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It's an odd combination of grim and silly. It's even sillier when you realize that it took place in 1999. I still don't know why a mere four years into the future was treated as a dystopian shithole.

He had really ludicrous hair in Strange Days. But then again, everybody did, because it was the future.

Howard Stern has a face that was just made for television!

Or that anyone at all saw The Campaign.

Jessica Chastain was "scared as shit" in Zero Dark Thirty? Having seen the movie, I'd say the complete opposite of that is true.

Eh, have you ever gone to Disney World? It really is shitloads of fun. You have to be, like, deliberately trying to not have fun to not have fun there.

You know that 21 & Over was a flop, thus there's no need to bash it, right? The timing on these posts is extraordinary. You're also a little late on the weird anti-Jennifer Aniston thing too. Right now, the trendy thing is making fun of Anne Hathaway, get with the program.

I've tried them. They're…odd, but not unpleasant. Like eating maple syrup covered potatoes, I couldn't taste any chicken at all.

Agreed. The tragedy of The Shining as a novel is that Jack Torrance, while seeming slightly unbalanced from the get-go, does put up a good fight against both personal and external demons, but loses in the end. Nicholson seemed fully into whatever dark shit the hotel offered from the very beginning. Also, he's about a

I do believe you are correct, sir.

I read Pet Sematary first as a kid, then again years later after I had become a parent. The first time it was merely scary, the second time was some next level terror that I had never experienced before, mostly because I found myself thinking "Yeah, what Louis ends up doing does make a terrible sort of sense."

You're both correct. He was a handyman and a tennis instructor. No, really, I remember that.

I liked how he tied it into the overall "Castle Rock is just inherently evil" thing, by mentioning Frank Dodd from The Dead Zone. It made it both creepier and a little more tragic.

Ah…I think Pintauro was more like 4 at the time. Or at least, the character was supposed to be. I'm sure 240 comments in it's already been mentioned, but the book is way more brutal than the movie, including the fate of the kid.

This is probably the best one yet, because Hitchcock wasn't trying to go for some edgy "pop music sucks" or overtly ironic take on it. That weird sort of defeated tone is also what makes songs like "Love the One You're With" and that godawful "Breakfast at Tiffany's" terrible.

Definitely the best episode of the season, and one of the best in the series as a whole. Morgan's "the meek have inherited the earth" speech had me teary-eyed.

I'm pretty sure that none of the people behind these movies ever attended an actual college party.

I think my eyes got a rash just reading that.

You know, I'm having a hard time dealing with the fact that my kid isn't little anymore, but then there are times when I'm really fucking relieved.

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