I get it, it’s fun to be contrarian, but the second and third John Wick films are rated higher on RT than the first for both critic ratings and moviegoer ratings. I thought all three were fine and enjoyable as long as you don’t put much thought into what you’re watching.

If anything, John Wick is even easier to rip off than Die Hard, since you don’t even have to think of a novel setting that doesn’t seem to pose a special challenge to the protagonist. (Something Die Hard itself gave up on after the second movie.)

You just need to take an actor with decent acting ability and then tell…

I’m so fucking tired of this complaint though. The issue isn’t the size of the screen, it’s that directors put so much visually confusing CGI jump-cut orgies in the final cut that unless you’re seeing it on a screen 20 feet tall, you’re never going to be able to keep track of what is going on. It’s like everyone…

For a substantial segment of the population, the drawbacks of seeing a movie in the theater outweighed the advantages, pre-pandemic. First of all about 10 years ago I stopped going to any theater at all where I couldn’t reserve seats. Then there’s travel, cost, the random chance that someone sitting near me is some…

With an all-star supporting cast: Sleve McDichael, Todd Bonzalez, Jeromy Gride, and Bobson Dugnutt!

CAST

Clive Barker would hate you. 

You didn’t exactly pay attention to the first one, did you?

Wait to you hear what Rage Against the Machine is all about. 

Always been woke astronaut meme. 

I take it you haven’t seen the original in a while.

I mean the original was about cultural colonization and appropriation of myths (even going back to the original short story, though that was more focused on class than race.) 

“you grow out of all of the songs you love at 16" is indicative of that one ‘too cool and wise’ phase people go through in their 20s where what they loved at 16 seems hopelessly uncool. Then in your 30s you realize that liking only what’s ~cool~ is limiting and really not fun.

It’s so bad. I don’t even care about her changing her song and lyrical choices, but I do care about it being a very boring album with little to no substance. Also, quick soapbox - a lot of songs will have universal idioms as lyrics that you hear and go, “oh yeah, that’s pretty insightful!” Lorde’s version of this on…

Sometimes the obvious answers are obvious for a good reason.

Two immediately come to mind:

Neill Blomkamp is a walking illustration of how precipitously fortunes can rise and fall (and fall, and keep falling) in Hollywood.

There are plenty of great directors in this world who do not write their own films.  This guy should join their ranks.

Honestly given how the rest of Blomkamp’s career has gone, I think we’re a little overdue for an unsentimental reappraisal of District 9. Was the premise audacious? Yes, absolutely. Was the execution good enough to justify going back and re-watching the film? Honestly? Not really?