The Omen has aged badly, though I still like it.  The Exorcism is just as excellent and effective now as it was forty years ago.

Exorcist III would still have been better than every other exorcist film combined if it was only one minute long:

Exorcist III would still have been better than every other exorcist film combined if it was only one minute long:

Well, yeah.  Just look at the picture.  The new standard for "demonic possession" is "act like you're doing a one-man performance of Swan Lake while suppressing dysentery".

Well, yeah.  Just look at the picture.  The new standard for "demonic possession" is "act like you're doing a one-man performance of Swan Lake while suppressing dysentery".

All Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did was rip off Edgar Allan Poe, anyway, so let's call it even.

All Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did was rip off Edgar Allan Poe, anyway, so let's call it even.

By Jupiter, the membership of this Audio-Visual Club has surely seen an ignoble decline.  They will be letting in the Irish next, no doubt.

By Jupiter, the membership of this Audio-Visual Club has surely seen an ignoble decline.  They will be letting in the Irish next, no doubt.

In fairness to the French, they also deposed him.

In fairness to the French, they also deposed him.

@avclub-997c221538094d134659141cf61d51e3:disqus Because there is absolutely nothing in The Prince that contradicts Machiavelli's more favourable works, such as Discourses on Livys.  The Prince is simply a treatise on pragmatic politics.  But since it has accrued such negative connotations since its publication, modern…

@avclub-997c221538094d134659141cf61d51e3:disqus Because there is absolutely nothing in The Prince that contradicts Machiavelli's more favourable works, such as Discourses on Livys.  The Prince is simply a treatise on pragmatic politics.  But since it has accrued such negative connotations since its publication, modern…

How fat can a four year-old be, anyway?

How fat can a four year-old be, anyway?

Critics always claim that a morally dubious work by one of their preferred artists is actually secretly subversive.  See for instance, the many people who claim that Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is a parody.

Critics always claim that a morally dubious work by one of their preferred artists is actually secretly subversive.  See for instance, the many people who claim that Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is a parody.

Grating?

Grating?

Or even 0.1% of the time.