I noticed! I even have the ones before they retconned them because of Alien 3. I have no idea why they bothered given Prometheus screwed it up for them again, even though they were much closer to the first movie with the Engineers than Prometheus was (no way that wasn't a skull, not a space helmet).

Second for me after the Blues Brothers. They're the only two movies I've ever given 5 stars out of 5. Mind you, I wasn't even a teenager then and it just adds to the truism, it's as much when you see a movie and the circumstances you saw it under that can determine how much you like it.

Actually on the subject of well worn VHS tapes, there was a dubious loophole in the copyright law in Sri Lanka where somehow people could get away with dubbing a videotape, write the name on the side of a blank video cassette and rent them out like an actual video store.

Both of them have their merits in different ways. It's what different films in a series should always aim for.

What can I say, I'm old.

I love this film. Saw it in the cinema back in 1986 and again last year in a special revival. Pleased to see some people in the audience who hadn't even been born when it came out enjoyed it.

Interesting coincidence.

Well, they brilliantly subverted the whole Cordelia is an angel thing. The Cordelia/Angel thing was probably a creative mistake but from the point of view of two people who knew each other a long time, I can see how it could happen, also Cordelia really had grown as a person when you looked beyond the few extroverted…

I agree with that. Buffy Season 3 is actually a lot more consistent. I guess for me, though the peaks in Season 2 were really good peaks. The main story line once Spike and Drusilla turn up and especially when Angelus joins them to kick things into gear were exceptional.

It may not be too much different from this:

I actually liked Bad Eggs because it was clearly a nod to Robert Heinlein's The Puppetmasters and Lyle and Tector Gorch were just as much a clear nod to Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch.

I've seen write-ups of cases where off duty police officers have been shot dead by others in uniform on duty. That guess you made about the details? Yes, you were right for each one of the cases I read about.

I think because they'd shown people had been brought back from death a few times by then, they had to up the stakes. Basically, absolute annihilation was the new point of no return. It's as terrible a fate you could inflict on anyone (more so if you realise in retrospect, just letting Fred die anytime before Illyria…

I really liked how the first time we see Lincoln at the end of Season 2, it's his alternate Red Universe version. They trust the audience to work out his character without heavy layers of exposition such as how he had a past with Nick as seen on the bridge, all they had to do was show he clearly recognised him and…

The evolution of Illyria is something I really feel cheated about given there was no Season 6. However, those parts in "The Girl in Question" where Wesley is steeling himself up to tell Fred's parents she's dead and out of nowhere, Illyria-as-Fred are Maslany level someone as someone else almost getting it right but…

There were some good bits in Season 4 and when I heard how much they had to scramble to change things at such short notice, I was impressed in the same way I most definitely was not with Battestar Galactica and their repeated fuck ups with the plot. I mean what happened to Lilah, did not see that coming at all.…

Season 2 Buffy was definitively best Buffy. Becoming Part 2 was magnificent. Spike's speech as to why he's going to help Buffy was a masterstroke and the final confrontation at the mansion was probably the very best finale in the entire show for the action, drama and even some comedy (Giles: They're just making me see…

The sheer look and sound of disbelief when Olivia learned Walternate was the Secretary of Defense in the Red Universe was worth its weight in gold. Then of course, John Noble fully justified why this version of Walter was an appropriate choice for the job from the moment we saw him as opposed to his Blue Universe…

Well, here's something with John Cusack that's much more entertaining than this film. It's John Cusack being interviewed about his role in American Beauty.

I remember when I first read 1408, it was original just partially complete as an example he created for his book "On Writing" on how to start a story, complete with annotations showing his thought processes as he made it. It hooked me instantly and I really hoped he'd complete it. Obviously he must have come to the…