The twist - rather than being from one of his other known roles like Reading Rainbow or Roots, all of his pictures are from his early role in the Steve McQueen movie The Hunter.

Here’s the thing though - I line up the wooden acting in TPM and the kind of goofy acting in ANH, and I find myself a bit more inclined to forgive the latter since many of the cast are still relatively new to the game. Cushing and Guinness aside, the majority of the main players in ANH are all still up and comers, so…

There is one big answer to that I don’t see getting discussed anywhere near enough -

I’m in agreement, actually. I went in to the second a couple years later and while I still can’t say I liked it all that much, I at least appreciated the fact it felt tighter and more focused compared to its predecessor.

Looking back at his adaptation of Blade of the Immortal, I think you’re on to something.
Alongside having to condense 31 books of material, one of the other big changes Miike made with the source material was scaling back some of its more over the top violence (granted, part of this may also be the limitations of…

Mike D’Angelo wrote in the blurb that Audition “is best viewed with zero foreknowledge,” which is probably true. — I dunno why, but as I get older, the more I feel like there’s certain things you just don’t blindside a person on.
Audition is...kind of on a borderline (though really, if you know someone who’s set off…

I survived the first arc. Outside of probably introducing one of the most bizarre Ennis side characters this side of Arseface and Bueno Excelente, I can’t recommend it for much else.

Looking back, I can’t help but feel like there might be a really fucked up reading of it as being about fundamentalism, but then I…

After going years of putting it off, I finally watched Nekromantik one October as part of a ‘horror movie a day’ project I had going for a few years (I would put together a large list and pull 31 at random at the start of the month.)

To my surprise - and slight horror - I was bored out of my mind during it. Like, I…

Having pulled the pin on that grenade...yeah, you’re not wrong there.

The revenge part of that movie is pretty damn cathartic, but holy shit, that first 40 minutes is still one of the roughest viewing experiences I have ever been through.

Much as I respect the man, King has some serious problems with Deus Ex Machina in his work. A LOT of his endings are riddled with some variation of it.

That said, I will continue to go to bat for the ending to The Dead Zone. It’s a bit of a downer, but it’s also one of the rare King endings I’d say feels like a…

To be fair, Death Wish does also still seem to fit in with a lot of Roth’s politics, so I can’t help but feel like he still had some degree of investment in that one beyond just the paycheck.

On the one hand, I can imagine the shock. On the other, we’re living in an age where one of the most successful fantasy movie series was helmed by the man responsible for splatter movies like DeadAlive and Meet the Feebles, so I also take it in stride now.

There is something to be said for this. I think that’s a big part of why the turtle scene in CH remains so infamous - it’s not really presented as ritualistic or necessary as much as another means of highlighting just how casually cruel the characters in the movie are (best highlighted in the one guy playing with the…

I stand corrected on that point, but nevertheless stand by my overall thesis.

In the simplest of terms - they’re banking on the interpretation spurred on by the fairly modern (and when you get down to it heretical) idea of the Rapture - i.e. when this shit goes down, they - as God’s ‘favorites’ - will all be air-lifted up to Heaven before the fracas begins, where they’ll get to watch from on…

“ (an even most historians agree already happened way back in the first century CE)“ — Oh, it’s safe to say by the intent of its writers, that’s all said and done in the past.
But...well...you know how Evangelicals can be with that face value literal interpretation.
Plus, there’s their hard on for the Rapture concept,…

Unlike the Roseanne case, however, when you point out that monster’s problems, many of its supporters go “Yes? And?”

There isn’t even the “He promised he wouldn’t.” attached - it’s a feature to them, not a bug.

Every time I hear someone say this, I think of all the garbage cinema I have watched over the years, either voluntarily or by chance.

and I want to look them in the eye and declare “I HAVE SUCH SIGHTS TO SHOW YOU!”

“How can fans ruin something they have no control over?” —

Ask anyone who worked at a McDonalds during last year’s Szechuan Sauce debacle, then come back here.

This is a read I’d honestly been wondering about since TFA. Particularly when one notes how much younger everyone in the First Order appears to be compared to your classic OT Imerial officer. Paired with the child soldier element of the Stormtroopers, there has been this weird sense that a lot of the First Order rank…