No, it's ART cinema! Those last shots are no doubt an hommage to the avant-garde stylings of Bergman's Persona.

No mention of General Kael, the baddie named in tribute to the late, great critic Pauline Kael, who was Lucas's nemesis.

I hadn't watched the show since its glory days, but this was a good return to form, though the mall-kids clawing their way into the xmas cabin is part of the show's incongruous shifts to all-out farce we viewers have learned to live with.

Hooper was going to die in the movie, but after the fantastic footage of a real shark thrashing around in a cage (without the stunt-double), they wanted to keep that, and change the story so Hooper lives. It's for the best anyway, because he's a more appealing character in the film.

I've always preferred the focused intensity and momentum of RD to Pulp Fiction. Still, at times I think that QT gets off on brutality for it's own sake. For instance, early on Orange screams "She had a baby, man!" which I take to mean that the innocent woman he blew away was pregnant. Now such a scene can be valid in…