I half expected that, after the kids drive out of sight of the gas station, Mordecai would take the chaw out of his mouth and report to the people in the base like a normal person. Of course, this was before we find out that his name is Mordecai and that he's a true believer.

@avclub-84f9e7d729107289d35152b4262e2b53:disqus I thought the trowel was the stabby implement that was in his back. How he was able to pull it out and dismember the zombie with it, I'm not sure. (It looked like it was in a really hard-to-reach area.)

It played things far more straight than Cabin and Tucker & Dale, but it was definitely an underseen gem. If I were to compare it to anything, I'd put it in the same category as Splinter.

I've never really cared for DePalma's film, myself. I felt he played the story too much for over-the-top suspense and didn't get to the tragedy at the heart of the book. King's novel actually brought a few tears to my eyes, but DePalma's film just felt like a technical exercise to me, with its big, complicated…

I'm now reminded of Something Awful's Your Band Sucks entry on The Mars Volta where the writer, listening to "Cassandra Gimini" from Frances the Mute, says, "I think I just heard him say the words 'handjob' and 'sarcophagus.' So I'll give him some credit for giving me the mental image of a guy in a pith helmet jerking…

For some strange reason, the movie Dead Girl made me queasy to the point that I almost passed out.

Yes! It's very entertaining! I went in with high expectations and came away pleased.

Y'know, when I heard that there were two different Snow White movies coming out, one of which was directed by Tarsem Singh and doesn't star Kristen Stewart and another that wasn't directed by Tarsem Singh and does star Kristen Stewart, I thought I had my mind made up as to which one I'd rather see. Then I saw their…

SPOILERY!!!

Unfortunately, given that The Hunger Games opens a week from this Friday, I'm guessing it probably won't happen. (Don't get me wrong; I really liked the movie and would love to see Gods of Mars get adapted.)

@avclub-b31df16a88ce00fed951f24b46e08649:disqus Ah, yes! Another great point! Matthew Goode plays Veidt as a villain from frame one, and I'm guessing he was more or less directed to. (And I think giving him the slight German accent was really overthinking the character.) It's really no shock when he's revealed to be…

@avclub-6997a8bd0e1042b70b60c5c879a1780e:disqus I didn't care for Alec Newman very much in the first mini-series (precisely because of the "too old" thing), but I felt he really grew into the role by the time Children of Dune was made. (Either that or he received better direction from Greg Yaitanes than John Harrison.)

I liked Watchmen the first time I saw it, but on subsequent viewings, its flaws became much more apparent. For example, the very opening scene shows that Snyder doesn't really get the source material. In the original work, a point is made of the fact that only Dr. Manhattan possesses superpowers, and yet the fight…

Hmph! While I didn't care for Sci-Fi's first Dune mini-series, I thought Children of Dune was pretty fantastic. I was never a big fan of the books it was based on, so perhaps that's what made me able to like it. I felt it actually got to the emotional core of the story in a way Herbert's own books didn't. Apart from…

Exactly! This didn't really hit me the first time I saw the movie at the age of seven, but when I watched it for a second time at the age of fourteen, I found myself wondering how I could have loved it so much. It boggles my mind that there are adults who still consider it to be a genuinely good movie.

Hmph. He'll always be one of the greatest rock drummers of all time to me, and if anyone had to replace Gabriel, I'm glad it was him.

For me, it's Year One, but Born Again is a close second. Miller's collaborations with Mazzuchelli are far and away the best things he's ever done.

She's no Cristina Scabbia.

I thought that's what Resurrection of Evil was.

Having been a Rhapsody subscriber for a few years, I decided to give Spotify a try. I found myself rather unimpressed. Both services have gaps in their respective libraries, but I find Rhapsody's to be better. Also, Spotify's desktop application isn't as good as Rhapsody's client software. (I even like Rhapsody's…