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I'm creating this thread for any random movie reviews and opinions, and I'm quite surprised one doesn't already exist.

So I've recently started rewatching all the films from my early childhood (which are still on VHS!), and I must say I didn't catch half of what went on in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame when I watched that in 1997 at the age of 5.

I am truly surprised that Disney ever allowed this movie to be made, now that I have seen it with an adult's eyes. This is really some dark stuff, particularly as I now realise that Follo, the villain, wasn't just a murderer as I saw him to be as a five-year old, he was also a sexual predator and genocidal psychopath. He totally expressed his desire to rape and control Esmeralda, the main female character, and if he couldn't get his way, he would burn Paris to the ground to find her (quite literally). I wasn't prepared for that. I was genuinely horrified.

Also, in the opening scene of the movie, Frollo mercilessly rides down Quasimodo's mother, killing her, and is about to drown the baby Quasimodo when a priest instills the fear of God in the man to make him stop, not out of his own conscience, but simply because he doesn't want to go to hell, which fully summarises what's wrong with too many religious folks, in my opinion.

I recommend this movie to anyone who wants to see a Disney movie with actual weight. It is by no means perfect, but for ambition alone, this has won my deepest respect.

I just saw the NWA movie and honestly that shit was so fucking good, oh my god... I cried like three times during it, oh my god... It was great.

This may come as a surprise but my favourite movie is Blade Runner. If you've never seen it before, I highly recommend it, its the single greatest movie ever, at least in my opinion.

Incidentally, @Laurentus, was the name of the topic a reference to Siskel and Ebert? If so, how highly highly humorous :]

I think the best movie I've seen this year (so far) has been Inside Out. For a kids' movie it dealth with a very serious topic ... it was practically a film about depression.

Yes, Roger Ebert and Siskel are two of my favourite critics, although Ebert was really a better writer than reviewer. Siskel was generally more objective, in my opinion.

And no, that was actually coincidental, lol. It was probably in my unconscious.

I really don't like Blade Runner. I can appreciate it from an intellectual perspective, but good god, that thing was slow.

And I still need to see Inside Out. I've heard good things. It just takes me awhile to get myself to watch a Pixar film.

I only saw a couple of scenes from Blade Runner, it's possible that it just hasn't aged well.

Well, I think it aged moderately well. Sure, the CGI is.. old, but I still think that if Star Wars holds up than so does Blade Runner. I get that it is a bit slow, but if you can look past that... damn, it is a beautiful movie.

Meh, I'm not really a die-hard Star Wars fan either. The Empire Strikes Back was really good, but the only reason I watch the others is because of the occasional light saber fight. I like Blade Runner more than all the Star Wars movies apart from Empire.

It really wasn't so much the age that bothered me with Blade Runner, the movie simply didn't work for me.

2001 is really old, and yet I love it.

Meh, I'm not really a die-hard Star Wars fan either. The Empire Strikes Back was really good, but the only reason I watch the others is because of the occasional light saber fight. I like Blade Runner more than all the Star Wars movies apart from Empire.

It really wasn't so much the age that bothered me with Blade Runner, the movie simply didn't work for me.

2001 is really old, and yet I love it.

Yeah, well, thats a real shame. Out of curiosity, does anyone like watching good-bad movies for the fun of it?