I already suspected that these Disney Star Warses weren't going to be for me, but the announcement of Trevorrow getting that job solidified it. I hate harping on stuff long after the fact, but Jurassic World was SO BAD that it's really hard not to resent this motherfucker failing upward so easily.

"Human"?

If only Nic Cage had been there to make them put the bunny down.

I think that's an apples/oranges situation. They each have very different goals and both achieve them. I think they're about equal.

Jaws is a much better movie than it is a book. So is The Godfather.

Caged Heat is without question the nicest Women In Prison movie ever made.

Most New World movies from the 80s were from after Corman sold the studio (in '82, I think) to form Concorde, which released a lot of Jim Wynorski pictures and other crap like that. You're right, post-Corman New World was a semi-reliable purveyor of VHS schlock, like Vestron or Cannon, but I don't have the same soft…

Oh, that's definitely on purpose. Starling's real enemy in the movie is not Buffalo Bill, but all the patronizing men around her who think they can limit what she's capable of. Glenn is your typical father figure who is perfectly pleasant on the surface but deep down is incapable of seeing a woman as an equal.

I think that's a great sequence. One of the few cat-and-mouse set-pieces set in pitch blackness that actually feels DARK.

It's been a while but I think it was by itself. I suspect the intercutting you're thinking of is between the FBI raid on the wrong house and Starling knocking on Gumb's door.

I have a special place in my heart for everybody who came out of New World, especially those, like Demme, who seemed to take pride in where they came from. I'll admit that I don't think I've seen a movie of his this century, but he'll always be the guy who made Roger Corman the head of the FBI. In a Best Picture…

"Everything was great for the first eight days of our relationship but then for the next three years she's taken to slowly whittling my penis down to a nub with a salami slicer. She hates it as much as I do. Obviously, those first eight days created a contract between us that can never be broken, dooming us both to…

I actually liked the way he shot his action scenes in Life Aquatic. Kind of made me curious about how he would approach a real action movie. Or at least as close to a real anything as he's capable of.

That's an even worse trailer than I thought then.

I'm not surprised. I got about ten seconds into the trailer before the smug overwhelmed me. I'd imagine the average viewer's tolerance would be even lower.

At the rate human beings are spawning, I'd say blood is the most renewable resource there is.

Bible Man, Bible Man
Does whatever a Bible can
Says some shit that don't make sense
Then he contradicts himself
Oh crap. Here comes the Bible Man.

Can we ascertain whether he was born an asshole or whether he worked at it his whole life?

I'm sure most of those guys were white, so his story checks out.

I have long blocked Bob Loblaw's Lawblog.