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No it wouldn't have, because the cast at least generated some sparks. The prequels are filled with bad actors (Jake Lloyd), OK actors giving bad performances (Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman), and good actors giving merely OK performances (almost everyone else). The original trilogy was much livelier and

BLONDIIIIEEEE!

Deserve's got nothin' to do with it.

The Man With Three Different Names and Who Is Possibly Two Different Men Also.

Maybe because he's white. Or maybe because he's a super-duper-star and many of the people criticizing him aren't big hip hop fans.

Downvote away, motherfuckers, you know I'm right. I'm particularly fond of the last third of Ali3n, where we get to see a camera moving really fast down 900 identical red-tinted tunnels until a door closes. Exciting!

Resurrection gets flak because it's just insanely stupid and basically a cartoon. First of all, the entire setup (cloning Ripley from a drop of her blood, which somehow results in a human/slightly-alien Ripley with an alien inside her) is, to put it kindly, ridiculous even by sci fi standards. Which is probably why

Where are you from, Ann?

I will have no idea when asked about this in a week!

Rocky (the original)'s racial subtext is glaring, whether Stallone intended it to be or not. Still a great movie, but that aspect of it is problematic and hard to miss.

Martin is excellent and The Crazies is pretty decent. And Creepshow!

Alien 3 is a boring, red drag. No amount of corporate meddling can wash Fincher's hands of playing a part in that tedium. I'd rather watch Resurrection - it's worse than Alien 3, but at least it's entertainingly insane.

That'd be a shame. /sarcastic Homer

I didn't mean that too terribly literally. He's depressed, he's lurky and sulky, he's definitely non-mom-approved, and he goes all evil after you sleep with him. Obviously Spike is a more traditional bad boy. If you think about it, Logan splits the difference between those two - he starts off very Spike and quickly

I could easily do that every year if my wife would let me. What a perfect Halloween eve. Instead, we're giving both of those a rest this year and instead watching a wall of 80s shlock movies: Basket Case, The Stepfather, and It's Alive.

I found House of the Devil to be so very overrated. I wanted to love it because it's an homage to about half a dozen of my very favorite horror films - Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, and so forth. And it's soaking in atmosphere, they completely nailed that part. But the plot! Who wrote that script? The setup is

The Descent! Love Slither as well.

They're not dicks for no reason, and it's intentionally neither real nor fair. Veronica Mars is a neo-noir. Its worldview is essentially ugly and cynical, and the people that populate its universe are predominantly selfish, mean, petty, greedy, and amoral. Which is why our hero is damaged to the core and

Piz: the Riley of Veronica Mars.

I feel pretty confident that mystery will be a big part of the movie, what with Logan being arrested for murder that he almost certainly didn't commit.