Oh, no, @ancientshenanigan:disqus ! At least the German television version of Hamlet had interesting production design, and some good readings of Shakespeare.

@ironmikesharke:disqus - I just saw MST3K's evisceration of Castle of Fu Manchu on Comet Channel, and I'd give it to @yumzux:disqus . It was really, truly bad, and almost painful to watch.

@avclub-e3f5ab7f02122f95b801e13e2c586d6a:disqus , @ironmikesharke:disqus, @ionchef:disqus and @avclub-c600b4b49faa3a2a165242e90ca21ac3:disqus - no.

Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu is the dictionary definition of “problematic.” Created in 1913, the character is “yellow peril” personified, a renegade Chinese warlord and evil genius bent on world domination and the extermination of the white race. His nemesis: resourceful Scotland Yard commissioner Nayland Smith, who stands…

Okay, @battybrain:disqus - the point of the article was to solicit opinions ("What Artist You Dislike Made Something You Love?"), so I gave mine on Gary Oldman.

That's a JOKE, Son!

You're s'posed to laugh!

1888, according to The Bouffant of All Knowledge Wikipedia - that was when Eastman Kodak was formed, to sell cheap cameras and much less cheap film and developing services, @avclub-e0b2ce3685c37ff452b211bd8b6b1b5c:disqus .

@A Gibbon Named Tom:disqus - in the Elizabethan Era, Negros were more "exotic" than "inferior", since few Northern Europeans had ever seen a Negro. Somebody like Martha, who spoke English fluently, wore a well-tailored if exotic clothes (yep, in the early 1600s tight-fitting jeans and a tailored leather jacket with…

Speaking of which, @disqus_Nxjp8ql7GM:disqus - the season opener of Angie Tribeca lampooned this scene hilariously! While Angie's in the dark the killer, wearing night vision goggles, is stroking her hair, writing "Dork" on her face in Ultraviolet ink, doing all these things she absolutely should notice but doesn't.

@Afghamistam:disqus - I think I already did by suggesting you try the BBC Miniseries version of Tinker Tailor to gauge Guinness's performance against Oldman's.

Okay, @battybrain:disqus - can we go with "I think Gary Oldman is a bad actor", so it's my opinion and not a fact?

More than Thomas Harris, apparently, @avclub-b0cf188d74589db9b23d5d277238a929:disqus !

Huh - I thought it was the other way around, @preterite:disqus .

@udjibbom:disqus - you give me hope.

That's kind of like finding out Peter Capaldi and Craig Ferguson were in a punk band together, @disqus_QLvv80xvFq:disqus.

Didn't he also play a crooked FBI Agent on Justified, who got shot dead by his old mob buddy - just out of the blue?

How is that, @avclub-912e79cd13c64069d91da65d62fbb78c:disqus ? The Frankenheimer original is one of my favorite dark comedies of all time, so I wasn't that eager to see the remake. (Also, I'd recently seen The Jackal, the remake of Day of the Jackal, which would put you off remakes forever.)

@spencersgift:disqus and @avclub-32a2e71c97df5281f1324db72c73a59a:disqus - it looked just like my youngest brother's house, or the houses of some of my more hillbilly in-laws.

Sometimes a Pen is just a Pen-is, @disqus_U8BHPpnIe3:disqus ?

He got paid very well, @avclub-e8b880356038be0e01bc4f8bb8a6bc77:disqus - though I think he originally intended to write a sequel, but the pressure for more about Lecter and more making Lecter sympathetic just caused him to lock up for several years, until his publisher basically told him that.