Knightriders (1981) is a great movie with a young pre-fame Ed Harris. Directed by George Romero, there are no living dead in it but is rather about a troupe of performers who joust on motorcycles.

Aqua Man, Aqua Man.

If McConaughey ever becomes a politician the way he keeps threatening to, this will be the movie comedians will bring up over and over again, the way they used to bring up Bedtime for Bonzo when they were mocking Reagan.

Finally there’s a real example. And it even predicted that the USA would win! Having the Eastern Bloc’s economy collapse was exactly like having teenagers defeat Soviet forces! Eerie how close they got it!

Well, sort of. It was based on a book (which Altman had already filmed) written by a guy who was an doctor at an actual MASH in Korea so it wasn’t *intended* to be a commentary on Vietnam, but certainly the public (and some of the scriptwriters of episodes) were thinking more about Vietnam than Korea. But even so,…

Except both of those were released *after* the Vietnam war, not during it, so the analogy doesn’t really work.

Also, there’s been massive immigration of Californians to Texas cities (particularly Austin) because “it is more affordable” (and Austin isn’t very much like “Texas” in the popular imagination despite being its capital). Which of course ended up making Austin unaffordable just like previous “hot cities” like Seattle…

“Ask your doctor if Zendaya is right for you!”

Well, Will Hughes is not her supervisor, so...

Agree in general, but remember that the “good guys” were Spartans. They didn’t have democracy (even in the limited sense that Athenians could be said to have had democracy) but had a military government more similar to fascism. So another layer of ickyness to the movie.

That’s weird. There was nothing about the story that made it have to set in Ohio. I could understand if it was filmed in California for cost reasons, but if they were going to go far to film you’d think they’d either go to Ohio to get that authentic Buckeye atmosphere or if they really liked the Vermont setting, just…

We don’t know when he died, though. Rose thinks he’s dead, but she’s not a doctor — people without training commonly think unconscious people are dead — that’s why fear of premature burial was a thing before the 20th century and scientific medicine — and even today you occasionally see news reports of people waking up…

So? Michael Caine was in Jaws: The Revenge, but he didn’t go see it but only enjoyed the house it built.

That was written by Alan Dean Foster (the king of novelizations) even though George Lucas was credited on the cover. Foster always had a wry sense of humor.

“One of us! One of us!” they were chanting.

More realistically, he probably lost consciousness due to hypothermia and then drowned rather than dying directly of hypothermia.

And isn’t a parsec not only a unit of distance but one only used on Earth? And a millennium a unit of time that only makes sense in Earth’s base-ten numbering system? And a falcon a bird that exists only on Earth? Luke and Obi-wan should have said “I don’t know what any of the words you just said mean”.

You are confusing new adaptations of existing source material with remakes, though. A new Dracula or Batman or Godzilla film isn’t a “remake” any more than new movies of Shakespeare’s plays or Dickens’ novels are. Some examples you give like King Kong are genuine remakes, but that demonstrates my point -- they may…

But unlike Cussler he hasn’t made himself a character in his works (yet)! (For those who don’t know, Clive Cussler wrote many shipwreck related books and often the characters went to consult with Cussler himself).