Glad this thing just did ok at the box office. Maybe it will just end up in the remainder bin of obscurity at Walmart beside the Total Recall and Robocop remakes.

Started reading Joe Hill's NOS4A2. Good so far. Saw Mad Max: Fury Road on tuesday night. Loved it, but screwed my sleep schedule for the rest of the week. Had to pass on both the Survivor finale and the last ever Letterman. So exhausted.

You' re welcome. Always glad to help.

No doubt. But those scenes are what made it memorable to me. One only has to compare the original version of The Haunting to its shit-show remake. Bigger and louder is not always better.

I so remember the look of wonder on the actors faces when the "light ghosts" descend the stairs for the first time. There is also a sense of quietness that separates the first half of the film from the more frantic final hour. Particularly the scenes with Beatrice Straight and the boy. I doubt they can re-create that…

So true. So many good original stories out there to tell. Just lazy film-making. I will rent this from my local library. Hollywood gets none of my money for this. Wish others would do the same.

It has become such a cliche now. It has replaced the old school jump scare with the cat, followed by the real killer gag.

As soon as I saw the trailer and the kid gets pulled up the stairs by his feet…I am out on this one. Fuck. That. Tired. Shit.

Well said. Less is more doesn't exist in new Hollywood.

So much of what I think it makes it still great is the lack of CGI. So many movies today are so crammed full of effects that, to me anyway, pulls you away from the characters and the story. If they made Raiders today, that truck chase would have also had planes dropping computer-generated bombs on Indy as he jumped…

Wow. You seem to be on a real 1984 movie kick there. Was a great year for movies though. For me anyway. And the behind the scenes drama behind the making of Cotton Club is sometimes better than the stuff on screen.

Watched 'Raiders' again last night. One of the few films my Mom took me to when I was a kid. Made me miss her even more. On a side note: what a great fucking streak Harrison Ford was on in the early '80s. One of the criticisms of 'Jedi' was that Ford looked bored with his role as Han Solo. He had just finished…

I am bringing up well worn territory with the rumours of the inspiration for 'You Oughta Know', but shit she was in her late teens in the early '90s. Her rage in the song resonated with girls dumped by older guys who should have known better.

Love 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' The whole cast is great and the effects are awesome for the late '70s.

Started reading 'Strange Son', by Portia Iverson. I seem to be drawn to these stories of optimism in the face of devastating illness or disability. In the past year I have read 'The Spark' (autism) and both books by Michael J. Fox.

My wife watches 19 Kids… and I have to hear about it afterwards. At this point, the Duggars have become a baby business. Once the parents stopped pushing out babies of their own, it was the kids time to take over the corporation. One child gets married and within a few months, boom!, baby on the way. By the time that…

I have new respect for the creators of Arthur when they did an episode about a new kid in school who had Asperger's. My son has autism and his teachers were able to use the episode to teach his classmates about his condition.

Didn't the guys who made Blair Witch Project also get some sort of TV deal way back when? Good to see that turned out well for them.

My kids love Backyardigans and Sesame Street. We decided very early on that there would be no Barney in our house, and have been largely successful. My son is autistic and seems to be gravitating more to stuff like Jeopardy. Some of the stuff on Disney XD is ok.

I was going to call it Kraft Dinner, but was thinking no one who know what the fuck I was talking about.