And no one should miss When The Winds Blows, the fun cartoon version.

I think my version of paragraph #2 is any film where someone is dying, conscious, but so out of it that they don't realize it, either light-headed from blood loss or has some painless poison put in their IV or perhaps are having parts of their brain removed and fried up for them by Hannibal Lector. Brrrrrrrrrrr.

"You'll be dead before you can say: 'I'm sorry Jesus for being such an ungrateful child please don't send me to Hell.' So you see honey, nothing to worry about."

Yeah, The Box seems like a place where putting the Cinemascore in context with some reviews could be really helpful. Reviews (if I wrote them, anyway) would be in B-/C+, Cinemascore an F. So that could say "there's something interesting going on here but it's not a crowd pleaser" (and, as @vandermonde wrote above, not…

Actually it's Citizen Kane in space but the Earth is the sled.

Yeah, on that level The Box getting an F makes a lot of sense.

LFB Donna, I assume? Watching FWWM, I found myself wishing both (a) that LFB had come back for the film, but even moreso (b) that Moira Kelly had been cast in the tv show. (Although I assume that was never a possibility.)

Michael Fassbender looks like someone who was alive then, doesn't he?

^respectfully^

"As unlikely as it may sound. Nicholas…Little Nicky…may in fact be The Devil."

Sounds good. Just didn't have the spelling back then.

The diminished menace may actually be part of the reason James (and to a lesser extent Donna) went bad. In the pilot, I liked them because they were good kids with danger and evil all around them. But once Bobby and Ben and the rest get de-fanged, I no longer felt their plight and they just became uninteresting except…

It's been sitting in my head half-formed for years, so hooray for AVC comments for drawing it out.

I think, in the film at least, there's a definite sense that Leland is complicit in his crimes, but also that he's terribly sorry to have done them. He's not a true serial killer type, who doesn't have empathy and does terrible things because they're fun. It seems more like he's ill, and the worst part of himself can…

Yeah, I think Lynch is one of those artists (possibly all of them?) who needs to be pushed out of his comfort zone a little in order to make his best work. Makes him come up for air a little, which lets him go back down even deeper.

That would be a very Twin Peaksy "future events cause past events" sort of thing. Maybe she hung that painting from FWWM on her wall.

Now that some time has passed, I prefer…the full blossom of the evening.

A lot of X-Files hasn't aged well for me. And the parts that still work are the stand-alone scary and (moreso) funny episodes. The rest is a pretty convincing illusion of serialization but is really just spinning its wheels. Took years to figure this out as it was happening but re-watching it it comes out immediately.

Of all the completely random meaningless coincidences in the show, the Mike & Bobby thing has to be the most random. Though I guess you do have the parallel that Mike quits on Bobby when things get too heavy.

I would argue that trying to puzzle this and other Lynch works out can be enriching, fun, and even natural part of the experience (even if you're just letting it wash over you, "taking a ride in the buggy" as the Cowboy says in Mulholland Drive, a natural part of that will be letting associations between things pull…