Thanks for setting me straight, Bronto. I thought that, like most Disney movies, it would be a straight documentary. Now I have to go reevaluate my clearly mistaken views regarding talking and singing mice, and flying elephants.

I hope this remake reflects that actual male lions generally just lie around all day while the females get shit done.

I haven’t.  Still business in the front, and a party in the back.

It is wight Brienne who appears to be chasing Arya, but then a wider shot reveals that she’s just running from wight Tormund, who has a troubling leer on his face and no pants.

Timely Nirvana reference.

Chaplin did it for me.  What a great performance from someone I did not expect could pull it off.

There is. It’s called POOG (to get people to reverse their love of Paltrow, get it)?

“One of the major themes and context of the original Native Son was how deep and stark the Jim Crow/Segregation divide was, and how it really was extremely different and incredibly frowned upon to have whites, especially white women to be openly mingling with lower class black men. Such handicaps and issues don’t…

Is that what you call it?

“Such handicaps and issues don’t exist in today’s world at all.” Yep, there is no longer any segregation at all in society (especially between Chicago’s present-day South/West sides and the North side, where the film is set), and everybody, especially white supremacists, are totally cool and down with “race mixing.”…

That pose is not just “Come at me, Bro.” It’s also the exact pose that the song leaders at church use when they want the congregation to sing.

Acme Products? This is the Pentagon calling. Do you have a pen? We have a biiiig order to place.  First Item:  1000 Acme Steel Balls.  Item 2;  500 umbrellas.  Item 3....

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Several layers, I think. First, it justifies their bigotry (“Look, I’m being oppressed by gay men, so my negative thoughts about them must be true!”). Second, it provides a basis to tell themselves that their bigotry is not, in fact, bigotry, but “fighting the power” (“If I’m the victim, then [insert name of…

Sploosh!  Oberyn out!

What the fuck is wrong with you?  

Thanks for the insightful and nuanced discussion, SG.

Hello, studio? This is WeirdandGilley. I have been instructed that I, personally, should “let people enjoy things.” This Godzilla movie is apparently one of the things that I should “let” people enjoy, and I have some apparent control over that “enjoyment.” So, I’m now hereby rescinding my criticism of the latter-day…

Here an “s” for Hulk. Hulk happy now?

Counter-counter-point. I, too, was an enthusiastic consumer of the originals (also, Ultra-Man), because they were cool, cheesy, fun. (A giant moth! A flying turtle!  Bad dubbing!). These remakes just suck all the fun out of the entire concept. Plus, they nearly all take place at night, and watching a nearly-entire…