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It relates to 1939 more than it does 2017. Trump is running an authoritarian administration, no doubt about it, but we're not quite at the stage yet where such a plot points to USA 2017. Maybe if the film went deeper, but as it is there's not much there that directly relates to what Trump is doing today. Also, everything you just described was a part of the original trilogy too. Civil War & Zootopia had more to say about our current political climate than Rogue One. And I meant Star Trek in general. I thought that was obvious...

I liked the movie, but these "relevant themes" people are talking about are delivered in broad strokes to the point of not really resembling anything happening in the real world. That's what Star Wars always does. It's all archetypes and broad strokes. The opposite of Star Trek.

What is it with January and the horror genre? I think there might be more horror successes in January than in October.

Right? That article blew me away.

I won't defend Lady in the Water, but After Earth wasn't terrible, The Village is severely underrated, and get a load of this take on The Happening: http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/26050/looking-back-at-m-night-shyamalans-the-happening

C'mon, The Visit is aight. It's more a comedy/coming-of-age drama than a true blue horror flick.

Bummer. It's not really a bad movie at all.

It's certainly one of the shortest turn-arounds I've seen. Shorter than Deepwater Horizon or the one-two punch of United 93 and World Trade Center. Hollywood doesn't seem to realize that time makes a big difference. Think the difference between all of those Iraq/terrorism flops five years after 9/11 and then Zero Dark Thirty/Lone Survivor/American Sniper all of which were released more than a decade later.

Scorsese didn't care about awards or box office this time around it seems.

It's also not enticing films buffs like myself because it looks like yet another treatise on heroism instead of a complex look at terrorism. I decided not to see it as soon as I saw that clip where the police interrogator tells the woman "you ain't got shit, sweetheart." Talk about simplistic good v evil bullshit.

Wow. So you're avowedly anti-intellectual? Must be a Trump supporter.

There are some movies with which I judge people based on their reactions to them. La La Land is one of them. If you hate it you're a soulless tool. Indifference? Fine, sure. But hate it? Go to hell.

Kinda weird that they're expanding on Sunday instead of Friday.

I agree. My girlfriend is an insane Potter fan and even she's waiting till later today to watch it. There's no rush factor for even the most ardent of fans.

Are you a troll? You sound like a troll.

The last 15 minutes are the best part. Turns a cerebral scifi film into an emotional experience. Brilliant stuff. I feel like such a cynical takeaway could only occur in 2016.

People are much harder on women for being rude.

I can't bother to read through these other pages, so...how on earth can you say DS is frontloaded when it's not even Saturday yet?

Only watched international trailer which was great.

Apparently he steals Nocturnal Animals.

Haven't seen anything in October. What a crappy month.

That 100 on Metacritic is no more. I think it's official: any review from Slant Magazine is the new Armond White.

Snowden released the covert info because we weren't just spying on those like China and Russia, we were spying on Germany, Japan, etc. Our fucking ALLIES. That's too far, in my opinion.

You might be wrong about that.

Looks good, although I feel Tyldum holding the movie back. He's a good, not great filmmaker.