Reminds me of Patton Oswalt’s priceless takedown of prequels. “Hey, you like ice cream? Well here’s a bag of rock salt! You like Angelina Jolie? Here’s Jon Voight’s nutsack.”

Crispin and the kid that played his younger brother that goes off the deep end.

Yes! He may come across as a bit of a greenhorn in it, but what a movie. He commits himself to the hilt in it. He’s just overshadowed by a weirdly possessed Crispin Glover, that’s all.

Johnny Mnemonic is a fun movie.

I had the surreal experience of working directly on an IT project for one of Keanu’s side-businesses, which he ended up getting directly involved with.

Truly, the finest film filmed on the Argonne National Labs campus!

This was better than the first two eps, though I still can’t help but shake the feeling that the very premise of Larry being blackmailed so Maria Sofia can be on his show makes no sense. Seems out of character for Larry to roll over to her father like that and not fight it or try to get out of it somehow. It’s the…

> They told me not to open up a mattress shop in Temecula. They said it’s all credit card junkies and Supercross.

His episode of the Twilight Zone, alongside a young Leonard Nimoy, was particularly noteworthy, as a battle-hungry young officer forced to observe the war from the other side.  Rod Serling, the episode’s writer, had served as a paratrooper in the Pacific during WW2.

Or date it’s much younger alien daughter?

It’s because they can jump higher on the moon. It makes them more advanced.

Patrick Wilson: Oatmeal human is the perfect description.

Mistake #1 was having the Post and Fox News in your feed.

The Memes must flow. 

Yeah, but no creepy-looking giant crawfish-like Navigators in Spice-filled tanks, or the Baron having pustules all over his face, or a poor skinned cat....

I’m crushing your head! I’m crushing your head!

There’s also that shot where Baron Harkonnen from far away looks at Paul through the gap between his index finger and thumb and maniacally says, “I’m squishing you...I’m squishing you...” Stunning.

100% agree. This movie looks like detestable garbage and I have no interest in it, but “who asked for this?” is a shallow and unilluminating question, usually because anyone asking it has no way to answer it. If we really knew the motivations (financial, cultural, otherwise) of the producers, we wouldn’t have to…

“Who asked for this?” is never a valid critique. Art doesn’t need to be necessary or important, and there’s no shortage of good stuff that was initially regarded with scepticism or indifference (including genre-leaping spinoffs).