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Sincere Sensei
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Pop protect. Protect other people.

I caught about five minutes of the TV movie when I was THREE years old. The scene where the dead kid floats up to the window. That stayed with me for well over a decade.

C ME DANCE
Mr. Heisler, your answer reminds me of a scene in C Me Dance. The lead chick at one point says that she watched some scary movie even though her father told her not to. Ever since, she's been terrified of men in black trenchcoats. C Me Dance is spectacularly awful, by the way.

Clarke also directed THE NIGHT ANDY CAME BACK (aka Deathdream) which is also awesome.

I finally finished this thing
It took me a while because I was mostly bored with it and dreaded picking it up for the last week. I love horror stories. I have not grown out of my horror period, but I like my horror to be suspenseful and creepy, and this was mostly information-heavy and filled with too many peripheral

I mostly liked House of Leaves. I loved the IDEA of the footnotes, but the stories within the footnotes were pretty dull. I totally dug the gimmick though.

Out of order
I like the out of order approach just because characters would pop up when I didn't expect them to.

Black Christmas
I like Black Christmas more than Halloween. Those eerie screams and ramblings and noises over the phone are pretty damn creepy.

Thank you for explaining the title screens
I could not figure out what those had to do with anything.

Arrested Development
What about Thomas Jane? Pretending to be a homeless guy as research for a part. You might as well have thrown him in there, too.

The Ending
I loved the final shot of the episode. With Betty watching Don accept this big honor, taking his bows. And the applause abruptly cuts out and gives way to the credits. I liked how ominous that moment was.

I haven't rewatched this episode in a while, but I remember that tiny miniscule moment between Six and the butler. It's more like the butler pauses just a fraction of a second before doing something he's supposed to do (pulling a table back?) - but that one moment made me love the butler as a character . . . so I was

Oh, I didn't mean that you were stealing someone else's theory or anything. I was just saying you probably didn't need it. But I guess it's hard to guest-write someone else's column without writing something like that.

Charlie Day has been deserving some award recognition for a while now. He's one of my favorite characters on TV.

Fringe being two shows
I could be wrong, but it seems like the paragraph about Fringe, and serialized dramas in general, being two kinds of shows at once is something that's been covered in this column before. I guess it would have been done by Mr. Murray. Or maybe it's just something discussed in the comments.

It's a good thing I'm not in charge of destroying all movies I find poor, or I would have chucked INTOLERABLE CRUELTY years ago. But I'm not a Preston Sturges fan, and they probably were trying to replicate his style.

Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind
is awesome.

I like Buffalo Soldiers, too.

I'd say the worst they can do is INTOLERABLE CRUELTY.

I'm not a big fan of Don. By that, I mean I think he's a dick. Not just a product of his time, but also in that he is constantly ugly to people he deems lesser than himself. He's a bully. He married a trophy wife that he constantly cheats on. He trains his underlings to fear him and then chastizes them for using his