Yeah, I don’t get it either. EWS is fantastic, a movie that only gets better with repeat viewings, and my sense of its legacy, this comments section notwithstanding, is that while critical appreciation has taken awhile (as it did similarly with pretty much all of his movies after 2001), it’s now generally well thought…

Ha! Good point.

Everybody knows, but he’s the big boss. I have shared with a few coworkers in private how uncomfortable it makes me, but they sympathize and that’s about it. I have actually thought about surreptitiously documenting some of it, but then I think, well for the most part he’s a really generous and decent guy who’s taught…

Oh man, this hits home. I’m a guy and my male boss is always playing around inappropriately with me. He actually kissed me today on the lips as part of a joke, which I was definitely uncomfortable with and also isn’t the first time he’s done something like that. He’s the owner of the company I work for and has done a…

There’s no reason that Transformers 4 and 5 needed to be full stop.

“Plus a 3 hour movie - I don’t care what the hell you are watching - is too damn long. I miss the days of economical story telling where a director could get in and out of a movie in an hour and a half.”

Nevada state law defines mass shootings as terrorism.

That's really dismissive for an issue I'm guessing doesn't affect you. Setting aside the fact that this is a pop culture website where many discussions revolve around the pop cultural news of the day, this is less about pop culture than it is about racial insensitivity and appropriation, which is an important issue to…

Certainly, and I don't mean to impugn either profession, merely Snyder's portrayal. My words could have been chosen more carefully.

Well then I stand corrected and the movie is all the better for it.

Oh I agree, I wasn't defending the guy. Sucker Punch is just awful though you have to give Zack Snyder credit where it's due - he actually got a studio to finance his masturbatory fantasies, though I suppose he would claim a movie in which girls with names like Baby Doll dressed like slutty schoolgirl burlesque whores…

Not that Patty Jenkins doesn't deserve a lot of credit for making this movie work, but the movie was actually written by three men, one of whom is the much maligned Zack Snyder, who is often accused of misogyny.

Hmm, interesting that your read on the film is that it's primarily a superhero romance because I classified it more as a war film than anything else, at least regarding its thematic concerns and cinematic influences. In fact, one of my favorite things about Wonder Woman is just how understated the romance is. Sure…

But your example is just as reductive. I don't scare easily but I can still recognize the craftsmanship of a good horror movie even when it doesn't frighten me, like in my case, The Exorcist, which is a masterpiece of make-up, effects work and acting, but it honestly elicits laughter from me more than anything. Or in…

A better name for this movie would have been Prometheus 2 because not only is it very much a direct sequel, it also suffers from the same drawbacks that kept that film from being great, namely a plague of idiocy that infects all of the characters, who behave more like stock slasher victims than a team in charge of a…

Sadly the majority of people seem to not understand that a suicidal person is not in the right frame of mind. Depression is an illness.

I completely agree. Not only does it not make sense thematically, it also completely breaks the rules and logic of the diagetic world. I prefer to think of the unicorn as a visual symbol on the nature of existence in line with the rest of the film's concerns. Not Deckard isn't human, of course he is, but rather would…

That's awfully dismissive. Trailers are important pieces of popular culture or can be at least. I mean advertisements for sure, but there can be a lot of artistry that goes into them.I can't be the only person who has favorite trailers, some even for movies I don't care for, like the original Phantom Menace trailer or…

I strongly agree. I don't like Shymalan's exploitative tendencies at all. I felt gross after this movie. The way those rape flashbacks were shot, with the camera's leering eye struck me as lascivious. It may not be what he was going for, but it doesn't seem like he thought much at all about the issue besides using it…

I recently rewatched Unbreakable for the first time since I saw it in the theater way back when, and I had virtually the same reaction I remember having then. It is a thoroughly dour movie, oppressive and lugubrious and not very fun to sit through at all, and I'm somewhat surprised it's developed a fervent fanbase.…