The Grail appears to everyone differently…

I remember Hardware as pretty visually dazzling by 1990 standards, but truly incoherent in narrative — a real trainwreck you couldn't help but be fascinated by.

I'm not going to diss the original, but perhaps every generation gets the Tor Johnson it deserves, if not the one it needs.

I'm not really the first to post here, but all those other posts were kind of short and irrelevant, so…

The odds of a person meeting their significant other in some adorable
way, learning a lesson about what family really means, and then living
happily ever after must be better than the odds of that person
single-handedly liberating a secret POW camp somewhere in an unnamed
East Asian country.

Unexpected fluency as a gag apparently dates back to the silent era. An old PBS show about the turn-of-the-20th-century Yiddish film industry showed a clip from an film where an middle-aged Jewish immigrant couple talks in Yiddish about their family's private scandals before one asks the other if their black cab…

Douglas (the talk show host) did cling tenaciously to that hairstyle for a good twenty years or more.

That was the first thing I thought of when Rabin described the show, or possibly Shandling's previous weird, fourth-wall-breaking sitcom.

And back then, the networks probably had no reason to believe in the long-term worth of such films, giving them little incentive to buy them, and leaving them available to be aired by various UHF stations through the '80s and early '90s, as I recall.

Those kids sound like they could easily be befriended to subvert the "Emperor", possibly getting incriminating information to blackmail him for tax evasion, or possibly conspiring to melt his heart with the true meaning of Christmas. Whether I ended up paired off with the just-a-little-too-old-to-be-jailbait one, or…

I guess that's critically-acclaimed and well-remembered enough to get some love, I would think there are some other hidden gems in their archives that would be worth seeing again, but unfamiliar titles would likely get a fraction of the views.

You'd think they could at least fill up time at 3:00AM with them, or take a break from running the same movie back-to-back all day. Modern cable scheduling baffles me.

That's Malcolm at the craps table at Caesar's, right?

Mountain Dew's pretty lightly carbonated anyway, but it'll be plenty watered down after the ice melts overnight in the fridge. I don't actually care for coffee — Mountain Dew's my preferred morning beverage.

Playing the role of a robot will be one of the last jobs in which robots fully replace humans.

You've been reading it for the tasteful, airbrushed nudes all these years?

I was just thinking that myself — Marshall was very much a "steal what works" media-factory sort of guy.

My recollection is that the "Basterds" might believe that, but that Shoshanna's plan makes everything else irrelevant.
Of course, there's really not much reason for them to honor that deal after the fact, beyond whatever use they think Landa might be in the future.

I found the whole thing enjoyably weird and dreamy, if difficult to recall in detail after all these years (a common trait of "weakly plotted" movies). Divine's performance deserves another shout-out, though. At the time there was talk about this being his "mainstream breakthrough" role, though he died abruptly enough…

I haven't actually (ha!) seen it to be sure, but I know it's pretty well-regarded among rom-com fans. I invoked Marshall because I know his follow that model, and are vastly cheesier.