I was equally disappointed by both of them.

Exorcist 2 is pretty damned bad. Plus, it's a sequel to a really good movie, so that gives it some extra badness. Like how Phantom Menace is extra-hateable because the original trilogy was so good.

It's not good, but it's better than Metalstorm, Spacehunter, Yor, or Dune.

Phantom Menace had a good soundtrack, too.

If you want to see some terrible acting and terrible dialogue, watch Dune.

Dune has all the same flaws as ATOC. Wooden acting, terrible dialogue, wretched interpretation of an intellectual property. Plus the FX are terrible.

Terminator: Salvation vs Manos: Hands of Fate—-wow. That's awful $200 million oranges vs awful 59-cent apples.

For me, that one is fourth—right after

Have you seen "Dune"?

I'm willing to accept the movie trope of sound in space, just like I'm willing to accept the movie trope of background music. That sound choice was jarring, though.

I think they were pressure suits, just not ones based on the aesthetic/technological trajectory of the American space program.

This obviously takes place in the West Wing universe, where the elections are two years off from ours. Maybe it's a shout-out to West Wing.

No.

Yes, but he didn't play Dr No. My point was that if he had played Dr No, I don't think it would have affected his career much. I don't think missing out on Dr No was a big deal for him.

I thought he turned down Gandalf. My understanding was that he was offered Gandalf, and turned it down because there was too much running around and physical stuff that he didn't think he'd be up to, and asked if he could do Saruman instead.

No. A kid I went to junior high with knew a kid who saw it.

I think I'm ready for this redraw-cartoons-as-realism trend and the Disney Princess re-imagining to take a break.

I think I was in high school.

He wrote the dreadful script. "The tooth! The tooth! Remember the tooth!" wasn't some studio bureaucrat's fault. That whole thing about the studio screwing it up is a bunch of revisionism, anyhow. At the moment that it came out, Lynch was talking about how it was his vision and audiences were going to be blown away…

I don't know that playing Dr No would have vaulted Christopher Lee to stardom. It didn't do much for the guy who actually did play Dr No. Now, if Christopher Lee had played James Bond...