surprising
Strangely, I really liked the Bon Temps storylines this week and was pretty much bored by the Sookie/Bill/Eric/werewolf/vampire stuff. I genuinely enjoyed Sam for once, probably because with him and Tommy vs Joe Lee it's him being active and driving his own storyline as opposed to the "lets have him throw…

Too busy noticing the girl from Friday Night Lights and that big guy who was on Lost and like 50 other things I've seen in the past couple of years.

Maybe
Their singing voices are not at all similar, but okay

Yeah Scary Stories…Harold….yeesh. And half the reason those were so scary was the illustrations.

Untouchables
My own version of the "There's something in the closet!" fear came from watching The Untouchables (movie) when I was perhaps too young for it. There's alot of violence in that for a little kid to deal with but the scene that fucked me up for several months after seeing it was when the bodies of two of the…

Huh…ET was the first movie I ever saw and apparently I was obsessed with it. My mom bought me a tiny rubber ET doll and I would not let it out of my sight, held him in my tiny hand all the time. The only thing that did scare me was the scientists who came with their big tunnels and scary music and I was convinced they…

I read The Lottery in 8th grade of course, and I don't remember being at all traumatized by it. I was just sorta "Huh…that explains that then" When we read it in English class I had just come off of seeing "Schindler's List" and "Night and Fog" so my thought process was more or less "Sudden, unexplained normalized…

Whoa, you too?!
When did I start writing for AV club under the alias Claire Zulkey?! Because I had a very similar paralysing fear of the Fire in the Sky trailer. I've never seen the movie either, but for me that fear never translated to a fear of alien abduction. I was just scared of the actual trailer.

This seems kinda different though. Between drug charges, RDJ would be brilliant in random supporting parts and we would all go "Aww, what a shame that he's so messed up because he's so good" Whereas with Mel, these tapes were preceded by him directing several movies that just made us go "Why does he love torture so…

Oh and Paul Bettany is this?
I have to assume you've never seen him in anything or you would have mentioned him, seeing as how he played Michael and he was the one on the poster!

Okay, sorry
I guess I'll be chagrined for being snarky on this yesterday. I still have no desire to see most of the movies he's done.

Why I am I not surprised that trying to put Norton in an ensemble cast didn't have a chance of working out?

Since someone mentioned The Maxx, I have to jump in and say that was the most infuriating "It was all a dream" ending I've ever seen.

the genre snobbery of my father
drives me nuts! The point we constantly clash on is what he calls "monsters with feelings" He's a little better on moral ambiguity within drama or comedy, but if its sci fi or horror or fanatasy and a demon of any kind is experiencing any emotion beyond "I want to kill you because I am…

Yeah Park, from the second trailer I thought that's what this was about as well. Shame, because that is more interesting.

Adrien Brody is really really convincing as like a midly violent 50s con man. I'm not sure that translates to action hero, but who knows.

It seems like Adrien Brody is the only face they're showing in the trailers. Why is that? I know no one in this cast is a bigger name than the title, but its clearly an odd cast so couldn't that prove to be a tiny selling point?

Matthew Fox for lead actor?
It's not that I think he was bad, or that his character wasn't important. But when was it decided that Jack was the main character? Ensemble cast, seriously.

Um, Yee Yee, please go out and partake of some musical theatre before you make generalizations like that. In the meantime, rent Cabaret.

maybe
Well, I was staying away from an Xmen that didn't have Hugh Jackman or Patrick Stewart or Ian McKellen, but Matthew Vaughn might lure me back in. Plus that kid from About a Boy grew up pretty.