I prefer the 30s version, only because the bad girl is so much more hateable. But both are great.

Where do you get that he's gay in the original? Why would a gay man watch a woman undress? Repressed as hell, sure, but he didn't come across as gay to me.

The 1932 version of The Maltese Falcon is much more clear on the nature of the relationship between The Fat Man and his young henchman than the Bogart version is. To compensate they decided to use the term "gunsel" to describe the kid, which relates back to a Yiddish term for homosexual, or some such.

Good call on Beach Baby, right up there with I Get Around and Summer Wind on the "It's not officially summer until you've heard it at least once" list

Housekeeping that won't bother me until checkout time. I once stayed in a hotel where the staff went around knocking on every door at 8 AM, despite the 10 AM checkout. If you need those extra 2 hours to get to every room, you need more staff.

Audiobook of Eddie Fisher's autobiography Been There, Done That, read by ~80 year old Fisher himself. I needed something that wouldn't be too interesting, for listening at work. It's a pack of lies, I'm guessing, but I find it amusing when the old man gets audibly excited when describing sex.

Primanti's!

It's meant to be seen with an audience. It's full of applause lines and "hell yeah" moments. I can totally understand how it would play as cloying if you were watching it in your living room, but watching it opening night with a theater full of college kids is still the most fun I've ever had at the movies

I read a big chunk of a bio a few years ago, my only takeaways were a) he had a strange relationship with his mom b) he placed little value in (other) human lives and c) he wrote a LOT.

My pet remake is Soylent Green, for similar reasons; still seems plausible, and the original hasn't held up well, except for Edward G. I think you could put a real horror spin on it too.

My brother called home from college to talk to my folks, and afterwards my mom said "your brother saw a movie he said you'll really like". I was 11.
What that memory really underscores is that it really wasn't on any kid's radar at first. Even when it first started to "break", and kids my age were talking about it, few…

I know right? And every morning show does it. And worse, it inevitably leads to a lot of what Patton Oswalt calls "cleaned up filth". There is nothing creepier than cleaned up filth.

Jonah Hill and Michael Cera will be added as two bumbling adventurers who meet the monsters.

Wasn't Van Helsing supposed to be the kick-off?

He seems to have put on quite a bit of weight in the last 20 years or so, meaning after 50. That can't be good for his heart, even if he does keep it in a phylactery.

The cold open and credits/song are genius. Together they do a terrific job of letting you know "this is a true re-boot".
You Know My Name is my favorite Bond theme. RIP.

Admittedly it wasn't really a character, but I thought the American Ninja Warrior bit was funny.

FINISH HER!!

My job would be a lot easier if we you'd all agree to go by numbers, tattooed as UPC codes on your foreheads. Failing that, how about Lastname_Firstname?

Hey now, no one's calling for a revolution here. Let's all take a breath.