Agreed, that final shot in Blair Witch is one of the scariest things I've ever seen in a movie. I think it's the delayed reaction that does it: at first you don't get why he's just standing there, then you remember that creepy story one of the locals told them at the beginning of the movie about the kids, then you…

Yes, the blood test scene. The defribillator scene is freaky because it comes out of nowhere, but the blood testing is just so much build up, you know something horrible is coming, but when it happens you're STILL freaked out. And yeah, the form the Thing takes in that scene is pure nightmare fuel as far as I'm…

The Keanu Reeves comparison is an apt one as far as acting ability goes, though I like Reeves better simply because he doesn't project the squinty smugness that Gere does. The only thing I've liked Gere in is Chicago, mostly because his part plays right into his strengths.

"You can't claim us! We live here!"
"Do you have a FLAG?"

Is "You have a fertile and interrogative mind my friend" going to be the new "when you someone eat it"? Let's make this happen, people.

In the Mouth of Madness isn't highly regarded because there's absolutely no internal logic to it whatsoever—it's just Carpenter throwing a bunch of weird/disturbing imagery onscreen and seeing what sticks. It's hard to get scared by something if there's no sense of what's at stake. I mostly just felt disoriented the…

@avclub-c6447300d99fdbf4f3f7966295b8b5be:disqus : "It's possible to enjoy something and recognize its flaws. That's how we have criticism."

Call it out every time it happens? In the world of video games? You must spend a lot of your time being outraged, then.

What's that you say? A videogame based on a comic book might be kind of sexist? *monocle shatters*

I'm not terribly well-versed in Batman lore, but isn't Bruce Wayne/Batman a little on the pathological side because of the fact that he was never able to personally hunt down and punish the guy who killed his parents? I thought that was one way they justified the ridiculous gadgets/costume/behavior: Batman's…

Yeah, not seeing it w/r/t Hellboy 2. It has some memorable scenes (the nature monster, the angel of death), but something like a quarter of it is devoted to Hellboy's stupid relationship drama. I want to see Hellboy punching monsters in the face, not learning to be a man Apatow-style.

THANK YOU. That's what I've been saying for years now. Everyone says that the casting in that movie sinks it, but Coppola knew what he was doing. The point is to make all the men in the film look like impotent, ineffectual, silly morons next to Dracula. In Coppola's version, Dracula is the hero, not the humans.

Have you seen Redbelt? Because he's amazing in that. I think Tim Allen is actually a very talented actor. He just seems to have realized that there's more money to be made by making silly pap. And Galaxy Quest is good, but I don't think that anybody at first expected it to be as good as it turned out to be.

She's okay in a small role in Into the Wild. That was the first movie I saw her in, and she made me sit up and take notice. She was basically Christina Ricci for a new generation. I'm pretty sure the Twilight movies have ruined her by now though.

He's amazing in "Adaptation," and gloriously hammy in most everything else. I can't hate him, even if I never bother to see any of his movies anymore.

Same here with "Face/Off." Man that movie is insane, and Travolta is clearly having the time of his life playing the over-the-top villain. I'll always remember the part near the end where basically every character in the movie is in a church having a Mexican stand-off, and then Travolta laughs crazily and goes, "Whee!…

"Many [men] have no idea what vanity is."

You know, as much as I hate Ron Moore's BSG (I haven't seen the original series), it's got too many iconic elements for something like this to work so soon after it ended. Edward James Olmos as Adama, the whole concept of skinjobs and the potential intrigue and paranoia surrounding it … a remake of the original series…

Now that you mention, Christian Bale's run on the Batman films would prepare him REALLY well to do a good Edward James Olmos impersonation.

I was holding out hope that there was a better explanation for Sharon/Boomer's pregnancy superpower other than "she was in LUUURRRRVE!" which is why I was able to overlook it. Once it became obvious in season 3 that they were just going to sweep that nonsense under the rug and concentrate on aforementioned religious…