Another more obvious point to make is that if these HK films were lifting from Evil Dead, generally speaking they’d likely be far more overt and direct in their imitation, haha. We’d have had Anthony Wong in an exact copy of Bruce Campbell’s outfit or something, if it was deliberate!

The Evil Dead also had a direct influence on a whole string of Hong Kong films, some involving hopping vampires and others more directly borrowing Raimi’s high-speed tracking shots and tree demons.

I had the same reaction. Never heard of them ever saying it was to “raise awareness”, they didn’t give a shit about stuff like that. It was purely to piss off older folks and to cause reactions (especially in that time, where a lot of the older generation they were rebelling against fought against the nazis).

One thing I can’t stand is when people try extra hard to make people sound arrogant just for giving an opinion. “Oooooh, Mr. Famous Person think us plebes need him to tell us what to think.” It’s like when people say someone is “lecturing.”

The latest actor who no one asked to weigh in on this but felt the need to anyway is Game of Thrones’ Ciarán Hinds...

Can confirm. A friend in the industry (not someone famous, someone behind the scenes) says the only things worth going to are the ones that serve alcohol. And even those can get tedious. 

Exactly.  Actors go to the Golden Globes for a good time because they have an open bar 

Hugh’s got a big budget movie coming out in a couple weeks. He may have been told he had to attend on the off chance the press asked about D&D(doubtful)

Look, I clicked and even commented on the red carpet post but that doesn’t mean it’s not super bizarre to see this site posting about, like, celebrity outfits??? It just didn’t used to be like this here. 

Each are great casting for their roles in isolation, guessing they didn’t screen test them together.

One of my favorite parts about the original was being slapped in the face over and over with ridiculous events that are covered up with “what are you going to do?  Wesley owns the sheriff.”  Like driving a monster truck through a car dealership in front of a few hundred witnesses. 

Why the snark, and passive aggressive vitriol?!

1. Agreed. I’ve read works translated from Ancient Greek using “modern” American English, where the translator had a good enough sense of the language to be able to translate the work into English that had the same feeling as the original words did. But even doing that, it isn’t possible to erase elements like…

Quite right. I read Heart of Darkness in the early 90s, but it was an edition from my local library that included Chinua Achebe’s famous essay about why he thought it was a racist book. I read both, and although I didn’t necessarily agree with all of Achebe’s arguments, it certainly made me think far more critically…

“So what does that make us?”

What a coincidence. So was watching Divergent.

I have felt for a while now that critically analysing horror films as sociopolitical commentaries has actually created a class of quite lazy horror filmmakers

Can someone explain to me why a director’s opinion on Marvel films is ALWAYS supposed to specifically or uniquely significant?

That’s pretty fair. I’ve mostly liked it so far, but they’ve zipped so quickly through the Daemon/Rhaenyra scenes that I’m having a hard time getting any sense of what the actual emotions between the two of them are.

You’ve articulated my issue with the show. They are jumping forward in time so frequently that they aren’t properly setting up the chessboard. Criston and Rhaenyra slept together in last week’s installment, and this week, Criston goes postal, without much set-up other than one scene in which he asks Rhaenyra to run…