backpedal some of their earlier stalling on the topic since DC kind of made them eat shit when they made Wonder Woman into a hit.

In their defense, they’re still not Iron Man 2 or Thor: The Dark World.

THAT’S when you hit the bottom.

To be fair here, a lot of this reviews issues seem to be less with this being an explicitly bad movie and more just with the fact the MCU formula is getting somewhat rote after 20-something films.

Which is a bit of a disappointment, but it’s not like, as this reviewer points out, this is doing anything especially…

I suppose now’s a bad time to point out people have dinged Netflix for the fact its selection of older films has gotten pretty scant of late, huh?

Honestly, THIS is the area where I feel the most leery about Netflix’s not releasing numbers.
I’ll admit it’s probably just skepticism on my part, but if you don’t release the metrics, it becomes THAT much easier to declare you have a hit on your hands than if you didn’t (see: all the reports that Bright was a hit,…

Perhaps not notebook, but some of his unmade stuff is pretty well known (look up the one-two punch of Night Skies and his potentially disastrous unmade sequel to E.T.)

Fucking this.
It didn’t fully hit me until last year when I got to one of the 70mm showings of 2001: A Space Odyssey that was going around.
I’ve seen the movie at home plenty of times and liked it well enough. But seeing it in a theater, it was like an experience I’d been missing out on before - and partly because…

That’s an area that gets into a weird debate, given the movies kind of just treat him as the sort of ‘shell’ that the Tall Man inhabits (particularly given 2 and 3 run with the idea that more of him can be made as they are each destroyed.)

...granted, Phantasm canon is a REALLY rocky road to drive over even in the best…

I’m rather surprised Wikipedia could only compile 43 hits for that list. Even if we just go by characters that have specific pages, there’s a couple of notable omissions (The Tall Man from the Phantasm series for one example.)

The very fact you see THIS as the silencing action says we’re not gonna find common ground here.
The site isn’t saying they can’t leave reviews. It’s saying they can’t start dumping reviews for a movie they haven’t seen yet - which is a pretty fair thing to do.
Further as far as the assertion to number...that’s a matter…