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There's a quote "no one hates Star Wars as much as Star Wars fans"

Critics rate superhero movies (well, not the DC ones) very well. If you look at Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes, the MCU have great scores. Even if critics are tired of the over abundance of superhero movies, they are still rating them as individual works. I really agree with Tom Heidecker's take on how to view a film. I think Roger Ebert expressed similar sentiments for film criticism. "Does the movie accomplish what it set out to do?" But, to expand that, does that mean a movie is suddenly part of the conversation for the canon of films? For example, I loved Crazy Rich Asians. It's a perfect romantic comedy. It belongs in the canon of romantic comedies. But does it belong in the top 100 American movies of all time? I don't know. I kind of disagree with what I think the AFI did of making sure every genre is included. There's a difference, in my mind, between "the best American movies" and "the best representation of what American movies are". For the former idea, I wouldn't consider Crazy Rich Asians. For the latter, where I'm compiling a budget style of genres, I would.

No one crowns achievements like The Boys. Sad to year Tom wont be coming on anymore, hes my favorite guest and in a way hes in my top 3 Boys

It was a movie entirely made of red (blue?) herrings

LOL That's not the impression I got from Amy's comments. (please note the smiley)

And what’s even more ironic is that toxic group of people would have REALLY hated the rewrites I would have done to The Last Jedi and Wonder Woman.

Yeah, and while the kerfuffles over Wonder Woman or the Ghostbusters reboot or whatever seem to have mostly subsided as those movies get further in the rear view, the Last Jedi anger seems to have continued rolling along. There's also this ludicrous effort to "remake" the movie, entirely by disgruntled Star Wars fans. https://www.cnet.com/news/star-wars-fans-start-campaign-to-remake-the-last-jedi/ Yeah, it's baffling. I personally really liked the movie, but if I hadn't I would have moved on by now.

John Cusack in a period piece like this makes as much sense as it did when a coked out Ray Liotta showed up in In the Name of the King.

I’m sorry you couldn’t make it - although I hope you had fun. We watch I Know Who Killed Me. It was...not good

Yes, but couldn’t you say there are parts of all jobs - no matter how glamorous - we’d all rather not do? If that’s the case, then shouldn’t the critic’s responsibility be to judge a movie based on how successful it is at achieving its goals within its particular genre? I keep going back to what Tim Heidecker said in The Odd Life of Timothy Green episode of HDTGM. He says something to the effect of, while it’s not necessarily a great film for him personally, he can’t exactly judge it against high cinema or anything because that’s not what it’s trying to be. All you can ask is: is it a good kid’s movie? If the answer is ‘yes,’ then the movie did it’s job. So, to me, and feel free to disagree, it shouldn’t really matter if a critic personally likes superhero movies. They just need to ask themselves, “Does Black Panther achieve, or maybe even surpass, what a superhero movie should achieve?” To me, it’s kind of like how many of us view the AFI list. We may not like, say, Westerns, but we can judge each individual movie against other examples in the genre to make an objective argument as to why it should or should not be included on the list.

I’m sort of disappointed that Corrections & Omissions didn’t mention the first thing that the forums said about the episode: that the “Moron sandwich” joke, the only one in the movie that they really liked, was stolen from Hell’s Kitchen.

Right?! Now, whether or not he says something should be entirely dependent upon what his current relationship is with his sister. If they're close enough, I'd say go ahead and have a heart-to-heart, but don't say, "why are you marrying this dud?" Say something like, "I just want to make sure you're happy and are doing this for the right reasons. Are you happy?" And if she says she is, then try to be happy for her. You're not the one marrying him. If she loves him as he is, let her do it. OR, let her make her own mistake. I'm sure she's probably already picked up that her brother's response to the hubby-to-be has been less than enthusiastic. But it's really her choice and not yours. You love your sister, Respect the autonomy, even if you don't like the guy. I say this as a sibling to someone who married worse than a dud. We talked about it before. He knew how the family felt, but we accepted his decision. He's divorced now, but they were together for 15 years.

You mean "in addition to Across the Universe, you're really burnishing your reputation"?

Has anyone recommended Waterworld? I'm surprised this "Mad Max On the Water" hasn't been featured on the show yet. Its sheer awfulness is, in my opinion, on par with Battlefield Earth and Batman and Robin. Thoughts?

My favorite story from that was how the movie originated as a pitch for a "Mad Max" ripoff for Roger Corman's production company. Corman (best known for making movies like "Attack of the Crab Monsters" on small budgets and short timeframes) rejected it, saying, "Are you crazy? This would cost us $5 million!"

I hate when people talk about how stupid a lot of American movies are (like other countries don't make anything but prestige pictures or something), but a lot of the time it's the rest of the world that eats that shit up!