I won’t ruin your bliss about the subject at the moment, but if your curiosity gets the better of you, read up on the Twilight Zone Movie.

Top Ten Slideshows! 

I’ll go the medical examiner route. Tamara Tunie and Elizabeth Rodgers on Law & Order, and Linda Fiorentino in Men in Black. Rowr.

Just rewatched it a few days ago, and you’re right, it really is a fantastic movie.  It actively makes me mad that so many John Landis movies are so good, since he is such an unrepentantly awful person.

Mine was Real Genius, except in high school.

For whatever reason, I was thinking about Vertigo the other day and realized Judy’s been made over as Madeline by two men: Gavin and Scottie. She might have a bit more agency in the Gavin situation since she accepted the job, but it’s still a bit unnerving to think how much she’s willing to sell herself, and that’s her…

Same. I really liked the character and I remain incredibly disappointed that the actress turned out to be such a big piece of shit.

exactly. read the originals & discuss how much things have changed.

The language that Mark Twain used seems selected specifically to be offensive - not to the people who were the fictional targets in the book, but to the real live people who used that language in their daily lives. To expose them as ignorant, nasty human beings who used that language to denigrate others.

I understand why these IP owners want to keep these books on cultural life support by hiding (some) of the authors’ sins ($$$$$$$$$$$$$$) but it feels anti-historical to do so. The books of both of these men were written for specific people and implicitly not for others. Let today’s kids and other readers find other,…

Eh, I’m in the slap on a foreword/disclaimer but leave the text largely as-is* camp on this one. Fleming was a racist, misogynist, imperialist dinosaur and so was his creation. Not much use in pretending otherwise.

Editing the past to make it appear less racist seems much more dangerous than just leaving the books alone.

Is it weird that the I think the premise at least has some potential? A Bond story from the girl’s POV about how some crazy spy nonsense suddenly barged into her life isn’t the worst idea.

I’m becoming a little obsessed with where the idea that Alligator takes place in Chicago comes from. It’s not in the movie. The movie is shot in LA, uses LA place names, and features LA maps. A couple details suggest that the movie was intended to be set in Missouri (the prologue, the police cars), but the filmmakers…

First of all, good list, the only one I thought left off was The Edge. Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins engaged in Shakespearean treachery but that taking a backseat to fighting off a pretty unstoppable grizzly?  Pretty great actual creature feature.
The semi-serious one, Black Sheep a pretty classic animal horror…

In the many, many places of the world where there are lots of Chinese people and not a lot of Jews, yes. “Big Nose” for white people is far from an unknown pejorative. Should someone have flagged the credit? Also definitely (leaving aside the possible Jewish connection, seems like pejorative terms for characters is a…

lol all that waiting and hype and it’s still the same old shit - we’re gonna do a superman and a batman and another batman and maybe a girl superman if i don’t get fired first.

He needs a Jimmy-Stewart-in-Vertigo phase.

Who we’ve lost so far in 2023.

And peoples favorite change as they get older too. I loved the Outside album when it came out, but I always thought the track “Strangers When We Meet” felt tacked on to the end. I was 25 when Outside came out and now I’m about the age Bowie was when he put out that version of “Strangers When We Meet”. Now the lyrics…