I don't know. The stories were pretty intense. Lots of murder and cannibalism. I particularly remember little-me being terrified of the scarecrow/doll/dummy that skinned its creator and left the hide to dry in the sun.

I don't know. Midwesterners have that way of pronouncing "a's" that I've never heard from a British person. I think British people are more coping tv-American-English.

It's not a bad way to cover up slips. Sort of a more subtle version of adopting a French accent to hide your real accent.

It's okay? It has that weird I-have-to-pull-my-jaw-oddly-to-flatten-my-vowels quality though.

I think it's nice though that they use their "powers" to explore their less commercial characters.

I suspect the similarities work in their favor. RDJ might not be willing to be Iron Man forever. Strange can fill his place.

Oof. No. But then I hate sweating. The constant stink of rotting vegitation in Houston and how the air actually had a taste… I'd much rather have to bundle up or stay in doors.

She accidentally let the sun into his weird underground pyramid place. June certainly seems to be the worst I guess since she, ostensibly, was a trained archeologist.

I thought it was the same stories just with less insanely scary illustrations?

So now it's not that they are hypocrites, it's that their goals are overly ambitious?

My problem was that the monologues actually sounded, to me, like a parody of Shirley Jackson. They just went on and on and used "spooky" vocabulary, but they didn't actually say anything particularly scary or profound.

In a pre-industrial colonial society on the edge of the wilderness a new dress and butter (high fat content, requires a milchcow) are both enormous luxuries. I liked that the filmmakers understood the past so well.

Award for worst archeologist this year goes to Moira Mctaggart or June Moon?

The soundtrack really irritated me. It felt like the movie was screaming, "Love MEEEEE!" right into my ear.

Wow really? The direction didn't seem to be that remarkable to me. And the choppy editing, the plotting that was both predictable and nonsensical, and the intrusive soundtrack…

Everyone acted as Clinton's lawyers?

Depends on how he got there. Maybe he took the long way around…

Not for technique maybe but if they are also showing how it can express ideas or advance a story, maybe it makes sense to include it.

I can understand that - sadness makes you go to ground. But I do think it can be such a help. Not only sharing sadness, but also just the day to day experiences of people navigating the process.

True. But I don't think you give even the Massachusetts colony enough credit there. Just being able to say, "Go do your heresy elsewhere, you fiend," was pretty great considering how murderous old Europe was about even slight religious variation.