Fair enough. But why did you expect me to react to her like she was a household name?

No, a gay R2-D2!

*ka-CHING*

Indeed… although I still utterly despise the shrieky Una O'Connor; haven't the foggiest as to why James Whale kept casting her…

What's your favorite parts of the film, yourself? For me, it's the little touches, like the dissolve of the dangling leg lingering on as Jekyll and Lanyon walk down the lane, being a literal…

Who the fuck is Kerry Bishe? :-/

No, the ones who do fall to their deaths are declared the winners. It's like pankraeteon in ancient Greece.

March's performance really is amazing, isn't it? I think everyone in the picture is great.

…well, maybe not everyone; the older actors seem a bit stiff, but the guy playing Poole is gold. Love that guy. :-)

Didn't Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster win, as well?


And you're right about it getting in your head; Miriam Hopkins's performance still gives me chills just thinking about it…


"Champagne Ivy is me na-a-ame… Champagne I-I-Ivy is me na-a-a-ame…"

Quentin Tarantino is creaming in his Wheaties at the thought.

I liked it, as well. Certainly better than the original Lon Chaney picture, which completely wasted Bela Lugosi and cast an American as the son of a goddamn British lord. At least the Del Toro version tried to explain that, a little bit…

Fair enough. By the way, the film which your avatar comes from is still my favorite depiction of Jekyll and Hyde, and its pre-Code nature goes a long way to providing the power to back its Hyde. Mamoulian is underappreciated.

Why they didn't just give it to Karl Freund and wait until Whale had calmed down to make him do Son of Frankenstein properly will forever be a mystery to me.

But Tony Curran is a lot of fun, though.

Fo' sho'. Next you say I ain't never met Dr. Martin Luther the King, beee-itch.

I don't ain't never lie, ever.

Wasn't he shaved, at the time? Or did he have his Obi-Wan chops?

…you're referring to Dantooine, right?

I know I ain't lying; that's why I said it.

Only if Gladys Knight is involved.

Waters? What waters? We are in the desert!

He's Irish.