People having fights about whether It Follows (or any other horror movie) is good is absurd. What a person finds scary is intensely subjective and personal. If It Follows doesn't strike a nerve with you, it doesn't strike a nerve with you, but you don't need to shit on the movie and anyone who loves it.

Excellent analysis.

I would love it if we could just get prestige-caliber anthology series on HBO or AMC or something that adapted a different King novel each season. Some King movies are better than others, but none are so perfect that a mini-series re-adaptation would be superfluous.

Both the novel and the movie are great. The miniseries is garbage. There is still room in the world for a great cinematic adaptation that stays closer to the human spirit of the original novel.

Yeah, I think there are plenty of characters that can have their gender, race, or sexuality changed while retaining their fundamental identities, but for better or for worse, heterosexual masculinity is baked into James Bond as a character. It's an essential component of what makes Bond *Bond.*

"that doesn't mean that questioning a politically correct thought is somehow being politically incorrect and demeaning to those groups."

Also, how do people simultaneously accuse PC-types and SJWs of being overreactionary/oversensitive about what other people say AND of being some kind of linguistic gestapo, with no apparent irony?

How do people not have the basic self-awareness to recognize that saying "how dare you demand that people not say things you don't like?" is, itself, a demand that people not say things they don't like.

I am not excited about the new Death Star-esque superweapon, but honestly, as long as they can do something interesting and unexpected with it narratively, instead of repeating the beats of A New Hope, it should be fine.

I think this is a big problem in general, and not just with Roth. As a culture, we have become hyper-aware of subtext in media and hyper-savvy about reading subtext. This means that a lot of filmmakers who grow up loving movies, especially horror movies, are inspired by that very subtext and want to have similar…

I think it's entirely possible—even likely—that Daisy Ridley's character turns to the dark side by the end of this film, and Mbatha-Raw sort of takes her place as the co-lead with Boyega.

Honestly, I think Freddy's Revenge is a better movie than it's given credit for. It's not great, but it's been disproportionately punished for the homoerotic camp and for its deviation from the Freddy formula. But it's not actually a *worse movie* than parts 4, 5, and 6.

I know our bylaws state pretty clearly that we have to reflexively hate anything in Great Job, Internet!, but I think this is fantastic.

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I love the anime, and while I do not hold much hope for a well-executed live action version, but honestly, the idea of a live-action Akira, with the massive budget and unrestrained weirdness and bombast of something like David Lynch's Dune, is very exciting to me.

These are cool, but the artist really whiffed by picking Pacino over Eastwood for Wolverine.

Me too, but apparently it's still stuck in development hell.

Of course there is a difference, but it's a difference that probably can't be reduced to something as pat as "good" or "bad."

Something I see in reviews like this a lot is the sentiment "This isn't a good movie at all, but…" and then explaining why they enjoyed it.

He won't wear that costume, but Marvel will be sure to provide a nod to long-time fans by having Colter say the line "What were you expecting? A poofy yellow shirt, unbuttoned to the navel, with a chain link belt and a steel tiara?", then look directly into the camera and holding his gaze for exactly 7 seconds before…