Rarely does anyone bring up Buster Keaton when discussing Chaplin films, and yet I have yet to read anything regarding Keaton where Chaplin's name doesn't come up for contrast. Even long after death, the guy will never catch a break.

Go see it. You'll find out there is a lot. Like a lot a lot.

Horror is a kid's game.

There is CGI.

Absolutely, @avclub-6aa0ab5b874b35bb21f89136ee1e8175:disqus . The death right before the opening credits is full-on CGI. There's a good amount of practical effects, but there's a CGI Deadite on fire, a steam burn that's computer effect and a single drop of blood that was not actual liquid.

Yeah, I was easily the oldest one there and there was a good chance the youngsters in the audience had no idea it was even a remake. But they reacted in all the right places, so that was fun.

I like the seams in the effects, @avclub-067dd151d15782b75bab063a6f3d5c4e:disqus . You can see the craftsmanship. Why would you want to be able to discern less of a movie? That doesn't make sense to me.

Subtract all the grades. Would you expect a musical to win you over if you hated that genre?

There's some humor. Although the audience I saw it with didn't think slipping on discarded flesh was funny.

There's plenty of CGI. Believe me.

And also the gore.

There are plenty of in-camera effects, but even before the opening credits there's an all-CGI death.

This movie was a patchwork of the first two Raimi films. So much so that it was a game of spot the reference. There's some decent gore scenes made to make the audience squirm and my audience reacted in kind. But for my money, Drag Me to Hell did it better.

This is a touching tribute.

Ugh. I think I've officially had enough of Patton Oswalt.

This really is super brilliant!

Dame Sir?

I don't know much about music, but I know a bit about criticism in general. And the difference between "neither fish nor fowl" and "crossover" is subjective at best. I like Freddie Mercury's solo album. It's fun and I think it can be many things at once without getting that "can't decide what it wants to be" tag…

Oh good. As long as the white Tony Randall is knowingly playing a character who is chinking it up so that he hides the magic powers that all Asians have, then I have nothing to complain about.

The "pandering to" is obvious, but what you call "subverting", I call cashing in on the mysticism stereotype of Asians. He's the Chinese version of a Magic Negro and it doesn't help.