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I once ran a Call of Cthulhu campaign off the cuff that was based on Stephen King's Pet Sematary. None of my friends had read it yet and I scared the crap out of them. The unseen Wendigo lent itself to Lovecraftian weirdness particularly well.

Doesn't Peter order a salad at the end of that episode, only to notice the waiter's broad grin a little too late?

Good call. Your memory is better than mine. I just remember it had something to do with keeping the actor off the next picture because the last one had bombed. It's also where I learned what "friend of Dorothy" meant.

Well, so far there have been 7 Star Wars films, with the 8th coming in December.

Harry Potter already has 8, with a 9th this fall. And they're already talking about turning the stage play into a freaking trilogy. I think Star Wars still has some leeway yet.

"If writing is so hard, why do Ben Affleck and Matt Damon both have Oscars?"

And the capper is when Peter mouths "I love you" to the screenwriter for saving his behind.

As I recall, didn't he seduce the actor in order to trigger a "morals clause" to get him out of a pay-or-play contract, because his last film had just bombed?

This show's heart was black as ebony in a coal mine at midnight.

I loved this show. I bought the DVD to see the unreleased episodes because our cable service didn't get FX.

My favorite line was from an episode where Peter attends a cancer benefit to improve his image. His companion says something about how noble the whole thing is and Peter shoots back (paraphrasing): "You think

Twice as dangerous, I've heard.

Yeah, but when Eli Wallach spouted those puns, they killed!

The original version of the film was a faux-documentary and the found footage stuff was supposed to be a brief coda. They decided to make the found footage the entire film, and later showed the documentary on, I think, Sci-Fi. It's an extra on the DVD.

While the filmmakers made the right choice, the documentary is

Pure coincidence. I've never seen RLM's review. Funny.

After seeing the film, I thought, at a minimum, that Heather Donahue had a future in films.

Then not long after that I saw her playing a hostess in a Steak and Shake commercial. And I think that's the last thing I ever saw her in.

We also have Davy Jones' popularity with the Monkees to thank for forcing the other Davy Jones to change his name to the much more appropriate David Bowie.

It's cute how he takes pains to distinguish Silver Age DC continuity. Modern comics pay lip service to the concept and then scrap it whenever it suits them.

At least the classics had the decency to admit they were rebooting every issue.

The Tick hit the ground running, but in most cases, you're right. I liked The Grinder and Don't Trust the B - both of which dealt with the reaction of regular folk to outsize personalities - so the change in show runners might actually help in this case.

I'm willing to give this a shot, but the scenes I've seen so far didn't do much for me. Like the reviewer says, there's something crazier lurking beneath that's trying to get out. I hope it embraces the weirdness. But then again, that didn't much help Fox's Tick series, which this most resembles to me.

I saw Terminator opening weekend. My buddies and I only knew Arnold from the Conan flicks, so we weren't expecting much. It's since become a cliché, but the "I'll be back" line absolutely killed right from the start.

When we were leaving the theater, I joked to my friends that the leads were so lame, I was kind

As I recall, it was Cameron's bragging to someone that he had gotten the idea from Soldier that got him in hot water.

I've always thought it funny that Cameron has since been known as the most expensive filmmaker out there (though every penny goes on screen and they always make their money back). Movies like Aliens and Terminator are classic Corman "squeeze every dime till it screams" moviemaking.