A lot of early commentary I saw on it was just people overjoyed that something was using the Turing test because they loved that as a sci-fi plot element, but I thought the exploration of it was incredibly shallow and that it's completely abandoned by the last act. Quasi-intellectual seems appropriate, but I don't…

I feel like most of the "rapturous" reviews were giving it more credit than it deserved. I was really into the film for about 30 minutes, and was very fascinated by the first conversations between Isaac and the protagonist, but it seemed to be a case of "the emperor has no clothes." I thought it ended up having…

Are you using your guess as to how a child would react to Pixar movies as your primary criteria for dismissing them? I guess if I had kids and they hated all pixar movies I could see that, but not some hypothetical child. For all I know, real children are deeply moved by miscarriage montages.

I saw it 6 times in the theater, but found that when I watched it on blu-ray at home it was barely a different experience as long as I had the surround system cranked to super-loud. Through little TV speakers it would be a different experience, but probably still good.

Oh no, the quasi-intellectual robot movie that devolves into a boring thriller in the last act isn't making many best of the year lists! I didn't DISLIKE it, but it really wasn't anything special. Besides the dance scene.

Yeah, it probably will. I am looking forward to it. I do like some of his more "standard" themes a lot, too, like everything in Cinema Paradiso and Jill's Theme and Gabriel's Oboe and whatnot, I just was initially disappointed here cause of how much I love all his wild stuff from the 60s and 70s and how this doesn't…

It's much more generic than I was hoping, it doesn't come close to his truly great themes like Great Silence or What Have You Done to Solange? or Lizard in a Woman's Skin or TGTBATU. I guess it was silly to hope for something really out-there on such a big studio movie, though. The outro sounds like some of the…

It was a podcast, so you'd have to listen! Apparently I am incapable of pasting in a disqus comment box on an iPhone, but the site was called Radio of Horror blog and it was just posted a day or two ago.

Satire of what?

I don't know where that guy got his information, Trace just did an interview the other day where he said he'd been made a good offer and that he'd turned it down.

S2 is a prequel of sorts that takes place in 1979 and thus doesn't have Billy Bob at all.

Not a chance. That santa speech alone would totally disqualify it. PG is reserved for like, Frozen (the disney one).

I believe she lived through Savage Streets (after being gang-raped, of course). She also got to be avenged by Linda Blair in ridiculous badass mode.

Caveman is a masterpiece. Although the incredibly cringeworthy 80s-style attempted date rape for laffs scene makes it so I can't recommend it to anyone else.

Escape's not a prequel if you look at it from the perspective of the time-traveling apes! It also has a very brief opening that happens after the 2nd movie! In terms of chronology for the majority of the movie, though, yeah. :P Then part 4 is a sequel to that which takes place ENTIRELY in that prequel time period,…

It tries to cover its ass by saying "plenty of them have other themes too, but all of them are about how a group of survivors has to stick together or they die!!!" Which isn't really the case at all in any of those I mentioned, especially ROTLD3 where it's one guy and his zombie girlfriend, or Deadgirl, where the one…

I would also add Deadgirl (teenage boys are THE WORST), Return of the Living Dead 3 (how being a selfish cretin in a relationship can cause the other person to have to torture themselves to put up with your BS), The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (distrust of modern technology, institutional hatred of counterculture…

Naw, i hated it too. The werewolf girls transforming to Marilyn Manson was where it completely lost me. In my ranking of horror anthology flicks, it's somewhere way down there with The Monster Club. It makes From a Whisper to a Scream look like Creepshow!

Anyone else reminded of "Just Before Dawn?" The grand finale on that one was somehow grosser than this one, despite the lack of internal shots and blood. :P

The dialogue from Melisandre in that scene said that leeching a little blood wouldn't be enough, if I remember right. I think Stannis even said something about leeches?