Exactly: Despite "Some scary images", the ratings aren't about "scariness", they're about suitability-- A human facing peril, is, unfortunately, much less suitable for a G rating than a plastic toy facing peril, hence the irony of the scene...However, since no peril happened anyway, those parents ar...

I'd never heard of this until it popped up on WB's review request list, so I'm game. Used to love the live show as a kid! Aw, c'mon, you know the rules of 70's/80's Saturday-morning: Find out whatever movie or TV show kids are watching the rest of the week, and co-opt it! :P Still, as long as Warne...

And as we eventually found out , it was funnier on CollegeHumor.com: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1939332 (Okay, this's the fifth CH.com sketch of near Daily-level brilliance I've found myself reposting since their two McCain-election sketches... They are rapidly becoming a force to be reckoned...

The condescendingly intolerant and superstitious studio knee-jerk social stigma toward the audience!
(Which we hope to conquer if it holds its own respectably alongside Harry Potter, with all the Twilight competition out of the way...)

...Some people just can't see the larger battle to fight.

Rankin-Bass did the story in 90 minutes, and only left one or two chapters out of the book-- The second movie (because they think we'd be "disappointed" that this one wasn't a trilogy either), Jackson's producers plan to fill with expanding some of the stories from Tolkien's historical "prologue" an...

Aren't there supposed to be 13 dwarves? 13 dwarves; Bilbo is the Lucky Number. :) There's still Bifur and Balin left to cast, among others, but think they've covered those that have actual speaking roles in the plot. (And Gloin will eventually be Gimli's father, so expect some John Rhys-Davies rese...

If they wanted to give a "charity nomination", as you say, again, should have gone with Ponyo. Or if they wanted to go more obscure (and Miyazaki is slowly becoming more well-known among the North American populace), a nomination for Mary and Max would have also been well-deserved. They Shoulda, an...

What the @#%! are you talking about..?! :? Square fingers...That's what I'm talking about. Only cable-series characters have square fingers. (Look, you're the one with the...aw, I don't watch Disney Channel, who the heck is your icon from, anyway?) :wink: I saw the film last week and your review of...

droosan wrote:
.. yep; maybe they based it all-l-l-l-l on Samurai Jack. .

I'm sorry, that's the Genndy-Clone Wars version of Qui-Gon Jinn, and you can't tell me it isn't.

Thought I'd salvage this one out of last year's Oscar thread, since it didn't seem to have its own yet, even with the Blu-ray currently reviewed: I managed to catch TSoK at the L.A. Irish Film Festival last month, and enjoyed it immensely. Its unconventional subject matter (at least for western anim...

A cool new poster for Disney's Tron: Legacy has just been revealed over at Yahoo! Movies. The Disney sequel opens in theaters and IMAX this holiday season. New (final?) Tron Legacy Poster: http://www.impawards.com/2010/tron_legacy_ver11.html Classic 1982 Tron poster: http://www.impawards.com/1982/t...

Ben wrote:A Spidey movie without the Spidey?

...Oh, so, sort of like Spiderman 2, then?

droosan wrote:AFAIK, Pepe Le Pew has never been particularly well-regarded in France.

They don't get the joke about Chuck Jones's "Fantasy French for Foreigners"
("Une skunque-catte de pole-pew!" "Pouf, Josef!--Le gendarme que la fix!")

...Neither, I fear, does the current Warner.

If you want to get technical Xanadu was a remake of 1947's Down to Earth with Rita Hayworth and James Gleason. (Y'know, I've been waiting years for someone to say that-- No, technically , it wasn't: It was a strange musical in which the Muses try to stop an insulting Broadway show rather than inspi...

It was actually written in 1980--by Pauline Kael in the New Yorker. So sad since movies are so much worse nowadays and don't seem to be getting any better. ... Worse than 1979?? :shock: That one was a banner year for bad pre-80's movies, and the first half of 1980 (before Empire, Blues Brothers and...