Huh, now that mention it, much as I love and am a completist of Tarantino, Django is th’only one I’ve seen in the cinema. And (aside from Jackie Brown, which I saw under terrible circumstances) prolly my least favorite?

I didn’t catch the latter in the cinema, but I did see it at my college theatre in a packed house, and that was pretty amazing. I laughed at the “for pooping, you idiöts” line far more than I’d care t’admit…

Speaking of camps, I saw it with a bunch of other counselors at my summer camp, at a time when counselors had to park in a field a ways from the cabins. So after watching it, I literally had to walk a mile thru the woods in the dark. That was harrowing.

I don’t do well with horror movies, but I remember watching the Fright Night remake because I liked the entirety of the cast, and it was pretty good, especially for returning vampires to horror for the first time I could remember. I realized, tho, that it was not in the least scary if I hovered the mouse over the…

That is an amazing line-up for that panel.

I read the review here and got it from the library as soon as I could. I wasn’t into it at all.

I don’t enjoy beïng scared, so a horror movie has t’have a lot goïng for it otherwise for me to like it (I count The Shining, The Ring, and (yes) Unfriended on the very short list of horror movies I enjoyed), so my horror-movie loving wife was so excyted that I wanted to watch The Cabin in the Woods with her, not…

I bet a lot of people have. I have. I think silent movies are prolly the #1 category for movies released before I was born that I’ve seen in the cinema, just because the live organ/piano experiënce is one that’s just impossible to replicate at home. Aside from Trip to the Moon, I’ve seen The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Th…

That’s strange to me. I saw a production of “La Nuit des Rois,” a translation of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” at the Comédie Française when I was studyïng abroad there, and it was a hilariöus performance, but everybody in the audiënce kept looking at my whenever I’d laugh. Mebbe because it was Shakespeare so they all…

Have him read The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. He’ll never see it coming! (The twist for me, in reading that book, was that Stevenson originally intended it as a twist!)

I guess he didn’t see, like, all of Sin City, then? (Or the The Maxx TV show?)

Moulin Rouge for me, a movie I dislike (tho I like musicals in general…). My then-girlfriend and I were so excyted for it we cosplayed the première, but were both disappointed, especially in the “love story.” But I’ve intentionally watched it twice since then, and while my opinion of the movie didn’t actually improve…

It’s a whole thing…

Contractions! Man, I didn’t even get into those!

Like, only a white person would have these as his/her only pet peeves? I guess; I prolly should’ve said something about how these were my grammatical pet peeves, but I’ll take it. And I guess it’s a white name. Often I think of whiteness as beïng associäted with WASPiness, and it’s an Italiän name, Siciliän in my…

I’d’ve gone off on some tangent about how every comment says “Imagine how much controversy there’s be if…” as if this weren’t something a lot of people were obviöusly upset about. And that would’ve gotten us nowhere. (I’m similarly annoyed when I see in my FB feed “Why is everybody talking about [thing I heard about…

My hiërarchy of pet peeves:
Level One (Understandable but sub-optimal): Using |Chris’s| as the plural of |Chris| (rather than |Chrises| or possibly |Chrisses|, neither of which looks awesome)
Level Two (Definitely not great, but not the worst) Using |Chris’| as the possessive of |Chris|, rather than |Chris’s|
Level Three…

Ha! When we were having this discussion, I thought about tryïng to dig up an old comment where I rewrote the BN opening to be about Arrow, but wasn’t sure how to go about finding it. Then, out of nowhere, somebody just upvoted it, so here you go!

Phew!

For me it was Bloom County, where (not surprisingly, and perhaps, annoyingly from Trudeau’s perspective) the same was true. Until The Apprentice (which I didn’t watch, but which was an unavoidable part of the zeitgeist), pretty much all I knew about him was Bloom County, the “Clamp” character in Gremlins 2, and names…