I think it’s a skill to learn to blend the reading of subtitles with the movie, but movies like Let the Right One In, Oldboy, or anything by Akira Kurosawa make it worth it.

But yes, Let the Right One In is an amazing movie. Movies like that really make it worth seeing in the native language.

Thanks! Yes, it looks to be free for me with a library card as well.

If Americans were more open-minded about reading subtitles...

I probably wouldn’t care (and honestly I really don’t care all that much), but my son’s seven. I just don’t feel like having that conversation with him just yet. Besides, he can find out from a more scholarly source than the walls of public transportation. Hypothetically, that is. I don’t live in NYC, so any…

Prop visuals, a clear textual communication that talks about sex, a brand. You really will have trouble arguing this isn’t apples to apples.

Why is there a big gap? And why should there be a big gap?

Thanks! I watched Rectify, and loved it (in part because it kept certain things very ambiguous as to who was good, bad, or likely that things exist in less than binary terms). I haven’t seen Six Feet Under, but have heard good things about it, so I’ll keep that in mind.

I’ll disagree if only because they apparently had a three-season arc planned out. I like the idea of three seasons that build off the other, even if (especially if?) each season is self-contained. That way if Netflix cancels it before it has a chance to finish its story, at least (hopefully) it ends up wrapping up the…

This entire thing has proved that the entire premise that people want to see the “Dark Phoenix” story “done right” was completely flawed.

Any adaptation is doomed to fail if adapters fail to realize that what made this arc an instant classic was the pathos in its emotional honesty - not just the cinematic setpieces.

Oh, yeah! YEAH!!!!! Well...um, yeah, you admittedly have a point there.

For me, it was an actor I happened to really like cast in a role I had been waiting decades to be done right on the screen. All else aside, I could let the Honk Mafahs bit go. I mean, after the myriad of ways Hollywood has screwed up Stephen King…

The thing that bugs me most, aside from the fact we still are not getting a proper The Dark Tower series since Wizard and Glass is a prequel, is the idea behind The Dark Tower was seemingly sound. It wasn’t just telling the story of the books, which would have been great. I am also a pretty huge fan of Idris Elba and…

So if you’re at a KR concert or appearance or anywhere in his vicinity...

You know, that got me thinking there must be some past trauma to have led to that pattern of choice in men. So I looked, and sure enough, Pam Anderson has apparently suffered a lot of sexual abuse as a child. She was molested by a female babysitter from ages 6 to 10, raped by a 25-year-old man when she was age 12, and…

I also liked it. Actually, I’ve liked all of the seasons and enjoy them taking a chance to do something different. My only hope is that they eventually wrap up the Archer’s-in-a-coma thing, but I have greatly enjoyed them breaking from the formulaic ISIS secret agent/detective approach. I mean, I loved that too, but…

That kind of reminds me of Rubber, the 2010 flick about the sentient/murderous tire. Not in any plot points, of course, just in the blend of fairly satirical horror wrapped in what should be a ludicrous premise that works and leads to some interesting bits of humor. Plus they both have sentient objects.

Anyway, this…

Prequels don’t HAVE to do that. See the LOTR series being worked on at Amazon that basically just uses the world as a sandbox or the KOTR games in the Star Wars universe.

Aaaaaaaand...we’re back!

Regardless, I’m glad he seems to be really enjoying life right now.

To be fair, T2 was pretty much just a reskinned Terminator, and that turned out to be one of the best action movies ever put down on film.