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Bettie Rage
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Close your eyes, go to sleep
Be absorbed by the collective
Fade away, lose your soul
Be replaced by a drone
Let the evil super-consciousness
Swallow you whole

It's funny how if you describe some plot elements, like "Jeff Goldblum is rivals with pod person/feel good guru Leonard Nimoy" it should sound ridiculous or campy, but in context it absolutely isn't, that's how strong the film is.

The "surprisingly resonant love story" is one aspect of this movie that stuck with me. Most romance subplots in thrillers and horror films are completely perfunctory, but here you're really rooting for Adams and Sutherland to make it out together, and the ending is completely crushing. What a grim, unrelenting, great

"Why won't she be mine?…I wish I was more attractive like Dagless."

"You had me until Hitler"

"Who were they gonna infect at that point?"

I kept waiting for the old-timey Vaudeville hook to pull Marilyn Manson off screen.

Talking Dead brought up possible consequences for Carol's actions (trial, execution, banishment, etc.) but I don't know how they could prosecute her without being hugely hypocritical. There's the recurring questions of "How many people have you killed and why?" and killing has been seen as justifiable if it's to

"Remember me, Eddie? When I killed your brother? I talked—just—like—THIIIIIS!"

My high school friends and I had the great idea to watch The Exorcist while we were sitting through a hurricane. We rewound a scene to see the subliminal shots of Pazuzu's face—"What the hell was that?"—and then the power went out.

"It is happening again. It is happening again."

go back to the cocoon, Henchman #21.

Michonne's likely lost a child as well. (as they all but announced with flashing neon signs)

Glen and Maggie rode horses in season 2, but that was The Farm Season, so I don't blame anyone for forgetting it.

Coughing into the water they use to wash themselves ain't good either.

And he coughed into the water supply. Oops.

Carol is hopefully going to be the secret MVP of the season; the story time/knife fight scene was a great reveal. And I won't get sick of her chemistry with Darryl anytime soon.

The last ten minutes of Requiem for a Dream single-handedly destroyed all hope and love in the universe.

"Mel Gibson, who’s apparently too hot for The Hangover Part III but just weird enough to play to type here as a religious zealot with dreams of genocide and a cult following."

Also Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda in Spirits of the Dead, where Jane is, er, in love with the character Peter's playing. (And it was directed by her then-husband Roger Vadim, so it was a true family affair.)