Allah?

"You have to understand that not everyone is as obsessed with superhero movies as you are."

The drunken commentary to Trey Parker and Matt Stone's CANNIBAL THE MUSICAL, to this day, remains the best commentary track ever.

That scene of drunk Charlie hitting baseballs as Mac pitches to him is one of the greatest things I've ever seen, best drunk acting I've ever seen.

It's not my cup of tea, personally, but it's definitely a very well-made movie.

That's actually great to hear, because I was underwhelmed by THE WITCH as well. It is an excellent movie, and the sheer craft of it is phenomenal, I just didn't find it very effective, personally. So I'll definitely give BT a shot.

If I have the freedom to give you my 2 cents, and Freedom costs a buck O-five, then here's $1.07 worth of my opinion: I think every person on this planet has a deep-seated need to create a mythology for themselves, and we have evolved various methods for sating this need. The majority of folks have a religion to do…

True, just wanted to make sure I didn't sell ORDET as something it's not.

Nice! PITFALL is a suspense/horror-ish film, and Teshigahara's other 2 films from around the same time, WOMAN OF THE DUNES and THE FACE OF ANOTHER, are also brilliant and suspenseful and disturbing. But PITFALL is the most overtly supernatural/horror-y.

Did you ever see Teshigahara's PITFALL? KWAIDAN and PITFALL both do a similar thing in how they represent ghosts and spirits, where instead of stylizing them in some way, they're just there in this very matter of fact fashion, which makes it all the more frightening and haunting. Though there are other Japanese films…

KWAIDAN is awesome, it is such a beautiful horror film (or should I say, films). The tone (and even the texture of the cinematography) of KWAIDAN reminds me so much of THE SHINING.

Upvoted cuz fuck the '80s fetishists.

RAN is absolutely fucking amazing, it's definitely my favorite Kurosawa. I'm a sucker for a brilliant Shakespeare adaptation, and RAN is one of the all-time greats in any medium.

Maybe if you fuckers were REAL NERDS you'd have heard the screenwriters for CIVIL WAR say this exactly on the commentary for CIVIL WAR! Losers!!!

Will You Marry Me?

I can see that. You're right, it's the overuse that's irritating.

Since this is timely, given the remake:

Totally. I'm comparing him as a prose writer to the canonical greats, which might be unfair to him, but it's not intended to be. It really just depends on what you're getting from an artist, and what they are able/willing to give you. I am not qualified to evaluate King as a genre writer (where I'm sure his prose his…

King is a mediocre writer, overall, but he is a fucking incredible storyteller. He's not a writer I'm jonesing to read on a sentence by sentence basis, but that's not what he's about. He knows how to write well enough to tell the stories he tells, and every once in a while he'll crank out some good, inventive prose.

I tried to use the term "content" once in that same way that folks use it in that overbroad, media sense, and I felt like a part of my soul died. That one bothers me, feels somehow nihilistic, it's weird.