@avclub-68e8e6860586596c1e7a37aa64d3fba4:disqus I think I read that one. Is that the one where… ah… the narrator says he can never eat Calamari again? Yeah, what the fuck, Chuck?

@AlainChristian:disqus I think that was the joke @avclub-bc68599029928a93ff775e686c3be325:disqus was making.

Because the war in Afghanistan is the closest the US has come to another Vietnam War, and comparisons between the two are a mainstay of popular political discourse, however tenuously founded.

I was just lolling, not making any judgment calls. I assumed you were speaking in jest.

I totally agree, but I also think anything worth spending $200 million on is worth doing right, even if the source material is silly.

LOL at dude named after Afghanistan wishing for another Vietnam.

Oh ye of little faith.

No no, it should be sitting on the steps of a subway station.

Chief?

He would certainly usurp the "Party Dude" title.

Yertle the Alien doesn't have the same ring to it.

I feel physically ill.

Maybe your parents were big Phil Tippet fans?

The Thing was great, but it featured a very external menace: there is a monster disguised as one of your buddies, and it's gonna get you. Cronenberg's recurrent theme is internal menace: your own body/mind turns against you, you are the monster. For a story about a woman whose pregnancy is killing her, he's the…

@avclub-e9210afab31a459be670627b05ef9d9b:disqus Huh? The animated film was feature length, and it actually had to cut some stuff.

I wanted Cronenberg to direct Breaking Dawn for the extreme body horror birth, but this is the next best option.

Them other auteurs don't know how to act.

Who controls the past controls the future.

Aliens.

Now that's what I'm talkin' 'bout.