Yes! I like your ideas, sir/madam. I don't count myself among the faithful these days, but I used to, and Jesus of Nazareth is still a very moving miniseries for me. Robert Powell might be a white-as-it-gets British fellow, but his Jesus radiated power and potency. His never-blinking performance is actually a little…

I'm jumping to conclusions, but I'll bet most Jesus movies are preferable to this. I got precisely one episode into The Bible before rage quitting, but that one episode was a bland, cheap-looking, dramatically limp model of non-effort. It had ninja angels, though! Gotta appeal to the kids!

Yeah, that was about my assessment. I guess it did provoke some extraordinary reaction from me in that the torture of that poor girl made me feel sick, but seriously, what a misfire on all levels. It was never especially scary, the end-of-the-movie reveal is more silly and stupid than terrifying, and the acting … oof…

I'll have to see if I can track that one down. Thanks!

Truly, Spartacus stood bold to its purpose and remains without equal. The only way this movie can hope to match it is if the climactic scene involves the sky splitting open and Jupiter dangling his cock from the heavens (perhaps used by Jon Snow and his girlfriend to climb to safety in a last ditch rescue effort?)

So for a director as prolific as Miike, what do people here consider to be his must-see movies? I've only seen a handful of them so far.

It's interesting to compare him to another widely-hated character like Joffrey. To me, he's a little like Joffrey grown to his mid-20s, having lost a bit of his boyish enthusiasm for carnage but none of his innate sadism.
His cold, perfunctory nature (especially in that archery scene) is quite horrific, but at the…

Speaking of, can anyone confirm that the Devil Fish electrician (you are SUCH an electrician) truly hung one of his boys out during the shot the show censored?

I JUST watched the second Tomb Raider movie on Netflix. When your movie's first big action scene involves your heroine punching a shark in the face, you really have nowhere to go but downhill.

In a truly great episode, this is the part that always makes me laugh the hardest.

The bit where he snags the beer with his toes is really a moment of pure, you-are-alone-in-the-universe horror that Lovecraft never matched.

Why would someone do that with Mitchell, @PugsMalone:disqus!?

The thing that initially caught me off guard was the state trooper shooting. I saw the unedited version on the sly when my parents still kept tabs on what I watched. So that little geyser of blood really challenged what I thought I knew about getting shot in the head in the movies.

Yeah, but in a general sort of way. I mean, I guess he WAS uncircumcised.

Fargo. I remember watching the TV-ized version when I was a kid and recalled the movie as a funny take on my native Minnesota complete with exaggerated accents. It wasn't until much later I realized how much swearing, violence and Buscemi-on-prostitute fornication it contained.

Between this and that Hercules movie, it seems filmmakers are intent on filling the Abs and Gladiators void left by the departure of Spartacus. Thanks for the thought, guys, but it's really not helping.

Part of my penance for mocking the show early in its run is to jump into every Spartacus thread I see (the only reason my friends and I started watching it was because we thought it looked like a horrible, hilarious 300 rip-off. How wrong we were — 300 doesn't have shit on Spartacus).

I'm getting the feeling now it was more a reference to the art and environment design than anything about the story or characters.

Oh my god, wasn't Tom Baker as Puddleglum the best!? At the very least, they can improve on the snake transformation scene, which is downright hilarious in the TV miniseries.

It appears we're getting The Silver Chair, at least. Which actually makes me happy, because that one is my favorite.