I mean, if “yourself” is “a shill,” then the world will totally reward you for “just being yourself,” I guess.

My wife and I are moving to Portland later this year (from Los Angeles), and we keep trying to pressure non-white friends to join us, just so that we won’t feel awash in a sea of whiteness.

The second one is kind of an interesting mess. It’s trying to be a slasher movie, an examination of PTSD, and an expressionist art film. Mostly, I feel like where it fails is in the slasher movie department; if Zombie had just made it an expressionist art film about PTSD with Halloween as its context, it might have…

I generally agree with you in theory, and yet I have to say that TLJ did give me - a fan since 1983, who saw all three on the big screen at that time -did give me that same sense of wonder and excitement. I didn’t expect it to, and I don’t expect Star Wars to ever do so again, but for those couple of hours, I guess I…

I know it’s not the point, but how come this guy can pronounce “diegetic” correctly, but not “diegesis”?

Honestly, parts of TLJ did recapture that feeling for me.

Ditto. TLJ was the first time since 1983 that I sat in a theater and felt like I was having the pure experience of watching new Star Wars, rather than just somebody’s efforts to re-capture past Star Wars. I got sick and tired a long time ago (but right here, in this galaxy) of people telling me that my love of TLJ…

I recognize that filmmaking is a business. I work in said business, and am confront daily with how much more about the bottom line it is that about creativity and storytelling. I accept that studio heads will need to think about movies entirely in terms of what will work out in the best interests of stockholders.

It is often directed towards men now, yes, in a bro-y culture where it’s considered even more insulting when directed at those men because the word is gendered female. So, it’s still managing to insult women in that context.

I suppose it’s possible that blustering frat boys use “badass” to describe their own behavior, but they probably also describe it as “awesome” or “cool” or “great,” and that doesn’t make all of those terms verboten.

If the word “badass” in any way refers to “white hard-partying, blustering frat boy culture,” then I and a lot of other people have been using it wrong for a long time, because that’s a long way from anything I’d ever call “badass.”

I don’t think Phillips was intentionally courting those kinds of people with his comments; I think he just thoughtlessly played into exactly their rhetoric.

Phillips’ comments were defensively asinine.

In the case of Megalon, the international dub was the only one created. Good point about the different cut, though.

One could make the case that it’s a 17 film collection anyway, since the radically altered US releases of two of the films will be present, and both feature extensive footage shot exclusively for that market subsequent to production of the Japanese originals.

Well, Godzilla vs. Megalon and Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster will kinda take the title simultaneously, with the caveat that in the case of Sea Monster it’ll be exclusively with a different audio track, while the Megalon dub will be consistent between MST3K and Criterion.

You know, because that kind of detail is very,…

I desperately want “Bloom got a bonobo, but he is just fine” to be a lyric in a rock song.

I see your point.

It’s marrying elements of two different things. Isn’t that what a “mash-up” is?

Not betting on it or anything, but are you the same Doctor Professor who is active in online Godzilla fandom?