I’m sure I’ve seen that addressed somewhere by Aykroyd saying something like “ah, you’re thinking of the famous Tunguska event, Ray was talking about the much lesser known one”!

As well as it being competent as horror, can I also throw in a shout out for its equally better-than-it-needed-to-be science fictional aspect? The technobabble and production design successfully makes it feel like there’s some sort of coherent set of scientific theories operating in the background - something that…

Horrible. Tragic. My thoughts are with her family.

I remember seeing a video not too long ago where someone was pointing a gun at Will Smith on set and he immediately took it away and disabled it — and thinking he was maybe overreacting but clearly he was right. A gun is a gun, you never know and there’s precedent.

Brandon Lee during the making of The Crow as well.

seems like prop guns have killed a lot of actors over the years. i remember being a small child and finding out the main character in one of my favorite shows (actor Jon-Erik Hexum of Voyagers!) died goofing around, pretending to shoot himself in the head with a gun loaded with blanks, in a break between takes.

I mean, the first book still made it clear that the savior myth was cynically planted by missionaries to suit their own purposes, and that the “savior” himself knew this when he cynically exploited it to gain support for his mission of vengeance, but sure.

The prototypical Lightspeed Briefs...

I think maybe the mass audience is more ready for Dune after the success of Game of Thrones. The idea in the book (which didn’t really carry over to Lynch’s version where there were clear good and bad people) is that none of the warring noble houses (including the Atreides) are really “good” although some might place…

This movies does not have Sting in a speedo getting a steam bath and is therefore the inferior film adaptation...

Yeah, me liked these books as young monster, but even then me was aware that, while Asimov have fascinating, grand ideas, he not great at writing interesting characters or giving plot emotional stakes. So me glad someone doing loose adaptation of this, just so long as it not I, Robot-level loose.

Once something in this damn system breaks, I don’t think there’s a chance it’s ever getting fixed. For the past few years, Kinja has been falling apart a piece at a time: links in comments stopped working, then like totals disappeared from profile pages, then notifications stopped linking to specific posts, etc., etc.…

Watching D’Arcy Carden in that clip is worth the price of admission.

And she’s the rare famous person who WOULD have to explain who they are because she looks completely different when she’s out of costume/wig/make-up/heels.

I can’t help picturing the conversation...

Tired: turning beloved works of anime into inevitably inferior live action products.

I like Nandor’s reaction to watching The Big Bang Theory: “Very faithful to the slot machine” as if the latter came first.

I was quite surprised by the boxer’s head being punched off.  Jesus Christ!

Word on the street is that his eulogy will be delivered by — you guessed it — Frank Stallone...