Prince of Darkness
…—mment from the year one, nine, nine, nine. You are receiving this broadcast in order to alter the events you are seeing. Our technology has not developed a transmitter strong enough to reach your conscious state of awareness, but this is not a dream. You are seeing what is actually occurring for…

Spot on, Pontifex. What's not as discussed with The Outer Limits is how amazing the shows looked. TOL has some fantastic cinematography. I'm rewatching the series and many of them look like some of the better film noirs of the 40's. Even Incubus, the Shatner/Esperanto film that was made by many of the same people as…

Oh, I don't mean the show lasted three seasons, but that the DVD packaging breaks the show up into three seasons. The first made it 32 eps and the second 17.

You can buy all three seasons at Wal-Mart for 10 bucks apiece on DVD. That's 30 dollars for a collection of some of the darkest, strangest, most beautiful pieces of television ever made.

Nice Lunchbox Pic
You have up there.

Agreed, xuul. I now have a new comment name for…somewhere…

I understand that Casino is, at least in part, a parody of Goodfellas. Universal kept trying to get him to "do another Goodfellas" that he gave them what they wanted, but without the same drive. It works really well, that way, esp. when Joe Pesci's narration gives out on him. At 3 hours, it drags a bit in places, but…

Or the "they're actually having sex" sex scene?

Fincher does that better than anyone else right now. Zodiac's effects are not only invisible, but artful. There's a throwaway sequence where the detectives are driving to the cab murder scene, and there's a camera pan across a stretch of road that catches them driving in diagonally from the other side as a motorcycle…

I once had an amazing conversation with Bordwell about Hong Kong action films, before the camera moves and edits became Hollywood norms, where he went almost frame by frame — verbally — through a scene from Hard Boiled and acted as much a film geek as a historian. And then we moved without pause onto Iron Chef.

Funniest Sequence Ever?
Possibly the scene in the car after the landlady and her husband have disposed of the Harpists. As the two gang leaders try to figure out what's happened, the married couple suddenly "appear" in the car, due to some hilarious, deadpan editing that just places them in there. After being…

Yes, it's unbelievable that a man as talented as Burke got treated like crap for years by record companies, had his own hits bowdlerized by The Blues Brothers to the point that when Genesis covered "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love" live they did a version closer to their cover than the original, and just when we…

Fuckin 'eh, Lobsters.

Damn.
He made a couple of amazing albums over the past few years. It's great that he had a late career revival, making some of his best music ever. Don't Give Up On Me is amazing, and even his country album is pretty good. One of the legends.

"TOMTIT?!!!"

Hey! You shot and I believed you!

Caught that myself, AlainChristian. Wow. They did stand out.

Yeah, but what about Firefly?

That is fucking awesome.

Joshua Judges Ruth
To echo a few people's comments, stopping before Joshua Judges Ruth is a shame. It's not only his best album, it's one of the best country albums ever. His stylistic fiddling seems much more natural, and the despair within songs such as "She's Already Made Up Her Mind", "North Dakota", and "All My…