MST3K had a habit of mocking problems (like the "teleporting" scene in Girl in Gold Boots) in the shitty VHS transfers they used as though they were problems with the actual movie. It could be a little frustrating, even when it was funny.

Yeah, I remember being excited to see Part 5 after the batshit insanity of Part 4 (this was during a mini-marathon, which turned out to be boring and kind of depressing). The whole thing was disturbingly cruel and sadistic, even by the standards of a Friday the 13th movie. Also IIRC that one involved "troubled…

The doppelganger was clearly evil from the get-go (including its first appearance in the Lodge), so I have trouble with the idea that Diane had seen it and missed it.

If I were going to play with strangers I feel like trying to play Jason with some panache (the way these writers discuss) would be the best endeavor. The prospect of using voice-chat with any online game anywhere is my Kryptonite. When I play Left 4 Dead I mute the other players' mics. I will use in-game text to…

I always think it's funny when a game's graphics are criticized for looking like a previous console generation. Not because it's an invalid criticism (it's a nice shorthand for "cheap and cheesy"), but because every console generation sells its awesome graphics, and most gaming reviews include the graphics in their…

Yeah, I wouldn't consider Part 2 a scary movie, but Jason stalking and killing the first movie's final girl was both clever and suspenseful, and the ending with his mother's head on a creepy shrine was legitimately unsettling… But also silly. But not as silly as Cory Feldman confusing Jason by chopping his hair and…

I thought I had seen 6, but I have no memory at all of it, so maybe I missed that one. 4 is the only one I would ever watch again. 7 has a loopy enough premise (Carry vs Jason!) but I only remember thr telekinesis effect looking cheap. The first 3 are dogshit. 8 is inexplicably beloved dogshit. Freddy vs Jason is…

"We need less complacency and business as usual, and more teenagers being leaders! You know, the white ones."

SMART TEENAGER ASSUMES HE'S SMARTER THAN EVERYONE, IS ACTUALLY JUST YOUNG AND KIND OF A SHITHEAD. NEWS AT 11.

Oops - I remembered his last name being a Fugitive reference and thought his first name was, too.

I kind of liked Vanilla Sky when I finally got around to seeing it a few years ago. It probably put too much effort into making sense, but it is nicely bonkers.

I would argue that things like Plan 9 and Manos had a similarly bizarre core that's accentuated by a lack of resources and polish. Those movies follow the conventions of their genres but betray an inability to control tone or simulate human behavior (cop scratches his neck with a gun; husband reacts to goat-legged…

I saw Josie and the Pussycats a few years ago, and it was so delightful that I decided to try watching Spice World to see if it was likewise a cheeky cult movie masquerading as pap.

I think conceptually the idea that a movie's prominence on Google, its Rotten Tomatoes score, and a focused assessment of its current opinion among a segment of the public is a reasonable but imperfect way of establishing… something. I guess the bigger issue is that once you include "public opinion" in the metric,…

You know what Michael Crichton could do? Come up with an interesting premise, research the hell out of it, and construct two-thirds of a satisfying story about it. He was really good at those two things. Everything else was hit and miss

I would hold up Wild Wild West as the ne plus ultra of that technique, although really Will Smith was just following Coolio's "write new lyrics to a Stevie Wonder song" example.

I like his summary of John Rambo better.

I love Just One of the Guys. I think it's actually more clever than its reputation (although that could be the "monkeys at typewriters" effect of so much teen movie garbage churning out of Hollywood in the 80s). The basic idea that gender is a performance is pretty interesting, and I thought the movie did a pretty…

I say this elsewhere, but I think it's really weird reading "Diane saw him at her house - he must have raped her" and "he might have visited Audrey while she was in a coma - he must have raped her." And then "Little Horne must be the product of Bob Cooper raping Audrey because he's evil." Like, it's all conceivable…

Also worth noting that the first appearance of Sam/Mike (the One-Armed Man) was in the background of the police station (the morgue IIRC) in the Twin Peaks pilot. Not sure how that matters, doubt it's a coincidence.