That gerbil is laughing from gerbil heaven, as Richard Gere gets older, and more and more, he is remembered just for the gerbil story

My window of utter insufferability predated the internet which is a thing for which I will be forever grateful.

Sounds like we might have been spared the “defrosting the ice queen” trope. The Addams Family can change from project to project, but the important thing is to make sure whatever characterization they’re given is relatively unmalleable. A Wednesday who begins expressing herself like Enid, no matter how close they get,…

That was the joke of the original Charles Addams cartoons in the 50s - taking the routines and structure of a typical midcentury family but building the look and dialog around horror-movie tropes. I don’t really remember the original TV show, but the 90s movies took things a step further by suggesting that the family…

Each are great casting for their roles in isolation, guessing they didn’t screen test them together.

I agree it is a crying shame Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton never got a  nomination for Re-Animator, From Beyond, or Castle Freaks. 

The Rick Wakeman score def pushes The Burning into any top 5.

Part 6 DEFINITELY before the remake. Jesus, this list. I didn’t even notice it WAS the remake, I just skimmed past it.

Yeah ‘Men in Tights’ is just ok compared to Spaceballs or Blazing Saddles.

Is the Nike joke really any different than the Perri-air joke in Spaceballs?

+1 coke mound

The scaled-down (read: cheap-looking) version for the series operates similarly: insert cast member or guest star in historical event, then parody TV show or internet phenomenon

Yeah, the Kelvin timeline is bad, and no longer even necessary.

Yeah, I love Mel Brooks but I haven’t enjoyed any of his movies since Spaceballs (I realize Men in Tights has its fans, but it was just eye-roll city for me on that one). And the trailer for this show didn’t exactly inspire much confidence. You’re supposed to put some of your best jokes in the trailer, and if those…

I understand this is the worst kind of heresy but: Batman and Robin is not a bad movie. Like, I hated it the first time I saw it because I went into it wanting more Tim Burton grimdarkness or more of the vaguely cyberpunkiness of Batman Forever. Instead we got a lavish, impossibly high-budget tribute to the Adam West…

If they were gonna go with a rassler, just make Mercedes’ character more central. NJPW can work around her.

I remember how crazy people thought the four year wait between BttF and BttF 2 was.

To be sure, after TMP (which went waaaaaay over budget), the Trek films were basically B movies with mid-level budgets elevated by ILM going above and beyond. Lots of reuse of footage and sets taking place. 

You’re not wrong- Bond Movies in particular rolled out without very much long-range planning (even pivoting from FYEOto the effects-laden Monraker within months of Star Wars opening).

You would. It’s too insane a concept NOT to watch.