My impression was she was fired because the term was used "on her watch", so they brought in Principal PC to replace her.

I thought Principal Victoria got fired because one of the kids used the term 'Hot Cosby'. No?

Maher is such an insufferable butthead.

I thought Spielberg was opposed to remakes of his own films. Although Poltergeist just happened, so…

Man, they really missed an obvious one: Bruce Willis for Red 2. Skin-crawlingly awful.

Dunno, I don't work in VFX. But probably. I mean, they still couldn't avoid rubber limbs fifteen years later in Blade II, so imagine the difficulties in 1987.

It definitely wasn't cutting edge, but it was far from "inexcusably shitty" for the mid '80s.

For 1987? Not really. The video is a weird mishmash of things that looked crap at the time and things that didn't particularly. Also comparing straight-to-video things like Shark Attack 3 to blockbusters from the same period like The Mummy Returns isn't fair.

The only Cimino film I've seen is The Deer Hunter, but based on that alone I'd say he was talented. He did get started later than many of his peers. But you said he lied about his age. I'm saying, he's in the same age bracket as those other New Hollywood directors. A bit older than some, a bit younger than others. Or…

Huh? That's an odd anecdote. He's the same age as Coppola, born in 1939. De Palma was born 1940, Scorsese 1942, Lucas 1944. He was even younger than some of the other big New Hollywood directors: Altman (1925), Lumet (1924), Allen (1930), Friedkin (1935), for example.

No, because in context it's clear that what he's doing is backpedalling on what could be (and was widely) perceived to be shitting on Alien 3 & 4. I wouldn't be surprised if he got his wrist slapped for that. It's clear in the context of his other quotes (and Weaver's) that what he's saying here is simply "those films…

1992’s Alien 3, which Blomkamp has repeatedly asserted his film won’t ignore or negate

Erm… yes, but if he ignored Alien 4 and picked up after Alien 3 then Ripley (and Hicks) would be dead.

By the way a lot of people have reacted I think this is actually what they expect him to do.

This is exactly what he's saying. He's saying, "I don't want anything to do with those films but they'll still be there for anyone who likes them." Proof? The same day that he did this interview with AlloCiné he told The Guardian "that he would “categorically” rule out any return for the cloned version of Ripley". He…