Cool story time: in my late teens I briefly dated a guy who made me listen to him practice that final “you could be miiiine!” until he got it.

“Fuck you”

Should have been “chew some scenery decorators”

Census takers go with chianti, but scenery goes with a dry Riesling.

Fun fact about Silence of the Lambs: Anthony Hopkins only had a little over 16 minutes of screen time.

I find this movie pretty much unwatchable today because of Edward Furlong. I just can’t stand to listen to him squeal out Bart Simpsons-esque catchphrases. It’s too bad, because Linda Hamilton’s performance was epic.

T2 is fucking amazing. I was right in the bullseye of the target demographic in 1991: 15-year-old suburban white dude, and I went all-in on every aspect of it. The stunt work and effects (both practical and digital) were unbelievable, and folded into the story so well that your immediate response wasn’t “wow, this…

It’s a movie where Dolph Lundgren endlessly scolds the son of Bruce Lee for not being Asian enough.

Funny point about it being essentially a kids’ movie and perhaps modern kinds not that curious about movies beyond what they’re getting. People have argued a lot about whether movies get away with more these days in their rating blocks, but I would argue that for action-movie intensity (if not necessarily actual…

It had a grander scale, a more ambitious premise, and a small army of stunt professionals and special-effects technicians.

Hell, Marvel’s now gearing up for some Alien and Predator crossovers now that Disney owns Fox.

(I always loved how Schwarzenegger would be willing to play someone like the small-town sheriff of 1986’s Raw Deal, and how the movie would make no attempt to explain how this giant motherfucker with the accent ended up there.)

James Cameron, on the other hand, would go on to make a couple of movies that were even bigger than Terminator 2.

I’ve always thought of this film as just a much dumber retread of the original with a bigger budget (making me perhaps the only person to prefer the third), and it’s worth noting how truly dumb the in-universe that decision to bring Arnold back is. We know T-800s don’t all look alike, so ones that look like the guy…

Of course what also followed were a bunch of weird Terminator comic book crossovers.

One key point missing about Hobgoblins: yes its dumb, and yes its boring, but its also fantastically sleazy in a uniquely immature way. Between the oversexed couple, the phone sex stuff, and the strip club, it all feels like a “dirty” movie written by a horny 13 year old virgin. If it was a just a cheap Gremlins…

I went to a Rifftrax Live simulcast of Starship Troopers (which was PACKED; these things sell!) and nearly died laughing.

The initial paragraph, I believe, was about the things that the RiffTrax guys have been watching with their families on the porch with a portable projector. So not what they are riffing.

Can’t wait for someone to show up in the comments here and tell you Akira wasn’t “pOliTiCaL!”

Word of advice, never watch Akira with a fever of 104, which I did one memorable night in college. I’m pretty sure I mutated into a giant flesh beast that night, but luckily I got better by morning.