Kat Dennings in a Thor suit however......

I just hate having my feet elevated.

Keep all personal effects in your pockets and or purse throughout the film. If you drop your car keys, leave them. That’s what insurance is for.

Every major theater in large cities across the U.S. has these now as well.

It was ‘Maximum Overdrive’.

What’s weird to me is that the footrest was automatic. I enjoy the big recliner seats a lot of theaters have now, but they’re not automatic, you have to press a button to move them. That this footrest was automatic and apparently couldn’t be stopped seems really strange.

A lot of big movie theaters have those now. At least in bigger cities

There’s a whole sub-culture around this concept.

it’s a 50 year old movie, get over it.

That’s probably a fair test, but for me the true-true test of special effects is more about how well they interface with whatever environment they find themselves in. I loved the offshore nighttime battles in Pacific Rim. That was one of the things that gave the film atmosphere and edge and a unique visual fingerprint.

Minor nitpick: the Russian pilots in the first movie were husband and wife, not twins. There was a set of Chinese triplets, though. *snorts, adjusts glasses*

Disagree. The novel is brilliant. Sick, but brilliant. The movie is fine, too.

When all else fails, one can at least pretend they’re watching Clint Eastwood give a shit about robots.

It’s one of the great twists in cinema and there’s absolutely no reason to post it here.

The weightless combat (always in daytime, for some reason)

The article linked above about Jurassic Park makes the same mistake, discussing how Spielberg “smartly made the exact opposite judgment [as Crichton], turning the story from a cautionary tale about scientific hubris into an adventure yarn that wasn’t just appropriate for kids, but meant expressly for them. While…

This is a good article but it’s marred by two common misconceptions: first, the practice of giving directors credit for what happens in their movies (the USS Indianapolis speech isn’t in Jaws because “Spielberg” added it; there are writers — not to mention that this is a bad example because Shaw ad-libbed so much of…

Forrest Gump is not necessarily a great movie, but it’s much better than the weird and stupid book it’s based on.

I think “The Martian” is a great example of this. Weir’s book gives a great amount of detail, and seems to give a hard science fiction view. But I think it suffers first from having many long explanations of what’s going on. In some cases, it’s quite relevant; in others, it is at best, a semi-interesting tangent.…

A couple of these books (Jaws, Planet of the Apes) are not bad, it’s just that the movie was better. American Psycho however, that was a terrible book, the movie was a vast improvement. And not sure this should count, but I would say the Deadpool movie was very entertaining, even though I have never liked the comics.