Marilyn Manson’s done worse covers than Sweet Dreams.

Hot take: he’s absolutely right about the Skywalkers being fundamental to Star Wars, it’s just that no one wants to admit it.

“Bringing up the idea of giving the movie ‘back to the fans’ was a pretty clear shout-out to all those losers who went after us for making an all-female film.” Jones writes.”

I’m torn.

What a brave take about a situation you have absolutely zero insight into. 

T2 impressed me more than Jurassic. Maybe because it came a year earlier.

Pretty decent list, The only oversight I clearly see is no Possession.

Honorable Mention:

Jaws is #1 as it’s the best movie ever made. And this is coming from someone who saw Raiders in a theater in Flushing Queens in 81 when they theater lost it’s shit cheering when Indy appeared on the sub.

“Seriously, do you just not have proofreaders anymore?”

Indeed.  I was curious to hear what they’re up to these days, but one listen to that track and - okay - now I know.   “Inspired,” is not a word I would use.

That Smashing Pumpkins track sounds like a Metallica track that was left off the album for being too plodding and dull. How far have the mighty fallen, etc.

For the love of Christ can everyone stop pretending that cancel culture “isn’t a thing” just because it doesn’t always result in the targeted person disappearing from public life *forever*?

Regular people, people who aren’t famous, get cancelled and it results in lost jobs, lost friends and sometimes suicide. It’s the…

It was between reviewing Winter Light or writing a couple thousand word essay about Ken-energy and not even mention the fact that Ken has no junk

Sure, maybe this specific quote. But look at the philosophy behind it, expressed a few lines later in the interview:

Superman III. That one scene disturbed the shit out of me as a kid.

I don’t know if I’d consider Re-Animator Body Horror. Body Horror doesn’t have the strictest definition but just being gory doesn’t make something Body Horror. In the literature on horror in fiction Body Horror is generally set aside for works where the major thematic elements that drive the horror (and usually gore)…

Time and budget seem like such big deals here. The sets were these tiny things and the set design, action scenes, and costumes were sometimes reflective of the original trilogy but often at the level of a streaming show and a handful of times positively Doctor Who-like in cheesiness. I felt bad because 90% of the fun…

Agreed, the meditation moment is very resonant, almost startlingly so. It’s similar to the point in Obi-Wan’s fight with Vader in A New Hope when he allows himself to be struck down, but Qui-Gon’s meditation I think is better at conveying the depths of the Jedi way as a spiritual discipline. Even in a brief moment invo…

The 30 seconds of Obi-Wan and Darth Maul fighting one-on-one after Qui-Gon’s death is maybe the most riveting 30 seconds of film I’ve ever seen. All my complaints just melt away watching those two have the lightsaber fight I’d been dreaming of since literally before I can remember.