It's too bad, because "Horror-ambe" is a better title than what they're working with now.

I want to upvote this comment, but now I think that would be playing directly into your hands. A quandary, to be sure.

He never really developed as a director past what he did in "Clerks," and it's much harder to forgive his self-indulgence as a writer when he's so stagnant visually. "Clerks" won critics over on the strength of its script, and ever since then critics have been waiting for Smith to find a visual style beyond…

I came in here looking for those numbers. If it wasn't for the AVC review, I would have had no idea this even came out.

Gotcha, I read too much into what you said, sorry.

A movie that bombed but still has a small group of people who really liked it is not a cult movie anymore? What is a cult movie, then?

Ha, probably! I will say that I understand that the amount of money being spent on franchise movies today is where a lot of the anxiety comes from. I just don't believe Hollywood will continue to crank out $450 million tentpoles even after it's unprofitable. The 70s in Hollywood happened because the reliable old ideas…

There were more original movies on the list of 1981's top-grossing movies, true, but 1981 was also the year of Friday the 13th 2, Halloween 2, The Omen III, another Bond movie, another King Arthur movie, another Tarzan movie, another Muppet movie, another Zorro movie, and another Lone Ranger movie.

Well, the Ma and Pa Kettle series spawned 9 films over 10 years, spun-off from another movie that was itself based on a book. There were 15 Andy Hardy movies over a nine-year span, the first movie based on a stage play. Although it's forgotten about now, the comic strip Joe Palooka also inspired a series of 12 movies…

We're making the same point, aren't we?

It doesn't matter how much money is spent or what other media options are available - my point is that Hollywood has never been shy about trying to squeeze every last drop out of a successful idea, and spending $175 million on a Ninja Turtles sequel nobody ended up seeing isn't the death knell for creativity.

Sorry you didn't like it, but maybe other people do?

Anytime I read a piece about Hollywood's sequel-itis and the death of new ideas, I double-check IMDB and confirm that, yes, there were 28 movies based on the comic strip Blondie released between 1938 and 1943. Five years, TWENTY-SEVEN sequels.

Bitch, you almost made me laugh…

Casting Jason Momoa hurt the chances of his movie being called "Whitefish."

Pure electricity. IN MY PANTS.

Scatman Crothers.

That's a fair question - I think the prequels' biggest failing was that Lucas wanted them to hew even closer to the Flash Gordon/John Carter pulp adventures Star Wars was inspired by, but his limitations with directing actors meant he wasn't great at communicating that. McDiarmid rightfully read Palpatine as a…

Ben-Hur: Answer the Call

Yeah, I thought it was really weird that a movie put its tagline on the title card, but then I saw it on all the street marketing that went up in the weeks before its release and realized they had tried to pull a "Live Die Repeat" while it was out in theaters. Between that and the lazy first trailer, it seems Sony…