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Warners also botched THE AVENGERS.
These shows ran on the wit of their writers and the chemistry of their stars - things you can't just get by throwing around money. And without them, you've got nothing.

Well, the thing about that series was that they changed producers every year, so each season had a different tone. The early black-and-white ones are more or less straight with a bit of humor, second season's more playful and tongue-in-cheek; third season is painfully bad camp; and the last season tried to go for a

Yeah, it's a very different vibe. Seminal in it's own way (and Karloff is wonderful in it), but very much an early 1930s horror movie.
The Hammer MUMMY from the 1950s is probably the way to go: It just boiled down all those 1940s mummy movies into one, and amped up the action. (Chris Lee just smashes a ton of shit

To be absolutely fair, MUMMY 99 is better than at least one of the official Indy films, maybe two (depending on individual taste).
And it's really not THAT far from THE MUMMY'S HAND, which is the 1940s Mummy reboot that sums up most people's idea of what those old mummy movies were like.

But if you watch NIGHTMARE and NEW NIGHTMARE together, they become his crowning achievement: first he makes a straight-up B-movie… and then he turns it inside out, and makes it even better.

Well, the weird humor goes all the way back to LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (where it REALLY doesn't work)

Well, in the sense that the next couple of years get worse, and then they get better, and then you start having strange dreams about Jennifer Tilly.

I'd rank LAND higher (Just under DAY); it helps if you think of it as Romero doing a John Carpenter riff- good, unpretentious genre thrills.

Reportedly, the opening scene of the miniseries- the long pan through the building full of corpses while "Don't Fear The Reaper" plays- was Romero's idea- a leftover from the script he and King worked on.
Since it all goes way downhill after that, I'm pretty sure he would have certainly done better than what we got.

Are we sure this wasn't actually tweeted by Peyton Reed?

Yeah, Fox (and the GOP brass-not that there's a difference) knows that Trump is pretty much sure to win the nomination- and pretty much certain to lose the election. So they'd like to take him out.
Problem is, he's really just a louder, pushier version of all the other candidates, anyway- and there's nothing the

Damn, Mick should have taken over hosting TDS.
At least Trevor Noah should keep a folding chair handy for the interview segments.

Doesn't Comedy Central offer a stream from their website? (I'm in Canada, and I watch the show off their Canadian counterpart's site)

JOHN WAYNE WAS A GREAT AMERICAN!
(not sure who this "Gacy" guy is, but how bad could he be?)

I've never read any of the novels about Bobby Lee Swagger, but the prequels about his dad Earl are pretty good, so I'll give them the benefit of saying "sure, these books would probably be a decent idea for a tv series"
Of course, the only thing relevant here is that Mark Wahlberg, King Of Bad Remakes Of Classic

Hey, don't try to pigeonhole a 50-foot ape.

I don't need to know why he's a big ape; I need to know why he's a big ape with a vendetta against the mob.

Wait, is John C. Reilly PLAYING Kong? Because THAT is some good casting.

It's notable that Marvel's kind of in the process of rehabilitating them in the comics: the actual FF book is cancelled, and they're all taking up residence elsewhere: Johnny's hanging with The Inhumans; Ben's joined the GOTG; Sue's doing work for SHIELD, and Reed's in the Illuminati.

If this bombs, I think it'll be a 50/50 chance between trying to strike a deal with Marvel or stubbornly just holding on to the rights until they run out.