RYTC hasn't responded, so I'll take up the task.

I agree. The whole idea of a remake seems wrong-headed. Akira was more of an exercise in style and experimentation than a cohesive, comprehensive film. It'd be damn near impossible to replicate its surreal plot, tone, setting, and cultural impact.

Or just hand this whole thing over to Duncan Jones. He made Moon for like $12 and Source Code for $32 million. Dude knows how to take a huge, convoluted story and make it work for cheap.

Get him with the gristle gun, Ted.

Baumbach loves his fractured families.

So I just got back from seeing The Thing. Despite being a die-hard "puppets and real SFX are cooler" person, some of the CG monsters were pretty jarring and scary. Tasha points out that all the scares are pop-out-of-nowhere moments and crank the soundtrack. And she's totally right.

I think that's what did it to me. I grew up on a horse farm and my mom has trained them her whole life.

If we are to believe the teachings of Troll 2, your dead grandparents should always help you in your time of need by convincing you to piss on hospitality.

They probably left it off because the deaths aren't permanent. Everybody, including Artax, rolls back in at the end all casual-like. The other examples are a point-of-no-return kind of death.

Eagle eyed tiger? Dibs on new band name!

I loved this episode. I laughed the whole way through. Puppy parties and s'more-off's? Count me in.

We Hate Movies has gotten me into reading the parental advisories on IMDB. The Thing has some excellent quotes:

That's exactly why stuff like Labyrinth and the Dark Crystal continues to terrify me. The Skeksis' lurching and the goblin's facial expressions just can't be appropriately done with CG yet.

I took a class in college on Cronenberg's films and we watched this interview between John Landis, David Cronenberg, and John Carpenter (http://www.youtube.com/watc…

*dumps whiskey into computer*

I didn't understand why the internet hated Brett Ratner until I looked up his directing credits.

Boy I'm glad I wasn't the only one who was irked by mentions of "whiskey rivers." I cued this up on Grooveshark and almost immediately stopped the album when I heard the first few lyrics.

I consider Run, Ronnie, Run and Let's Go to Prison secret successes. Both were straight-to-video bombs that I watched with hesitation, but now enjoy wholeheartedly.

Thanks for the response, Tasha. You're right - a review of FS would come down to "Adam and guest host disagree slightly about Diablo Cody. Massacre Theater is funny."

Did I miss the irony train or did Chris mean to call Whitney's comedy "acerbic" and "risque"? I watched about five minutes of her stand-up special and could only find "recycled" and "bound to be forwarded to me in an email by my aunt."