I don’t know. I mostly agree with you that his work should be left alone, but I thought “The Call of Cthulhu” from 2005 was pretty fun. It wasn’t scary at all, but they shot it like an old silent movie.

A horror movie where you never see the monster? American audiences will never go for anything like that!

I really wish they’d picked a different story. I think Die Farbe is the best “Colour” adaptation we’re likely to get.

There is a segment of Creepshow starring Steven King that is basically an unofficial remake of “Colour out of Space,” but it wasn’t very good, to say the least

The only “adaptation” I’ve really enjoyed was the Coon and Friends arc on South Park.

Speaking on awards, Dafoe needs a lifetime achievement award.  One of my favorites.

Weirdly with Annihilation doing so well recently, though this is a classic story, an adaptation of it might feel derivative, as it plays with similar themes of alien invasion horror strangeness and I could imagine the effects being somewhat similar to the “shimmer.”

Same thoughts.

I’m upvoting you just for the Ferrara reference. I loved his films as a kid (Driller Killer and Ms. 45 are stone cold exploitation classics) and his films are always interesting. 

He has changed, he just hasn’t gone from a bad person to a good one. He can learn to be more self-sacrificing and less angry while still being a violent racist. Again, the movie ends with him going to a guy’s house to extra-judicially murder him. That’s not the ending you give your morally flawless character.

The racist cop is learning to be a better, more self-sacrificing person, but at no point do they imply that he’s a good person now. He’s on a road trip to exact vigilante justice on a murder suspect, he’s not exactly a saint. 

The concept of Wakanda was cool as hell but the movie itself was meh, like most super hero movies.

Okay putting Deadpool ahead of Black Panther is me just wanting to round it nicely at three, but real talk BP is basically a pretty run of the mill MCU film with a little bit of wokeness sprinkled on top that’s been repeatedly shilled and astroturfed so much you’d think it was the single most important black cultural…

Black Panther had some of the worst CGI on film this year. 

I’m not sure you took away the right lesson out of Three Billboards.

Sarsour, when I asked her about Guereca’s criticism, detailed some of the death threats that she has received

A lot of the Criticism I is not in bad faith. I’m a woc color and I think they all should go. I can’t be with the NOI and be in the women’s march. There are many WOC that can take the lead who aren’t anti-Semitic. But at this point any woc that is on the level wouldn’t want to touch this shit show. Your soft touch…

Why write anything at all, then? Why not just assume your readers already know every point you're thinking of, even if you don’t bother to make it?

“Roupenian’s work declares that there is no fun in reading between the lines, and this kind of obvious symbolism can be grating.”

Ex Hex is my favorite Mary Timony project.