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What an odd comment about Viggo Mortensen. Considering he starred not only in the LoTR trilogy but also in A History of Violence and Eastern Promises (2 outstanding movies) and a whole bunch others besides, I think he has sufficient star power for anybody’s movie.

Agreed. Dracula (the Bram Stoker character) is not really a man, he’s a monster with the core of a man. Remember when he is staked: Stoker has a look of relief and peace pass over his face before his body crumbles. That was the man being freed from eternal, hellish bondage. It’s chilling!

If you get your vamp lore from Dracula (the book, not the 80 bazillion movies/TV shows/comics, etc.), not everyone who was bitten became a vampire. Only those that Dracula chose, and forced to drink a bit of his blood, would become vamps when they died. The rest were just dinner.

I started with 4, have seen all 12 (plus the War Doctor), and my Doctor is ... all of them. (Thanks, Brigadier!)

When The Exorcist came out in 1973, it scared the piss out of a certain 13-year-old Jewish girl of my acquaintance.

I am very fond of Futureworld, but only because I am a giant nerd and lover of 70s-era B movies. It’s a pretty bad movie, not nearly as original or strange as Westworld. But it’s entertaining, and it’s filled with hammy performances by excellent actors (Blythe Danner, Arthur Hill, Stuart Margolin, just for a few

I was thinking about this only yesterday. I think that Westworld works as well as it does in large part because there is no extraneous detail to get bogged down in. You really don’t need to know much about the guests, the resort personnel or the world they live in. There’s just enough information to make the world of

Re: Lost in Space reboot:

You must have read a different book than I did. No such code in the edition of A Wrinkle in Time that I read.

Of course. Not to mention that standards of attractiveness are constantly evolving. I don’t know when you were a child, but in the ‘60s when I was a child, a woman who was 5'7" and 100 lbs. would have been considered tantamount to a concentration camp survivor. Today those same dimensions would get a woman labeled as

What about MY childhood? The one where I loved this book so hard that I wanted everyone in the world to read it? I say that you should go back in time to your childhood and read this book, and love it as much as I did, so that this movie will not just be made, but be the highest-grossing movie ever!

Meg is not ugly! That’s a common mis-remembering of the book. She is awkward, gawky, and plain (in her own words), but Calvin says she has beautiful eyes and her mother remarks that she was as unusual-looking as Meg at her age. She’s an odd duck, but nothing in the book supports making her affirmatively ugly. And, in

I think the real problem is that it is well-nigh impossible to portray the faerie parts of the story in a manner that really reflects their uncanniness. I had a similar problem with the scene where Lady Poole tries to assassinate Norrell. The description in the book is so fascinatingly “other” that I wondered how they

Agreed about Barrett and the Number One character she performed so well. Such a pity we didn’t see more of her.

I agree with your comment. But ... sorry, “Camazotz,” not “Kalamazoo”.

I will reserve judgment on the casting until I see the movie. I’ve seen Oprah Winfrey give some outstanding performances so, in theory, it should be fine. But I’ve always “heard” Mrs. Which as a fundamentally para-human being that can just barely pull itself together to present a human-like form when absolutely

I’m of 2 minds about whether this book would be better adapted as a movie or a TV miniseries. In the movie column, it is a short book and, though it raises some pretty profound issues, it also is a kid’s book. I would hate to see this little gem balloon into a huge monstrosity a la The Hobbit (not that I’m expecting

In theory I liked Pulaski, but I thought the character was poorly served by the writing and, unfortunately, by the performance of Diana Muldaur, whom I otherwise like. She didn’t seem to “get” the character, and came across as abrasive but not in a relatable way (unlike McCoy). It’s been quite awhile since I saw the

I loved Hamill in Kingsmen, but his character was killed off in the first movie. Of course, so was Firth’s, so ...

I didn’t see The Dark Knight, so can’t comment on that. But I agree that while Zemo’s plot is exceedingly comic-book convoluted, in the context of the movie it simply didn’t matter to me. This isn’t Agatha Christie plotting, nor does it have to be.