Fears: I have to care about this antiques dealer now.

It's confusing because *some* Nazis like Borman were anti-Christian, but there is no way in hell the one Nazi who mattered (Hitler) was. The whole point of "Mein Kampf" was that the Jews were bad because they murdered Christ — something an actual anti-Christian wouldn't care about.

Absolutely. I remembering getting the original "Star Wars Storybook" from Scholastic (filling out those order forms in class) in 1978. Kids today don't get how awesome the storybooks were because they are used to seeing a movie anytime they want. But before home video, those storybooks were basically the closest thing…

What's sadder is knowing somebody whose dad was in the astronaut program but never made it to space (most don't).

A bit tough on the small businessmen who "just make eyes" and genetic designers who make the mistake of letting on that they know Eldon Tyrell personally, though.

Except you don't rid of an STD by passing it on. If it was an analogy for STDs, the plot would be how to score spiritual antibiotics to get rid of ghost gonorrhea. If it is a an analogy for anything, it would be abuse in the sense than most abusers were abused themselves.

You see, I *like* "cultural weirdness" in films, often more than the actual plot of the films. I liked how Let The Right One In gave an insight into lower-middle class Swedish life, just like how I like the various insights J-horror originals like Ringu gave into Japanese life.

I thought it made its point quite well — cults are founded by broken people and attract other broken people.

The French Revolution was the first ideologic revolution, which meant it went badly, though. Just like the Soviet revolution (which saw itself as the successor to the French, not American, revolution) it soon devoured itself and was replaced by a strongman leader (Napoleon or Stalin).

But so much an advertisement for Macy's. Maybe that was heartwarming for people from NYC, but for people from other places Macy's was just the cancer that ate our local department stores (RIP Marshall Fields and Hechts, two more interesting department stores with their own flavor in cities I lived in)

I bet you are one of those people who hate "Groundhog Day" too.

I wonder how realistic that would be in the 1980s though. Dupont Circle
*now* is a trendy area that would be a prime location for a business. But in the 1980s it was a rather sketchy area which was undergoing gentrification by DC's gay community.

The thing is, no matter what story they came up with would be a letdown. It is such a great gag because it isn't explained what the horror was.

I always found Borders to be way more intellectual than Barnes and Noble though. For example, their science section actually had professional level books rarely seen outside a university bookstore (like Pauling's "Nature of the Chemical Bond") rather than just dumbed down pop science stuff. And they had books in…

Mimic is really the only horror movie that actually scared me rather than just disgust me. It helps that I'm a subway rider and the movie captures the paranoia of being in a station late at night and wondering if the one guy who is acting somewhat strangely is a mugger or a murderer or something. Granted, "is a man…

In terms of chains, I miss Borders far more than Tower

But the US were supposedly the villain in Vietnam, which was basically the same thing except we won in Korea. South Korea in the 1950s was a corrupt police state, much like South Vietnam was.

The point of Euchre is that you play it in a tavern, after two or three drinks, plus more during the playing. You don't want bridge-level strategy.

'Dictator' is only a negative title if you value (or claim to value) democracy. I doubt that Hitler disagreed that he was a dictator.

See also Chaplin's "The Great Dictator". And that was even before the full nature of Nazism was known.