If the bar is full of people screaming along, then it’s not like a crowd being united AGAINST a singer.

Back when I was living with grad students and we’d regularly go to the bar right by us, I was able to pull off the overlapping choruses of Collective Soul’s “December” even though only one of them would appear on the karaoke screen. A young woman there agreed to do “Fairytale of New York” with me at the same bar, but…

It implies that Dani,

Ah. I guess I’m not familiar enough with the Yorkshire accent.

Ironic usage of a song in a trailer works better for me than the deluge of minor key acoustic covers.

If the film had been made closer to Reagan’s presidency, Ignatiy might have more of a point. But in 1995? I know production times can be long, but we were about to re-elect the second President after him.

These days, kids don’t say “I want to fly like Superman!” they say “I wish I had superpowers but then I would have a million problems and responsibilities and people would hate me for being different and I’d have to deal with superpowered assholes trying to fuck over the world all the time!”

Did you intend to comment on a different thread?

I doubt he cared about your reaction, he just gives the same answers he always gives in interviews.

I remember the phrase “peak X” got popular with “peak oil”, since the idea was that oil production was monotonically headed downward (then fracking arrived). Then John Landgraf came up with “peak TV” based on the idea that the amount of content had to be headed down soon. But people kept repeating the phrase even as…

Shakespeare was quite successful. The financial records we have for him are well beyond the station he was born in (and in fact he managed to get his father a coat of arms). And King’s Men’s patron was the King of England, so they weren’t just playing to the peanut gallery. Ben Jonson celebrated him shortly after his…

I think Fiona Dourif plays the Rat Woman in this.

The Manchester accent* is what made me think Gugino is playing Jamie. Although it could be that’s just what Gugino defaults to when she attempts a British one.

I’ve never been to NYC, I just know seeing a Woody Allen movie is something you can do throughout the country at a lower cost. I imagine that tourists go to NYC-specific things like Times Square, MoMA, Central Park, Statue of Liberty, Coney Island etc. I also wouldn’t expect people to base their decision to visit NYC…

“Mean and unfair” is exactly how Hill House had been characterized. That was the ending the rest of the show had been leading up to.

His movies are good. It was just a terrible decision to make that story into a family-drama miniseries.

People from L.A, Chicago or Kansas City might visit New York to see a Broadway show, but they can watch a Woody Allen movie in the theaters back home.

I recall that it starts out with Michael just going into a random person’s house to kill them (something David Gordon Green’s recent film imitated), and only later entering the hospital where Jamie Lee Curtis is (she’s actually not in very much of the movie), and she spends most of the time lying in a hospital bed.…

After listening to the episode, I will note to Dowd that I haven’t seen any of those Swayze movies either. One he didn’t mention that I also haven’t seen is Red Dawn. I think the only Swayze film I have seen is Point Break.

Ghostbusters & Gremlins are both going for comedy rather than horror, so they aren’t really even intended to be scary. I prefer Evil Dead 2 to the original, but that’s also supposed to be funny. The Blob is just not good, and The Fog isn’t nearly as good as The Thing (I also think his other 80s “apocalypse trilogy”…