On NPR's obit yesterday they had a clip of Romero saying they learned of MLK's assassination while driving to the premiere (or maybe not the premiere, I can't recall - but he was making the same connection you were).

Good point, and I also don't think zombies were "obscure" before Romero. There was "White Zombie," "I Walked with a Zombie," "King of the Zombies," "Revenge of the Zombies," "The Plague of the Zombies," etc. The fact that "zombie" was used in the title is proof enough that the monster was an exploitable property.

My least favorite Spielberg movie is his short from The Twilight Zone, if that counts.

I recall War of the Worlds being pretty great up until the very last scene (this is a problem with latter-period Spielberg I guess).

I will be standing here in the empty corner of the room assigned to unapologetic fans of the Tintin movie, thanks.

I like that idea! Bring back Short Round, recast him with an actor the same age Jonathan Ke Quan was when he played Short Round in 1984, have Harrison Ford play Indiana Jones, and never address the age discrepancy at all. #WhyIShouldDirectMovies

I saw "Always" in the theater and liked it (but I was 13, and that's the only time I've seen it). Watching "Hook" when it came out was the very first time I realized I was disliking the Steven Spielberg movie that I was watching. I realized not everything he made was going to be good. It was a seminal moment for me as…

The score by John Williams is also one of the best he ever did.

After that film I felt like I needed 300 showers.

I watched OUIJA at about 6am on a Sunday and now I believe that's the perfect time to watch this genre. At 6am on a Sunday, my brain is as stupid as the teens in the movie.

When I saw this trailer I thought it was Chloe Grace Moretz.

I haven't watched the film in a few years, but I also don't recall the scene being that graphic (other than some nudity and lots of writhing around in the sand). I'm skeptical that there was anything hardcore done or shot. It just always struck me as his idea of promoting the authenticity of everything you see in the…

I don't get why anyone would take Jodorowsky literally. Just watch his last two films, his "autobiography." He is a constant teller of tall tales and self mythologizes on the level of Salvador Dali. You have to put his comments in context of everything else about him - his career is built out of the Panic movement he…

I'd like to read that book…there's so little of his writing in English so I really should. His writing for comics is fantastic (the Metabarons being a high point) and I think he actually found his voice as an artist after El Topo and The Holy Mountain (which I like, but I personally think Dance of Reality is better…

I was one of the crowdfund backers of this film and I ended up importing the Blu-ray from the UK because I was getting impatient to see it. I really thought Dance of Reality was better (I think that's his best film - a reconciliation with memories of his father featuring a beautiful score by his son Adan). Endless…

I will say Charles Durning was very inspired in it, Bancroft made a great match for Brooks on screen, and yes, the more chances to make fun of Hitler, the better. It was strange to watch it so close to watching the original, because it really felt like Brooks was just doing his adaptation of a popular play - very…

I forgot about that. I think the phrasing is almost exactly the same in the Mel Brooks bit.

It's funny, we recently watched the original Ernst Lubitch "To Be or Not to Be," which takes place in Poland, but everyone speaks English. Then we watched the Mel Brooks version about a week later, and he begins by having Brooks and Bancroft speaking in Polish, giving up, and switching to English to make it easier on…

What I appreciate most about the POTA series now is that we got a whole franchise of intellectual, political (and, yes, sometimes slow-moving) science fiction films. They couldn't have been released after Star Wars, the recent reboot notwithstanding. So as a kid in the Star Wars era I didn't like them. As an adult I…

Do you remember what the other movie was?