Agreed, but I still took a Jörmungandr at the trailer.

Backlash is a bitch. A stupid, contrarian bitch.

I really liked the John Legend song and the audition song. Other than that I didn't find them all that memorable, though I enjoyed the choreography.

Oh, Sal, you dance too well.

Tom Hardy and the bear are the only ones having any fun in that movie.

I graduated high school in 2001, so Julia Stiles in 10 Things I Hate About You or Ali Larter in Varsity Blues.

I can't remember if it's from the Say Anything… commentary or the Almost Famous one.

"I'm still a virgin."
"After all this time, Severus?"
"Always."

There are some excellent performances in that movie. Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Patrick Wilson also do some very nice work. Malin Akerman and Matthew Goode are both miscast, but they do give it the old college try.

The movie definitely has its flaws, but at least it strives to be both faithful to the book and a good movie in its own right. The Mars sequence is very well done, due in large part to Crudup's performance as Manhattan.

"There's acid in the beer in the red cups."
*Russell grabs and chugs red cup, punches fan in the arm*
"Topeka…"

Fun fact about that line:

In retrospect, I should've hit the kangaroo thing harder to give it more of an air of absurdity.

"Jack answers the door in a loose Hello Kitty t-shirt and yoga pants, his inherent innocence at odds with his blossoming sexuality. The coquettish tilt of his head as he asks me in is both guileless and subtly seductive, the act of a young joey on the cusp of maturity."

Oh wow, I didn't know that. What a weird thing to do. It's a very Cameron move, I suppose.

Yeah, I don't care for the DC at all. I caught the Hadley's Hope bit on cable a couple years back and was taken aback. It totally ruins the experience of being introduced to the facility with the Marines. I don't think the DC was so much an "alternative cut" as it was "just chuck in everything we shot".

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Thelma & Louise, Black Hawk Down, Matchstick Men, Kingdom of Heaven, and American Gangster are all "mediocre to absolute garbage"?

Really just twenty minutes of blank screen while Abba plays on the soundtrack, as I recall. It's undeniably effective.

It's worth noting how quietly Aliens begins. There's no hot alien action until like an hour into the movie. We get to know the characters and suspense builds on the foreboding abandoned facility. Then everything goes to hell.

It’s not quite that drastic. In the book he seems way more bummed out than pissed off. Douglas’ character was supposed to be a wild great white hunter named “Redbeard”. He was supposed to die for shock value and narrative stakes in the first act. Once Douglas decided he wanted to play the part they had to greatly…