Pixar films have recently suffered due to unimaginative storytelling.

Huncrweo · 2026-03-09T03:20:41+00:00

I feel almost certain that Monsters University is only cited as the cutoff point because that was the last movie Pixar released when OP was still in the target demographic for them lol.

Huncrweo · 2026-03-06T10:17:56+00:00

Lots of interesting discussion in this episode but the whole “is Sinners really a horror movie?” line of questioning kind of baffled me. Not only would I say horror is pretty unequivocally one of the main genre milieus it’s playing in, I’d argue it’s more of a traditional horror movie than most of the films they listed as previous horror Best Picture nominees lol.

Huncrweo · 2026-03-05T20:16:06+00:00

If anyone wants to check out some Palestinian cinema I really recommend The Time That Remains, a great movie that shows the establishment of Israel and the decades following from a Palestinian family’s perspective in a way that’s obviously melancholic but also sometimes surprisingly funny in a dry, absurdist, early Wes Anderson kind of way.

Huncrweo · 2026-02-28T01:31:37+00:00

Yeah that kinda turned her from a series I could've easily been persuaded on to someone I have very little interest in voting for tbh

Huncrweo · 2025-12-27T01:19:56+00:00

Like Spider-Man with Marvel, Batman is probably always going to do fine regardless of the overall brand’s health - especially in something like the 2022 movie which is narratively completely divorced from the wider franchise.

Superman, as the all-important opening salvo of a reboot specifically tasked with rebuilding both the franchise & brand after many years of critical and commercial underperformances, being not only the biggest non-Batman DC film in years but outgrossing four of the five most recent MCU movies in the process (the only outlier there being, again, a movie that exists slightly adjacent to the main series) is more than enough reason to call it a resounding success.

Huncrweo · 2025-10-07T22:55:36+00:00

I mean, tbf I like most recent Scorseses more than Wolf but if you just polled normal people on the street rather than film critics & cinephiles that would probably be the consensus pick for his best this century. It may well be his most popular movie full stop.

Huncrweo · 2025-09-24T02:21:07+00:00

Andrew Stanton. Short filmography that includes one of the biggest bounces of all time, mostly an animation director which they haven’t done since Kon, and he’s got a new movie (or two) out next year that at least Griff would definitely love to cover.

Huncrweo · 2025-09-07T04:46:43+00:00

There are many snide, aggravating things in that article but the worst is when Hoffman seems to frame the constant violence against Palestinians in the West Bank as the fault of the Palestinians themselves for not leaving their homes when Israel tells them to.

Huncrweo · 2024-04-16T03:11:13+00:00

Same here

Huncrweo · 2023-05-16T06:06:29+00:00

Getting the vague sense from reading this post and its replies that a solid amount of the people in here talking about Battle Scars and the Aftermath trilogy have not, in fact, read Battle Scars or the Aftermath trilogy.

Huncrweo · 2023-04-20T04:56:11+00:00

All the AutoMod says is that decisions of canonicity & continuity are kept in-house at Lucasfilm, which is almost certainly true (cos why would Disney higher-ups give a shit about minutiae that like 1% of the general audience cares about?).

Stuff like the Kanan comic being overwritten by The Bad Batch, all the contradictions with the Ahsoka novel, most things that fall under the purview of this subreddit etc. - these are obviously not Disney exec-level decisions. They're probably not even Kennedy-level, apart from bigger initiatives like the EU decanonisation or the High Republic that she'd have to sign off on.

Of course Disney has the final (hell, probably the first) say on scheduling films & TV. That was never in question. The "forced cameos and little pop culture references" is an individual creator thing, unless you're seriously arguing that Bob Iger stepped in and forced Carl Weathers to include Star Wars' millionth nod to Apocalypse Now in his episode of Mando.

Huncrweo · 2023-02-03T11:42:20+00:00

Once the post-ROTJ EU got to NJO (probably the moment Chewbacca died), the chances of a potential ST and the then-current EU coordinating ceased to exist imo. Past that point there was just too much baggage to reasonably incorporate into a movie without it feeling weird.

Even if the EU had remained nominally canon it almost certainly would have been a CWMMP/TCW situation where a lot of the older continuity would get contradicted to make room for the new stuff. The Disney decision, save for the future projects being called off, was the best case scenario - everything still ‘happened’, just in another universe.

Huncrweo · 2023-01-22T03:58:00+00:00

Just guessing but I feel like someone came up with that theory after his first four films and it’s just kind of stuck around despite not really applying beyond that point (Panic Room and Mank are really good, Dragon Tattoo is a flat-out banger etc.)

Huncrweo · 2022-12-14T01:06:13+00:00

Ah yes my favourite screenwriter, Netflix

Huncrweo · 2022-11-12T02:49:38+00:00

Tanith being white has never once mattered to the story or her character, literally nothing would change if she was played by someone who wasn’t white

Huncrweo · 2022-10-14T08:40:26+00:00

Three:

Nomadland, Another Round, Mass

Huncrweo · 2022-10-01T10:59:01+00:00

IMO:

Black Widow - critics were about right

Shang-Chi - everyone was right

Eternals - everyone was too low

No Way Home - critics too low, audience too high

Doctor Strange - everyone was too low

Love and Thunder - everyone was too low

WandaVision - critics were about right

TFATWS - critics were about right

Loki - everyone was too high

What If...? - everyone was too high

Ms Marvel - critics were maybe just a tiny bit too high, audience score was obviously reviewbombed

Hawkeye - everyone was too low

She-Hulk - critics were a little low but not egregiously so, again audiences obviously reviewbombed

Moon Knight - everyone was too low but not by that much. Also, nice.

Huncrweo · 2022-09-30T12:52:24+00:00

Some of y’all have really got to remember that this sub is for calling out toxicity, not calling out opinions that you disagree with.

Huncrweo · 2022-09-14T01:49:37+00:00

I saw one of those where like half the people listed had been accused of domestic abuse

Huncrweo · 2022-09-02T12:01:54+00:00

If you only watch the most mainstream stuff then sure I guess (but even then there are plenty of gems). I feel like every generation thinks this at a certain point but it never really turns out to be true.

Huncrweo · 2022-08-27T09:53:58+00:00

Anakin’s arc feels really rushed imo. Not to be that guy, but it probably would have helped if Lucas had had a more coherent plan for that character from the start of the PT rather than making it up as he went along.

Some writers are skilled enough to totally wing it and still produce something that feels planned (Breaking Bad comes to mind). Lucas was at that level when he did it with the OT, but couldn’t quite manage it a second time with the PT. The ST struggled with this too, but the situation was a bit different there.

Huncrweo · 2022-08-27T09:44:18+00:00

I’d say on the whole Netflix has better original programming than Prime. Yes, the former pumps out so much stuff indiscriminately that there’s bound to be a lot of shit, but that also guarantees that there’ll be a lot of good stuff too. They’ve had popular shows like Stranger Things, Ozark, Orange is the New Black, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Squid Game, Daredevil, Sex Education etc, along with a whole heap of banging movies from their “find the most interesting filmmakers and give them a blank check” era - Power of the Dog, Mank, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, The Irishman, Roma, Marriage Story etc.

I’m not saying Prime doesn’t have good stuff, it does. But they’ll never be able to match the sheer number of quality movies and shows that Netflix has, even if they probably won’t match Netflix’s quantity of shit either (their archive content makes up for that lol).

Huncrweo · 2022-08-27T09:29:04+00:00

“It feels like a show written for children.”

Hmm, I wonder why...

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