After spending his entire career telling people the goddamn future and nevertheless having to watch them all go merrily skipping into the abyss anyway, he’d earned every inch of that nihilism. He’d earned it ten times over, and I’ll never think less of him for being so bitter near the end of his life. He was decades…

I’d love to see a Rian Johnson movie, or series, or series of movies, unencumbered by the Skywalker Saga and its accompanying baggage and expectations.

Ooh. This makes it sound like Johnson is still slated to return after all. I hope so. I look forward to feeling a great disturbance in the YouTube algorithm, as millions of whiny voices of fanboys will suddenly cry out in terror and will be hilariously silenced.

It was Russell Crowe’s Hollywood break. Stone saw him in Romper Stomper - which is amazing enough that Stone watched that - and insisted he be given a - heh - shot.

I don’t think I fully appreciated who all was in that cast. I saw Sharon Stone as a gunslinger and gave it a bit of the side-eye, but that really is a murderer’s row of character actors.

Yes, watch it now. It’s so violent and very Raimi.

The Quick and the Dead is an underappreciated gem. It’s a simple story and setup with a saloon fully stocked with character actors and future notable ‘A’ listers. Gene Hackman has some of his best scenes in this movie. He’s ruthless and terrifying.

Look, I had never willingly watched a horror movie before Army of Darkness. It was literally my gateway drug to the genre. If it skews more towards the B-movie comedy than the horror, that’s actually to its credit - because I ended up watching the original Evil Dead 1 & 2 after seeing AoD and I never would have had I…

would love to see dicaprio and raimi (and crowe!) work together again.

Even Raimi would say Evil Dead 2 is better then one.  

Blank Check is doing Sam Raimi right now, and they did The Quick and The Dead two weeks ago. They dug into this a little bit - said that Stone was the one that pushed for both Dicaprio and Crowe and how prescient that ended up being.

I’ve always been a Western fan, and The Quick and the Dead was my gateway drug to Sam Raimi. I was lucky enough to catch the movie in the theater during its relatively brief run, but it doesn’t seem to have found its audience until it started showing up on TV. I thought at the time I was just seeing a quirky homage to…

I’d love to read an oral history of TQATD - from the snippets I’ve read here and there on the internet, it sounds like the boys-club studio execs thought they could placate Sharon Stone with a “producer” title in-name-only and then she would shut up and let the men make the decisions, only to find that she was…

Man, I love The Quick and the Dead and Drag Me to Hell. Also thank you for placing the correct Evil Dead at #1.

Who else thought for a second that Noho Hank showed up in the car following Kim?

I mean, an entire production was shut down. People lost their jobs. It might be a little important.

I mean, she’s not wrong. Especially when it came to how she described working with Michael Bay—and then Steven Spielberg demanded she be fired from the Transformers franchise when Fox compared Bay to Hitler, which made some sense at the time, especially given how sensitive Spielberg was about Hitler and the Holocaust…

I heard he repeatedly referred to a female coworker as ‘an ignorant slut’.

“They also believe that projects like Todd Phillips’ Joker are a shining example of how second-billed characters from the DC library can and should be exploited (Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn was another opportunity, though Birds of Prey missed the mark).”

I’m just so sick of all this. Marvel’s already swallowed pop culture whole, we don’t need more fucking superheroes.