I still haven't seen a better filmed depiction of medieval warfare, even if the budget didn't really allow for proper costuming (Hal looks like he's wearing a really thick sweater instead of armor). I would love it if Kenneth Branagh goes back and films the "prequels" of Richard II and Henry IV. If he can handle…

"unlike Othello, it boasts a streamlined narrative that’s easy to follow" I'm a little confused by that remark. I always thought Othellos was one of the easiest Shakespeare plays to follow. It has, what, maybe five characters of note? The plot is basically one character making another character jealous of his…

There was a whole slew of Shakespeare adaptations in the 1990s and early 2000s, but it seems the trend has now died out. I'm not sure if any of the directors qualify as "great", but many of them were at least "very good".

Even the weather! If I remember correctly, much of the plot takes place in the cold and/or rain. Quite a difference from the usual hot sun of most westerns.

Agreed, Philadelphia was a scary, filthy city in the 70s and 80s. I didn't get Eraserhead at all until I learned that it was heavily influenced by Lynch's experience living there at the time. The city got a little better in the 90s, though, at least the downtown area. I'm not sure what kind of shape it's in today.

Of all the things to remember about this TV show, why do Crockett's white dress loafers stand out so prominently in my mind? And I'm not even a shoe person, other than wearing them for pratical reasons.

Flash-back to pre-LOTR. I and virtually everyone I knew who saw this film had the same reaction- we wanted to visit New Zealand. Even in this disturbing tale, the country still looked brilliant. But when you told people "I want to travel to New Zealand", you usually got a polite but non-understanding "Oh, that's…

"Flexible reality"

Let's see what her contract actually stipulated.

I'm going to guess that whatever contract she signed probably contained some legal vagueries that are open to interpretation.

That and the joke about Apple Computers…

Was Pulp Fiction our generation's Woodstock? One of those things that was huge at the time and you really can't understand unless you were there.

Compared to some of his later films, the violence isn't even particularly graphic. Even when Marvin gets his head blown off, you only see the splatter for about a half a second.

And if I remember, he was a security guard, not a cop.

True, most of them weren't filmed cinematically like today. But the cinematography was far from The Stand's only weakness.

If I recall, he was also one of Flag's henchman in Vegas. I didn't realize he was so tall until seeing that scene.

I did learn something from this series… Stephen King is actually a rather tall man.

Am I the only one here who's a little baffled by all the passionate attachment to some vaguely remembered, marginally different versions of films that were released over 30 years ago?

Good notice. Actually, one of the side-effects of L-dopa treatment (if you will recall, the drug they used in the movie that "awakened" the patients) can be manic-type behavior. It would be sad, in a way, but imagine a Robin Williams comic routine on L-Dopa.

Only if you consider mid-60s to be "outliving" your mind, because that's about the mean age when Parkinsons and Alzheimers start to manifest. And these diseases aren't the results of normal aging, they're specifc pathologies that not everyone will experience, even if everyone lived until age 100.