Frozen like your soul, in your head, girl…right? I think Jared Leto might use that in a lyric.

Seriously. Only TWIN PEAKS's 2nd season rivals LUKE CAGE for immediate drop in quality. Holy shit those last 6 episodes are unfathomably bad.

I fucking hate it when well-meaning Beer Bongs ruin my enjoyment of goth-y detective shows. Thanks a lot! *cries tears of blood*

I never dressed the part (mostly), but I've long been a Goth Kid at heart. I used to say that the first season of TRUE DETECTIVE was so good it sent me into a major depression. In any case, I do think the 2nd season was a botched attempt at a kind of Lynchian "Gothic/Haunted Hollywood" aesthetic that should have been…

I'd agree about the seasons, although I don't think the 1st was quite as amazing as the reception it got (I don't think it's overrated, but perhaps a bit overblown, if that makes sense), and while the 2nd season was not good, I dunno if I'd say it was one of the worst seasons of TV ever.

Wheeeeeewwww doggie!

It'll be a meta reference to von Trier's Prologue in ANTICHRIST, somehow.

That's awesome that you got to use it yourself! I love the idea of the Interrotron, and now that I think about it, I agree that its use with MR. DEATH is probably my fave use by him. But MR. DEATH was shot around the same time as FAST CHEAP & OUT OF CONTROL, right? I'd heard that Fred Leuchter was originally going to…

On a practical level, Gunn is able to do a ton of stealth world building in GOTG because the viewer hasn't related the Guardians to other heroes on Earth yet. Whereas in other movies the broader MCU world building stuff seems more overt, in GOTG it's less jarring. Part of that is definitely Gunn's writing talents, of…

WHAT THE FUCK YOU MEAN "YOU PEOPLE"

"The kids love 'em!"

Obligatory:

Kurtz discoursed. A bark! a bark! It rang deep to the very last. It survived his strength to hide in the magnificent folds of chicken wings the barren darkness of his heart. Oh, he struggled! he struggled! The wastes of his doggy brain were haunted by shadowy images now – images of eggs and food revolving obsequiously…

In Morris's defense, I'm not sure anything would have worked with Rumsfeld. MacNamara was, in his own bizarre way, a Humanist. A Humanist who'd done ghoulish deeds, but it can be two things etc. But whereas with MacNamara, self-consciousness gradually gave way to self-awareness in his life (which I think is part of…

I think one could piece together some of the episodes from youtube but the videos are really chopped up, unorganized, etc. Unfortunately. One can order a used DVD of it on Amazon but it's been out of print for a LOOONG time.

That's a good point, I hadn't seen that. There's also a certain thematic ambition in some of his work that I can't quite describe, but THE UNKNOWN KNOWN is a great example of it. He's always been obsessed with Truth, or "Truth", or whatever. But in putting Rumsfeld's bracing sociopathy on display (compare with the…

Yeah it's hard to fault other action films for not rising to the same level as the JOHN WICKs, but man, it really does make a difference having him doing all his own shit.

Ditto, but as much as I generally adore Morris's work, it does feel very… diminishing returns(?) at this point for me. I just have to say it: I greatly miss the Morris of GATES OF HEAVEN/VERNON FLORIDA. (Although I fucking love FAST CHEAP & OUT OF CONTROL and MR DEATH.)

Just want to say that this is a great list, I'm impressed. I haven't heard of half of these movies and definitely want to check some of them out now.

Ya betcha!