It’s common knowledge that Kate Winslet herself nearly drowned during the filming of Titanic, now here Cameron is trying it again 20 years later - it’s starting to seem like the dude has some kind of a kink for drowning people.

Aliens to a much much lesser degree. The stuff that was cut wasn’t horrible but was largely unnecessary. We didn’t need to have it spelled out how a facehugger got back to the colony and the sentry guns were gratuitous military porn (and I say that as someone who is fine with military porn). The scene where Ripley…

That’s really cool! I don’t think that was even on my radar at the time.

Sometimes, during these difficult times, like a bowel movement, one needs a hand to hold for comfort.

I always liked that movie too. I bet that scene with his wedding band was a very hard days work.

I was even more disturbed by the piece of regular old carpet under the urinal in the other men’s room. Best case scenario is that its part of a booby trap and is just lo0sely covering a deep pit.

Both Harris and Cameron almost drowned filming that movie. Form what I remember Harris had a malfunction with his air tank, and in Cameron’s case the PA that was supposed to be monitoring/changing his air tanks while he was directing scenes at the bottom of their giant dive pool went on break and while he was off the…

First, love the Sneetches reference.

In fairness Abyss might just be the most insane undertaking in modern film making. The underwater stuff taken in isolation is tricky enough but you can see where they were coming from considering where technology was at in 1988. Then add in a tank the size of a nuclear plant’s primary reactor containment vessel…

The one on the left looks taped shut, so maybe just out of order labels

With labels on them.  The pics aren’t clear enough to read what they say and the mystery will haunt me for all my days

There’s also a character called Dan O’Bannon, named for Carpenter’s Dark Star buddy!

On Twitter, he recently noted that DC Comics gave him “carte blanche” to do what he wanted with the movie, saying one of the things he wanted the company to agree to before he signed on was that “no character was protected by DC.”

He’s a vampire!

The only Traven book I’ve read is THE DEATH SHIP and it’s great. A big part of the book that Vago’s summary doesn’t mention is that it’s about people who got screwed by the formation of modern bureaucratic states and immigration laws after WW1: the narrator and other workers on the death ship are legally unable to…

Yes, there’s really two ways to interpret it. The benevolent one : Look, they’re lampshading the age difference, they say that it’s not okay, that’s something. And the less benevolent one : “I’m only attracted to 16 years old, not to 15,5 years old, what kind of monster do you think I am”. Same thing with Magnum…

Then consider they sold their catalogue in 1986, exactly when every household in the country started buying VCRs.

It’s also worth noting that this franchise is basically the only thing keeping the lights on at MGM. Is it worth that price to streaming services? Fuck no, but MGM can’t afford to accept what it is worth to streaming services, and they’re probably going to be lucky if they can hang on long enough through the pandemic …