Probably Bernthal should have been kept on retainer as replacement Wolverine and Frank Grillo should have been the Punisher.

The fact it feels weirdly depopulated is my biggest concern. The crowds are the x-factor that Bladerunner's imitators never get right.

This really hits home when you watch the original, John Williams-less trailer. It feels like Logan's Run or something .

The Little Vape Pen Girl.

Let's also not forget Ryuichi Sakamoto as the head of the company they're bagging him for. Both Gibson movies to date have had amazingly eclectic casts.

It's weird because his Terminator movies and Aliens in particular are just endlessly quotable. "Bug hunt," "Stay frosty," "Game over man," "Mostly," "Nuke the site from orbit," "Get away from her you BITCH," and those are just the big ones. Totally throwaway dialogue from that movie has stuck with me for decades.

But we all know it should have been Rinko Kikuchi, the only Japanese actress I can name, whose interest in the role I have presupposed.

Wow, having read that I'm on a mission to track down Away With Words. It somehow flew totally beneath my radar (the point of The Overlook, I guess). But it sounds vaguely similar to the recent Filipino film Ruined Heart, also starring Asano and shot by Doyle. It's a good throwback to that same era, if you haven't…

Good piece about a great film. I try to revisit the 4-hour+ version about once a year. For me, it came along at this particular moment in the 90's when cosmopolitanism and cultural omnivorousness seemed self-evidently cool and laudable. It was of a piece with Wong Kar Wai films, or William Gibson novels, or…

The Angel Dust track list does kind of sum up the Trump Campaign. Crack Hitler, Be Aggressive, Malpractice, Everything's Ruined, Smaller and Smaller.

But does he at some point like punch a guy in the throat with a book? If so, I'm probably still on board.

This sounds good, but I'm not sure it's ever been true of anything.

Guys, I know you know the movie's a jury-rigged retrofit of an aborted TV pilot. Let's not get too precious about it.

Since a couple people have called me out: I like the dreamy atmosphere, I like the Nancy Drew hijinks and the shadowy Hollywood conspiracy stuff. I like the dangling plot threads. I like to imagine that all keeps going, and apparently Lynch did too, so it seems valid enough.