How can you sleep?

Is there a confirmation bias in not believing the hype?

There should be more fact checking in hip hop. I always wondered how insane in the membrane Cyprus Hill really were.

It's more than that tho. Hating Prometheus, mocking it, refusing to suspend disbelief, nit picking a film that was admittedly a 3/5 movie, all became a web 'thing'. Reason and rationality have little to do with it.

You've heard of suspension of disbelief. Most others haven't.

I think it's indicative of the way movies have changed and the way young people engage with them. They almost lost their minds at the glacial pace of 2001 and were utterly mystified by Upstream Color. On the other hand the original Japanese Godzilla plays well as does the student's absolute favorite, Children of Men.

It was hardly true when it was made. That's what made the 50s styling so bizarre.

I screened Alien in my sci fi cinema class and for most of those who bothered to turn up it was a chance to chit chat and Facebook (despite my 'no phones or computers in screenings' rule). In the later tutorial many of the students expressed the view that they recognized the importance of the film but it was a) slow…

Bawriz.

Once you said the lines weren't in Russian inflected English that's all I could hear.

I loved Spy magazine, from where 'short fingered vulgarian' was coined. That and 'leathery survivor' are still part of my personal lexicon.

Is Twitter on the internet?

Cue the Big Ear Family sketch.

The manifesto part was fine, it was the unbelievably pretentious and overwrought direction that bothered me.

"Posited"? Are you sure about that?

I've seen this as an art installation and it's unbearable.

Directed by Lars von Trier. You know what I'm saying.

PG13? Can't wait!

I guess it's all about quickly getting through the stuff the audience is going to already know and what changes or differences a particular treatment of a well known subgenre is going to use. One film that did this really well was "Maggie" where being infected with zombie plague is a long term condition in which the…

A wizard did it.