The catchphrase is right on the money in this case. There was a major marketing push behind her in the mid-'80s, including lots of MTV videos for songs that I don't believe ever charted, and a pretty decent guest starring performance as a psycho hooker in the Miami Vice episode "Little Miss Dangerous". After this…

Which maybe makes some sort of sense when you're fleeing a dying home planet and are planning your invasion on the fly, but makes no sense at all in Spielberg's re-imagining where the aliens are supposed to have been on Earth and hibernating for thousands of years.

The only rationale I could contrive for it was that the aliens weren't trying to conquer the Earth, but were simply raiding it — something closer to the purpose of the aliens of Predator, but perhaps more like a religious ritual than "hunting".

Given the circumstances, the break would have occurred more-or-less at the waterline, such that it might not be clear to observers at a significant distance, at night, just what was going on. Any survivors who were closer at the time were likely significantly distracted from such observations by things like freezing…

I was in no position to judge…

As an underage girl, she was clearly out of your territory, Church.

15-year old Jennifer Connelly, we might add…

Zontar Prevails!

Not quite what I had in mind, though Zontar did figure prominently in a couple of classic SCTV episodes…

Van Cleef's performance really sells this, well beyond Corman's directorial resourcefulness.
And I think it would be pretty ripe for a remake ala The Fly.

I'm still shipping Louise and Regular-Sized Rudy

I visited Dealey Plaza and the Schoolbook Depository museum in Dallas, and I thought that looked much smaller than it always does when you're watching the Zapruder film. And it certainly didn't seem like an impossible shot for Oswald.

Or it may just have been store policy, and the flunky at the register didn't want to rock the boat or thought you might have been part of some kind of "sting".

Is Kasdan doing the next screenplay? I think that had as much or more to do with the success of Episode VII as Abrams did, while there are loads of directors other than Abrams that, unlike Lucas, can actually give actors direction.

Bear rape in place of dysentery — Rebooting Oregon Trail for the 21st century.

Are the FBI guys in the ET scene armed or unarmed?

"Fraud" implies you're consciously lying. The Warrens and many others might well fit into that category, but I think most believers in the paranormal are better described as "credulous", or at worst "deluded".

Laibach on the soundtrack? What song (I'm assuming it's not original)?

So it's Leon: The Professional without the violence? It's the O'Doul's of movies.

Do you suppose there'd be an audience for the opposite of ASMR videos?