To your spoiler: I'm not sure what you're getting at. "well it was a good movie, but it didnt play by my film school textbook, so its no good, I give it 1 star" makes no sense. If it's a bad movie, it's a bad movie. Literally no one has ever said this.

The fact that it changes tones so rapidly and unexpectedly is a bad thing. It is a thing that good movies shouldn't do. You can enjoy it if you want, that's perfectly alright. But we're not talking about enjoyment. We're talking about quality. It's not about "playing by some rulebook." Sunshine does something in its third act that fundamentally changes the kind of movie it is, and what it becomes is dumber than what it was. For me, and the podcast hosts, that's a major mark against the film.

So when you say, "the movie was good, therefore, it shouldn't matter why it was good," I'm confused as to what your point is. If you don't care about what makes a movie good, then there's no point in arguing about exactly that, right? Maybe you could clarify? I'm genuinely confused and I want to understand what you're saying.

I agree with most of Zarban's picks, except for Captain Phillips for Best Picture. The ending isn't exactly feel-good, and if the Academy really loved Hanks they'd have nominated him for Best Actor (or even Best Supporting Actor for Saving Mr. Banks.)

So, last night's season premiere was incredible. To build on my True Detective comparison, I think that Hannibal is just as beautiful (the final shot of the episode was gorgeously shot, which made it all the more horrifying) but the writing is much, much better.

Lol, you're actually not the first person I've seen say this. I really liked it!

And yeah, PorridgeGun, you gotta start explaining these ratings. Hunger Games is an 8 and There Will Be Blood is a 6.5? At least give us a sentence.

Yeah, she's from the comics and the actress is on How I Met Your Mother. Frankly, I'm glad she survived, if only because she's one of two women in the entire film.

I think this really gets to the darkness at the heart of the human condition.

Depends on what you think of as a "real" Godzilla movie. I think this remake is going for the serious, morbid tone of the original film.

Not. The. Time. Jimbo.

I'm not thrilled with how they wrapped up the 2002 storyline.

Oh well. Here's hoping that the next two episodes are worth it.

Well, there was a ton of backlash when it got remade, but I think that was more nostalgia than "perfection." The original is great, of course.

To be fair, Marvel hasn't done a female-led film yet either.

To be fairer, Marvel's featured Black Widow really prominently in the past few years, she apparently has a very big role in the new Captain America, and I'd be shocked if she didn't get a solo film in Phase 3.

And as long as we're on that subject, notice how Gamora's outfit in the poster isn't ridiculously revealing and her pose (while kinda goofy) isn't explicitly showing off her body. Well, maybe that's there to an extent. But no more so with her than with Drax. Same thing in the trailer. There's an obligatory sexy shot of her back, but it comes immediately after a similarly sexy shot of Star-Lord. And while there's obviously a big difference between the two (as was discussed at length in the thread for the Avengers commentary) it's a sign that Gamora isn't there for sex appeal any more than the male leads are. Which is refreshing. It's not like the shot of what's-her-face in the Star Trek Into Darkness trailer, which was literally, "HERE'S A WOMAN IN HER UNDERWEAR, COME SEE THIS MOVIE NERDS."