Hey, the Asylum’s Transmorphers movies are completely original!

All of Ari Aster’s works have been original. But Mike Flanagan (whose movies I really like, if not his miniseries) has adapted Stephen King (twice), Shirley Jackson, Henry James and done a prequel to a Ouija movie. He’s also currently working on adapting Christopher Pike.

Whit Stillman was never that prolific. I think Amazon was willing to let him have plenty of time to make The Cosmopolitans, but he just never wrote more than half of what they expected for the pilot.

TFA is just retracing the steps of ANH. Rogue One was distinct in actually resembling a war movie for the first time in Star Wars.

Different from Ghostbusters it sounds like, not different from Stranger Things.

It’s been a long time since I saw GB2 so I guess my memory of it is lacking. How does it “actively pull down its pants to take a massive shit on the first movie”?

Carrie Coon is a great actress, but I don’t get the impression she’s well used here. Paul Rudd actually does seem like he’d fit in a Ghostbusters movie.

How about “serviceable” rather than “solid”?

“Fuck MTV! We’ll never make a video!” - Metallica

What is “the ST”?

whether some upper middle class White dude feels sad or not

Stranger Things is already a vehicle for nostalgia! But it’s like Super 8 in not actually being part of an existing IP and thus technically “original”. Midnight Special would be the more respectable version of drawing on early Spielberg.

I’d never heard the term “glass-cliffing” before.

Which video was that?

Oh, exhausting? Hopefully you can lie down after reading such tough reviews :)

Katja Herbers was on that before Westworld & Evil. And I agree with you on how weird its approach to fictionalization was.

co-directors Jean-Philippe Vine and Octavio E. Rodriguez

“My whole life I was asked, ‘Would you make a Ghostbusters movie?’ And I made the incorrect, egotistical assumption that people wanted to see my Ghostbusters movie when the truth was people wanted to see a Ghostbusters movie,” Reitman said.

I liked the recent Pet Sematery remake more than the original (the one exception was that Herman Munster was better at playing a rural New Englander).