Anyone else think the special effects/battle scenes for the remake are unlikely to top the original?  No more animatronics and, presumably, no more Phil Tippett with his background in go motion animation to make the bugs as lifelike as possible.  

WHAT? NO!

Seriously.  Outside of something like the end of The Village I'm hard pressed to think of a worse answer to this question than JP3's anti-climax.

The end of Jurassic Park 3 is one of your answers to this of all Q&A's?  Seriously?

It happened to me during Phillip Seymour Hoffman's Big Speech towards the end of Mission Impossible 3.  The melting effect looked pretty cool.  I've still never seen the end of the movie.

The 5:15 from Duluth  
Oh my it's just derailed
The toxic waste is spillin'
A conductor's been impaled
A benzine cloud has risen
And the whole town's starting to cough (cough cough, cough cough)
Within a matter of daaaays 
All of our skin will fall off.

So here's the thing about Blankets: it's amazing.

I swear I wanted to like Tree of Life, but I just couldn't.  Great trailer though.

RINGU BOOK SPOILERS I GUESS

I think The Ring is one of the instances where the American version is superior to the original and both film versions are vastly superior to the novel they're based on.

I saw the 80s remake of The Blob when I was about 6 or so.  To this day the scene where the guy tries to feel up the girl in the car only to have her deflate like a balloon and have the monster shoot out of her was the most scared I'd ever been of a movie.  I re-watched it a few years ago and, while it's not a great…

Just got around to listening to this.  Tasha, you seem much, much less happy with the ending of Lost now than you and the rest of the folks on the post-finale podcast did.

Jim Carrey's thought process:  This will make Emma Stone mine.  Mine!

Yeah, I saw her show the first half at this walk/drive-in theater thing in Austin last weekend.  There was an audible moan of disappointment when she had to cut it short to let Chuck Klosterman introduce his showing of the 1933 Invisible Man.

Doesn't expanding MYOF's scope like this make the new Down Is Up feature redundant?  Aw, who am I kidding, I'll read 'em both anyway.

Aw c'mon, it's Noel Murray, not Armond White.

What Battlestar Galactica letdowns?  I thought it ended great at the end of season 4.0, and right before season 4.5 which, thankfully, never happened.   You hear me?  Season 4.5. NEVER. HAPPENED.

They should rename it Secret Successes.

This new feature is pretty ballsy.  But even this piece didn't convince me these films weren't an awful, needless mess.

Huh, I think Klosterman's sports writing is the best stuff he's ever done.  It didn't hit me he could even write so knowledgeably about sports until the Ralph Sampson and football essays in "Dinosaur."  To each their own though.