Actually, the more accurate song for me would be “Never Did No Wanderin’” from “A Mighty Wind”, but then I’d have to pick which performance to link.

That would probably cost more.

Gone With the Wind was a gigantic epic.

It was always a bad idea to make Mystique into Xavier’s adopted sister, in a triangle between him & Magneto. The Romijn version of Mystique from the earlier films worked better.

I’m assuming that’s some kind of videogame reference the kids these days know about.

I do think it was poor writing in that episode for major characters to seem like they’re about to die, but just remain alive for no particular reason, while all those untold numbers of redshirts around them die. But then the Dothraki & Unsullied re-appeared somehow to attack King’s Landing.

Germ theory & quarantine were regarded as backward Catholic superstition. The transmission of yellow fever between people who had no physical contact with each other (they didn’t realize mosquitoes were the hosts) seemed at one time to definitively weigh the evidence in favor of miasma theory.

The movie makes it into the sort of dumb gung-ho action story the novel is critiquing, which isn’t necessarily to say that the novel is better (I haven’t read it). The film definitely seems more lowbrow though.

The director of an episode of tv generally doesn’t to decide whether to kill characters, unless they’re also on the writing staff.

I think that was only among upper-class people who used doctors that transmitted infections from corpses they’d been handling earlier. Among mothers who relied on midwives, it was much rarer.

I’m more annoyed that there was less discussion of Shaw’s intended feminist argument in Pygmalion. Not because that makes it “timely” in any way, but because he was so mad at stage versions that put Higgins & Eliza together at the end that he added an afterword explaining why she married the aristocrat referred to as…

I don’t know if that’s a good example of a movie “elevating” its source material. Nothing Lasts Forever is morally ambiguous, whose “terrorists” are sincerely out to expose some genuine wrongdoing and might not have killed anybody if the protagonist hadn’t intervened.

More American than American Mary, which was 100% Canadian, pumping maple syrup in its veins instead of blood.

Are the zombies here fast or slow? That’s another big dividing line.

Hill House is one of my least favorite things from Flanagan. It was just a bad idea to try and make that story into an uplifting family drama miniseries. The reasons to look forward to this are the other films from Flanagan.

I call BS: Sienna Miller isn’t American! This goes for Christian Bale in American Hustle as well. And I get the feeling that Simon Cowell from American Idol isn’t either.

I haven’t seen the film either, but it seems inspired specifically by Night of the Living Dead, along with some touches of Dawn of the Dead. The more recent trend has been explorations of society after a zombie apocalypse has already screwed everything up (Fear the Walking Dead shows the early stages, but that’s a…

Laserface appeared to be referring to Brett Ratner’s X-Men 3, which did not feature Jennifer Lawrence. Lawrence wasn’t an “unknown” either, she’d received an Oscar nomination for Winter’s Bone. And the stupid decision to make her Xavier’s adopted sister in First Class screwed up the character without the help of Hunger…

When was he supposed to have tackled zombies? Or vampires? Or samurais? Or westerns?

I hadn’t thought of Sophie being required to talk more about GoT because of Dark Phoenix, but I suppose that makes sense.