This may be a stretch, but I feel like the way all the electricity in the office started flickering during the energy vampire duel might have been a reference to LIFEFORCE. Even though there were no lightning bolts, and they both had their clothes on.

I know I’m probably not literally the only person who liked the new movie a lot and thought it was an improvement over the 1989 one in every way, but I’m the only one I’ve seen online so far (which makes me feel a little weird for having recommended it to people; will they all hate it)?

Vampires want to go to Oklahoma, as seen in Near Dark.

I still fix little things on WP once in a while, but I’ll never again try to keep a specific page up the way I think it should be. That way lies madness.

You wouldn’t be “slowly stretched” except from the perspective of an outside observer. For you, time would seem to pass normally and you’d be torn apart pretty fast - although more likely you wouldn’t survive long enough to get that close, as black holes are likely to be surrounded by lots of super-heated matter that…

I know the cell phone thing is mostly a joke, but it’s still super misleading to use the word “radiation” that way in the context of a thing about Chernobyl. Phones emit radio waves, which technically are electromagnetic radiation— but so is light. Nothing to do with ionizing radiation, the cancer-causing kind, which…

The ones I remember are 1. aftermath of a plane crash (that part might’ve just been practical, not sure), 2. guy fighting with Api and vanishing in the middle of the fight scene, 3. trippy star-flight effect, 4. matte-painting alien sky with animation of a planet rising.

For what it’s worth, Coherence actually gets much better in the last half-hour or so, to the point where even though I didn’t like the first two-thirds at all I ended up thinking it was worthwhile. Basically, when they had everyone just hanging around together improvising vague dialogue on the theme of “Hey, what’s…

Well, who knows, but I liked both Resolution and The Endless a lot. If I’d seen them in the reverse order I can easily imagine being curious about those guys when they appeared in The Endless, and enjoying the chance to see more of their story.

It’s great, but it does have some non-trivial visual effects.

Well yeah, Tywin does what he wants, but my point was just that if you take a horse pretty much anywhere, there’s a strong chance that the horse will shit there and you can’t really tell it not to.

I’ve seen his first three features and I like them all a lot, though I can totally get why to some people they would just seem cheap and slow. For better or worse I feel like there’s always a really specific vision and personality there. About 85% of HABIT is one of my favorite horror movies ever, but then there’s abou…

I’ve been listening to his director’s commentary on some of his movies and he’s the same way, just super self-deprecating while he praises everyone else. It’s a weird effect because his movies are very ambitious, he clearly has things he wants to say, but in the commentary he’s sort of like “So, I was trying to say…

The horseshit moment wasn’t really “Tywin allowing his horse to shit in the throne room” so much as “Joffrey and Cersei allowing Tywin to ride a horse into the throne room, where of course it takes a shit, because it is a horse.”

Great moment when the people on the battlements see that insane fireball go up, and Tyrion looks like he’s thinking “holy fuck what did we just do, is this even allowed to happen” while the alchemist is like “YEAH BABY!”

Well, sure, it’s one of many differences. But I don’t think it was about making Dany more sympathetic, because it doesn’t really make a difference in that regard. In both the book and the show, it’s clear that once Mirri got to the blood-magic ritual, she was absolutely out for revenge and meant to do what she did,…

I remember very frustrating arguments between book readers and show watchers about that first point. I agree that it’s pretty clear in the book that Mirri was just trying to do her damn job regarding Drogo’s wound, but the show is picking up the pace at this point so it skips the dialogue about how he didn’t follow…

That’s not just a superhero thing though, it’s been happening for more than 40 years. Look at Alec Guinness.

So, maybe reviews should only be commented on by commenters who have a baseline level of receptivity to the review?

Or...?