And yet you left out a viable semicolon from this comment!

I’m sure I’m biased as a result of having grown up with this movie since I was a very small child, but I love the ending, not least of all because it denies the audience closure and does not respect in the least any affection they might have formed for the characters.

I actually find the “disconnected” statement odd. As a lifelong horror fan, I find the slasher subset of the genre appealing precisely because I am engaged, I care about the victims and feel fear and pain with them. If I’m not connected, then the movie has failed me. It’s a genre that, at its best, is deeply rooted in…

I am friends with a nurse at that hospital who has informed me that Vasquez died of a different respiratory issue, and did not have COVID.

I’m definitely not trying to downplay the horror this disease has wrought and continues to work. It’s goddamned awful. But this specific case seems to be a different awful thing.

This has never struck me as a plot hole. How clear is your memory going to be of the face of someone you briefly knew thirty years ago? And what normal human brain is even going to conceive of some connection between this long-past figure and your teenage son, when he EVENTUALLY begins to resemble him?

Remember him? Sure. Have a perfect memory of his face decades later, without the aid of photographs? Not so likely.

Just gonna use this as an excuse to post about my dream Bond movie, which I am confident I could never, ever, ever get financed:

No mention of Kill, Baby... Kill, the Mario Bava movie from which Fellini lifted the creepy blonde girl with the white ball?

Thank you for a very thorough and thoughtful reply!

What an unprovokedly snotty, condescending response.

The opening paragraph of this review reminded me of a college creative writing professor I had who cited this story as her “the one everyone should learn how to write based on,” and took a very snooty attitude toward any students who contemplated lowering ourselves to mere genre work...

First off, detail nitpick. The Others was a largely Spanish production, so it doesn’t really count as part of “Hollywood’s then ongoing pillaging of Spanish horror films and directors.” This was just a Spanish filmmaker making a Spanish movie intended for an international audience.

When I saw this on the big screen, the reels were projected in the wrong order, so the movie played 1-4-3-2-5. It was intriguing, and I was terribly disappointed when I saw the movie in its intended sequence.

You’re not wrong. The claim that this common misquote only dates back 25 years is absurd.

I clicked on this article because the headline said “The Goops,” and I assumed it was about the band. I was like, “Wait, they’re still thing?” I actually got kind f excited.

Millennial initially referred not those born around the millennium, but those who started college at or shortly after the turn of the millennium. I tend to self-identify as Gen-Y or The MTV Generation, a fairly narrow window between the two longer-lasting groups on Gen X and Millennial.

I’ve also been told that, based…

Maybe because that could be read as positing circumcision as the default, with non-circumcision requiring a modifier?

Bart’s bad behavior doesn’t cause the friction; Ned’s mentoring of Bart causes it, but the emotional reasons for that are given no explanation at all. Either way, though, in well crafted character-driven drama (which is what The Simpsons historically was first and foremost), the characters’ underlying relationships…

The point was that it is external to the Bart/Homer dynamic.

It’s probably gotta be Return of the Living Dead. That thing is wall-to-wall lines that are useful in everyday conversations.