It's one of Lynch's favorite techniques, he used it in Eraserhead too. Personally I was less bothered about that than the near-total lack of music.

I did not like it. Perhaps it was the misogyny of the violence, or the feeling that I was being subtly trolled, but it left a bad taste in my mouth. Kudos to Lynch for challenging us as an audience, but if you asked me if I enjoyed it, my answer would have to be no.

Right? The music did absolutely nothing for me. They sounded like that band that comes on at 10:45 at your local bar and everyone ignores. Not a single chill was sent down my spine.

Still with us at age 71, yes.

Blergh, I really didn't like the new Twin Peaks. I mean, I really didn't like it. I had a visceral reaction of not liking it. And I'm speaking as someone who adored it the first time around and has remained obsessed by it ever since.

The weird thing about Fandor is that it was initially promoted as the go-to channel for classic film. And then all of a sudden it pivoted to become a sort of prestige/independent channel.

He liked the razor so much, he allowed the company to pay him to say he liked it!

You're correct about Harlow's ailment - fixed.

I never said that Rudolph Valentino died of syphilis. I said he had the disease at the time of his death. It's a disease you can have for years without symptoms.

Dowd's description of Wonderstruck as 'a lovingly crafted flashback pastiche whose emotional core remains oddly theoretical' exactly reflects my feelings about Hugo. It was such a giant wind-up mechanism of a film that even the emotions felt like they were churned out by clockwork.

Not to mention Orson Welles. Citizen Kane to Transformers: The Movie. Oy, vey.

Come on, we all know Mickey would refer to it as 'makin' whoopie'.

The greatest irony is that in a cast packed with old codgers, it was one of the youngest guys on the show who died unexpectedly.

As Mike pointed out, the show has been going for nearly 60 years, so the statistical likelihood of losing a large proportion of its cast members is pretty high.

'The point at which Phil Hartman's characters are never mentioned again' is one of my many non-arbitrary markers for when I knew The Simpsons would never regain its former greatness.

The Australian actor John Mellion did the voiceover for Victoria Bitter beer advertisements for decades. After his passing in 1989, his family gave the company permission to keep using his voice - digitally altered so it said new things where necessary - and new advertisements kept coming out until the early 2000s.

Yep. And as tragic as it was to lose John Spencer, it resulted in a much more satisfying ending for the show, IMHO.

I love looking out for those!

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