Bro, I’m so old I remember when movies stayed in THEATRES for a year. Star Wars had birthday celebrations. I worked at a movie theatre for nine months and Die Hard played there the entire time.

A scrappy homegrown Twister team goes up against a rival team who went and got themselves some corporate sponsors.

Who saw the headline and came here jutht for the comments?

I remember arguing with a friend in middle school in the early 1980s whether Star Wars would be first released on pay tv, broadcast, or VHS.

It’s difficult to measure, but I think there has been so much lost pleasure with everything at your fingertips in a relatively short amount of time. Anticipation was part of the fun in the era of long-delayed physical media. But you cannot be a kid in 2 eras, so it’s truly difficult to know if that anticipation has…

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me was well over a year, and when it finally came out, it was $80. That was a bit of an outlier, but it shows the difference in times. I got the entire series, the movie, the Return, and extras for less than that a few years ago.

And then you had to race over to Blockbuster to makes sure you got a copy, or you’d be waiting another week.

I still remember waiting for the 2009 Star Trek to come out on DVD.  It felt sooooo long.

I remember the really good old pre-VHS days when a film might eventually turn up on TV up to several years later.

“I didn’t want it to go through the normal ‘Let’s Brighten it up, for the kids’ you know what I mean.”

Jack Valenti. A venal, self-aggrandizing crumb and prude, working the MPAA to fill his investment portfolio. So glad we don’t have to hear his insincere moralizing from his clacking dentures anymore.

That’s really a great idea. The part of the novel where Victor and the monster are together on the ship is profoundly important to the novel. And I prefer Frankenstein movies where the monster actually looks like a human rather than a Hallween costume. I’d take slipping, but the drama could be amazing.

I think it’s already been rearranged but, yeah, Picasso that guy!

Wot is Love’s Labour’s Lost, innit?

Maybe he could pay them in Ring-Dings.

I know enough about this band to know that’s the one thing that won’t happen. 

She would finally earn my respect if she farted into a mic.

I’m still full from eating the document.

How do you like them apples?