I'm not sure where all the vilification comes from, unless you're being emotional like I am.

Whoa. I missed the whole convo. But yes, ita. I really am just being emotional. I concur with you on stuff like the Bond remakes. And I agree with erika about the remake option being used, more often than I would like, as a crutch.

I am not, however, the arbiter of what Hollywood should do.

DJ spoke for me about Time Bandits...which sparked my hissy fit. The original WAS kid friendly if your believe that kids don't need the wrapped up, candy floss ending.

Time Bandits along with Watership Down, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory and The Last Unicorn are almost always on our annual list of movies that will fuck you up as a kid (I would currently add Where The Wild Things Are to that list). I'm sure we have some corporate friendly name for that list, but basically they're movies that are much more complex than typical Disney fare.

It's not so much that they fucked us up, but they actually gave us a bit more credit for knowing that fucked up stuff was out there, and we could deal with it.

It's not so much that they fucked us up, but they actually gave us a bit more credit for knowing that fucked up stuff was out there, and we could deal with it.

Sing it.

I don't know if Jessica's DH was the reviewer you read, but he concurs.

Haha! I was going to ask the same thing. I still wish I could have gone to the screening though. I miss having my own opinions on movies...

Well, we went to see the movie. It is entertaining and enjoyable (especially if you don't mind seeing things explode a lot), but I would concur that the ending was bad.

I also am not sure how to interpret what happened to Jake's character at the end. When more of you see it, I'd like to ask a few questions.

Entangled spoiler question: does anyone die?

that's a difficult question to answer. But I would say no.

Huh. I saw a picture that I swear someone drew and they said it was a spoiler for the movie and the guy was bleeding out. Does he recover? Does that just not happen? Why is it difficult? Nature of fairy tales?

Which guy was bleeding out? Jake?

Suffice it to say, your question is complicated, mostly because of tense used and time period.

I don't even know, LeN. Is there a Eugene?

Man, people are really pissed that Serenity beat Blade Runner in an IO9 poll. People really need to take pills that make them chill. Anonymous internet poll on a blog, yo.