I thought maybe an ice kraken (or something) was going to rise out of the water (i.e., paying off the earlier reference to ice spiders big as hounds') and drag a whole bunch of boats to the bottom.

The Go Back In Time/reenactment women were very sweet! All is not lost.

Sure (or close enough). And there are other slike 'Come and See' too. I wasn't trying to be exhaustive, but just to give a sense that it's not crazy to believe that there are a couple of masterpieces each year in the 1980s. It's true, however, that there are no 5+ masterpiece years in the '80s (except possibly 1980…

There are definitely a few '80s masterpieces beyond Raging Bull: Blue Velvet, Brazil, Fanny and Alexander, Do The Right Thing, Once Upon A Time In America, King of Comedy, Purple Rose of Cairo, Broadway Danny Rose, The Vanishing, Blood Simple, Seventh Continent, and so on. But, you're right, the thing that's most…

Interesting. It sounds then as though Corman made exactly the right decisions for himself.

'X' is a great-looking film and is well-directed too. It almost makes one wish that Corman had taken a more conventional path and become a director of studio features with decent-to-big budgets.

There's a fair bit of Psycho in Road Games as well: an inverse 'shower scene' just for starters. Anyhow, when you see it, it makes complete sense that Franklin should have got the Psycho 2 job.

Well, McTiernan got a big, retrospective, master-class series at the Cinematheque in Paris last year:
http://www.cinematheque.fr/…
The French at least seem interested in preserving everything he has.

The organ music sounded right out of Carnival of Souls (1963). Don Driving drowsily with ghostly Burt Cooper next to him also felt right of COS.

Warren Zevon has a (short) song called 'If You Won't Leave Me I'll Find Somebody Who Will'. Self-abasing streaks in personalities are a real thing.

Making the positive case that Macy often plays losers only makes (at best) half the argument that's needed to support the vid.'s official conclusion. Someone should make a vid. for (at least a sketch of) the other half of the argument, e.g., showing why Lorre, Cazale, and various other obvious possibilities for the…

Thor 2 was awful, probably worse than Iron Man 2.

the most effective kill on the avengers would be tony stark
Behead Hulk; as the tears flow in the audience, the head de-hulks to Ruffalo who last gasps to Black Widow, 'Still angry….' Fin. Decap-ing Cap also works.

Reed's The Man Between (1953) (w/ Claire Bloom at her most Grace Kelly-ish!) is very much The Third Man Redux in Berlin (only Mason's character is both Lime and Anna Schmidt).

So long as Stouffer's Mac & Cheese never changes its unholy brew (with additional plastic!), I'm good.

Yeah, this ep. was some sort of A and possibly the best of the whole Season 7: Sally & Betty were awesome in their abilities to drive each other insane: 'I'm sorry mother but this conversation is a little late….and so am I'. Big LOL.

Agree that it's Mason's voice that really makes him stand out: it's up there with Laughton's and Welles's.

Very nice, Herrmannish score from Desplat too.

Looping back and ret-coning the rest of the ep. to 'You've really got me' works well too:
https://youtu.be/XfXo7OTHpRw

That's the other way of thinking about about the scene - as I saw it, however, Pete *did* sinisterly exploit his momentary leverage/advantage over Gudrun to get her to have sex (that uncompromised she wouldn't have had) with him, which is coercive just not enough so to completely undermine consent in the case in my…