Another good example is Lord of The Rings. The biggest change was cutting out Tom Bambadil, for good reason coz that section of the book sucked.

I actually thought it was the opposite. It was originally intended to be a more direct prequel to Alien but script rewrites by the Lost guy downplayed this. Anyway, Prometheus is very well directed and has some fantastic sequences, but doesn't really fit together that well.

I see where you're coming from, but I find the plot way too sleazy and dark, and the action too forgettable, to really enjoy it as a mindless action flick.

The middle of season 2 is terrible, but the Lynch directed episodes towards the end are pretty great. And FWWM is perhaps one of the most underrated films of all time. I love it.

Let's face it, it's not like the original series was anything other than a 20 minute toy commercial, that doesn't hold up today at all.

Michael B Jordan looks like he's the only one who is actually trying in Fant4stic. Plus he was in Creed a few months later which redeemed him.

I think the first one is a better movie, but the second is easier to watch, if you know what I mean.

The remake directed by michael mann is crap.

Lots of good filmmakers have made bad films. I think if we can forgive William Friedkin for Deal of the Century, The Coen Brothers for The Ladykillers, Stephen Spielberg for 1941, and The Lost World, Michael Mann for Miami Vice, Quentin Tarantino for Death Proof, John Carpenter for Ghosts of Mars and Wes Craven for…

Ah, you're right. I mis-remembered it as 4 stars.

"Meanwhile, "Friday the 13th" they had a big problem with, since from the opening credits the audience is given the P.O.V.—and hence placed in the mindset— of mass murderer Jason Vorhees."

They could be so weird sometimes. During the 80s they were on a fanatical crusade against slasher movies for basically the same reasons as you cite about Bob Dole - not that they're good movies - but Ebert especially claimed that they were dangerous and harmful to society. He panned Blue Velvet because he claimed it…

The fact remains though that these countries have a statistically lower violent crime rate than most Western European countries and the United States. So that excuse doesn't really work.

The actual violent crime rate in most of these countries is lower than the United States and most Western European countries.

The entire movie is on Youtube. It's basically an attempt to do a horror twist on the Tarantino Pulp Fiction style, and it's just the worst, partly because everything about it is just so obnoxious.

8 Heads in a Duffel Bag, and especially The Item…shudder. were there actually any good ones?

It was cheap and I hadn't seen it when I bought it.

Well said. Most of these countries are significantly poorer than their West European neighbors and have a history of discriminated against in some of the most egregious ways known to mankind. Eastern Europeans are still marginalized and discriminated against in many Western European countries for the reasons you…

After the third time, you have to wonder if he's just a bad parent :)

Heh, not quite. Although to be fair the negative portrayal of Germans mainly occurs in historical movies about the Nazis. I'm actually from Bosnia. Balkan Slavs (and people who aren't Slavs but get lumped with them anyway, such as the Romanians or Albanians) are almost always portrayed as uncultured thugs and savages…