Yep. Since I only watched the series on DVD, it was easy enough to skip over the beginning credits (which I always did). Consequently, I don't really remember the opening titles sequence at all, save the opening shot of Caprica City and the first few notes of the theme music.

About five years ago I was listening to Wiretap Scars in the car, and my passenger asked me who it was. I replied that the band was called Sparta. A minute later, I wanted to slap my forehead in shame over missing the perfect opportunity to say, "THIS. IS. SPARTA!!!!"

@avclub-ca4fc44a59d0201cc7d4f760153cb00c:disqus When I first heard the Deftones' cover of "Do You Believe," I went online to find out who did the original. Imagine the mind blowage that ensued upon learning it was The Cardigans.

@avclub-04eb71b2a84b1a60d13abf7f2d60cb5a:disqus Maybe if you're lucky, you can uncover the video where drunken Scott Stapp and Kid Rock receive blowjobs from groupies on a tour bus. Then you won't have to imagine Creed coming.

I get what you're saying, but for some reason, ghosts scare me more than just about anything. As I mentioned earlier, I think the Grudge movies are all uniformly bad, and yet I can't help but be terrified by the ghosts. Seriously, if I so much as think about them while trying to sleep at night, I can guarantee you…

@avclub-39df51c015ce671b473b8cf5a306d217:disqus Them > The Strangers > Inside

Although it would probably get a PG-13 today, it got an R back when it was released. (I think there was a "fuck" or two in the dialog.)

I still hold out hope that the Haunted Mansion movie ends up being one of the several hundred films to which Guillermo Del Toro is attached that actually gets made.

@persia2:disqus  Wasn't it you who said in the thread under the "Book vs. Film" article on The Mist, "I do think 'When you decide to shoot your son, you should probably wait a couple of minutes' is an important lesson for us all, though"?

Ti West also seems to think that having long stretches of nothing happening is the same thing as building suspense.

The strange thing about The Grudge is that I don't think any of the films in the series (including the original theatrical Japanese film) are all that good, but something about ghosts still manages to scare the piss out of me on some primal level.

I've only seen the original, and I remember thinking a) it moved really slowly, and b) the main character freaked out about fairly minor things. (Seriously, seeing her daughter has a backpack she'd previously thrown away causes her to lose her shit? There are plausible explanations for that which don't involve ghosts,…

@avclub-40e90db13ab31c7efd64228034182c2e:disqus The most remarkable thing about that scene in the original version is that I still have no idea how they did it. In the U.S. version, it's very obviously done with CG, but the Japanese filmmakers actually manage to make it look like she's actually coming out of a…

@avclub-14ab3610488873ae27b32947a76e6bd1:disqus SPOILERS for Shutter Island

Ah, V/H/S. The movie that solidified for me once and for all that I just don't like Ti West's stuff.

Ah, V/H/S. The movie that solidified for me once and for all that I just don't like Ti West's stuff.

Ah, V/H/S. The movie that solidified for me once and for all that I just don't like Ti West's stuff.

Reading "…characters are given entirely too generous freeze-frame introductions accompanied by their archetypal identities…" coupled with "[the movie] is never one-10th as clever as it thinks it is and desperately feels the need to be," made me think of Feast. How the fuck did that become a franchise (even a…

It seems just fundamentally impossible to show attractive, likable characters torturing…

@Placeholder:disqus From Taibbi's article: