FWIW, I liked him in Summer of Sam and Hollywoodland. Those roles were less showy than some of his other ones. Maybe he works better in character roles than as a leading man — but then again, I thought he was fantastic in The Pianist.

Ugh, it pains me that Unbreakable was never a TV series — it's a great premise and the film set it up perfectly. Imagine where they could have taken that story (preferably on a cable network).

Torque is awesome, and I will go to bat for it any day of the week. It's like if someone watching those over-the-top 90's action films ever said, "Isnt this a little ridiculous?", Torque was there to answer: "Yes. Yes it is."

In my experience, Filipinos (I'm married to one) are totally enthusiastic about foreigners experiencing their culture. There is no grumbling about "cultural appropriation!" if for example a Canadian wants to make adobo, or eat at Jollibee. So, curious honkies (and other ethnic groups) should definitely NOT worry…

If you vote for the KKK-endorsed candidate, then you are either racist or you are enabling racism. That is not OK.

I finally saw Titan A.E. last year, and I agree. It was like a proto-Guardians of the Galaxy mixed with the classic arcade game Space Ace. Or, like Heavy Metal/Heavy Metal 2000 with all (or most) of the naughty bits edited out.

Shrek 2 gets an automatic pass from me because of one scene:

Has she seen the 1978 version starring John Hurt? If not, remedy that soon. They show the blood! All of the blood!

I have not, thanks for the rec!

Ford seems to know when to play it light (maybe direction helps) — although now that I think of it, I can't think of any other characters other than Han Solo, Indiana Jones, and maybe his character from Working Girl.

I thought Master of None did a pretty good job at this. But then again, it is based on a real-life relationship.

I *so* wanted that film to be good. It's the curse of biopics — the more interesting the subject, the more by-the-numbers the film is.

Oh absolutely…but they're also rarely the protagonist(s), like the ex-Wehrmacht officer in Operation Condor. (To be fair, it was actually his hot granddaughter who asked for Jackie's help, IIRC.)

Hollywood always overcompensates their VG adaptations by cramming them with as much needless plot as possible. Why?!?! I mean, do you know why people liked these games?

Right, I guess my only potential problem with Operation Condor was that the Nazis weren't quite bad enough. But yeah, Jackie Chan is so well-meaning that you just go with it.

Operation Condor had some pretty terrible Arab caricatures, although I can't remember any specific dialogue. There's also the potentially troublesome fact that one of the protagonists is an ex-Wehrmacht officer. I guess the fact that he wasn't ex-Gestapo or ex-Nazi party apparatchik allowed me to stick with the film.

That was indeed an HBO movie, and I remember being really impressed with it at the time. Or at least with the visual effects. Plotwise, it followed the good old, depressing Fail-Safe formula, but I don't remember too much about it, except for Powers Boothe and Rebecca DeMornay as part of the crew on a B-52.

We largely have Phil Tippett to thank for that. He was Hollywood's top stop-motion animator in the post-Harryhausen era, and he was hired by Spielberg to create the dinosaur VFX for Jurassic Park in stop-motion. Then Dennis Muren got curious to see if CGI could be plausible, and he was allowed to make a…

"[Shakespeare] sounds much better in its original Klingon."

I remember the first time I saw it in the theater, that scene where she finally faces Miles Dyson just blew me away. It was so intense, with her cold demeanor breaking down into rage and horror, her finger wavering on the trigger while the little boy cries "Don't hurt my daddy!" In the end, after her years-long…