I guess that this is supposed to be a burn. I’m not excusing Mack for her actions, but hey, that’s why she went to prison. She’s out now. According to the legal system, she’s learned her lesson. It’s up to her to be a better person now. 

My initial reaction to the story that included the phrases “Allison Mack” and “sex cult” was “You have my attention.” Then the details came out.

This is such a goddamned weird article. It sets up some arbitrary rules, tosses out examples, yet with rare exceptions fails to explain what made any given example a hit or miss.

Yep. The other example from Temple of Doom is one that no one has mentioned yet: Indy’s mine car shooting off the end of the broken track and landing precisely onto the rails on the far side of the gap. Got a big laugh in the theater, IIRC.

No, I didn’t intend to imply that. Just pointing out that the raft scene could just as easily have been part of Raiders.

I saw Temple of Doom on opening night, and I contend that if social media had existed back then, “parachuting the raft” would’ve been a meme.

I saw Temple on opening night, and I can tell you that if social media had been a thing, the raft scene would’ve been 1984’s “nuke the fridge.” Funny thing is that several of the big action scenes—the raft, Indy running behind the rolling gong, and the mine car chase—are all holdovers from the Raiders script.

I did wonder why Sears was being credited by some as playing Garrick, given that he very definitely did *not* play him on TV. Would’ve made more sense to have John Wesley Shipp. OTOH, I don’t care that it was some nobody; it was just nice to have the OG Flash represented.

And to be unable to close his eyes when the commercial for her hard core show is displayed on every surface of his room. It was monstrous, and not in a good way. 

For me, “15 Million Merits” is the bleakest, because it stopped me from wanting to watch more of the series. It was one of the grimmest, most nightmarish episodes of TV I’ve ever seen, and if doesn’t even make the top 10, well…I think I made the right call.

Me too! And sure, it wasn’t good, but 3D had been dormant for so long that the novelty made it a hit. At least it delivered on things comin’ at ya. 

That’s not true. Of those, “Mario” is the only one that isn’t a post-production 3D conversion. And if this review of the film’s different formats is accurate, there’s very little popping out of the screen, which is what I mean by “immersive.”

Decent history of 3D, but let’s not forget 1981's “Comin’ at Ya!” It was an inexpensive Spaghetti Western that single-handedly kickstarted the early ‘80s 3D boomlet.

It’s not that studios need to stop making 3D movies, it’s that they need to make them *for* 3D. The remake of “My Bloody Valentine” was a lot of fun, in large part because a slasher film provided many opportunities to poke sharp implements out of the screen. “Monsters vs. Aliens” brought back the paddle-ball gag from…

That’s especially true of the first season, when David Gerrold was still involved. Writers included Gerrold, Ben Bova, Larry Niven, Norman Spinrad, and “Trek” refugees D.C. Fontana, Margaret Armen and Walter Koenig. It dropped off in season two, though even then there were scripts by Armen, Donald Glut and Theodore…

The one that truly pisses me off is “Land of the Lost.” The premise and setting have the potential for a great family adventure ala the later “Jumanji” films. And for what it’s worth, the movie does lean into some of the more peculiar aspects of the old TV show. Unfortunately—and I say this as someone who generally…

FWIW, I watched the scene in question again yesterday, and while he does chew on a New Yorker in a relatively graphic fashion (for 1933), he pulls the poor guy out of his mouth and tosses him.

Exactly. The biggest movie currently in theaters is a movie about the multiverse that is a sequel to another wildly successful movie about the multiverse that, by the way, won the Oscar for Best Animated Picture. Oh, and last year’s Oscar-winner for Best Picture was yet another wildly successful picture about a…

I saw “Ishtar” on its initial release. It’s a genial, Bob-and-Bing road movie. I enjoyed it. For some reason, people reviewed the budget rather than the film. Is the money on the screen? Absolutely not. But my ticket cost the same price as one for any other contemporaneous film.

You’re misremembering it a bit. While Kong does grab that woman, he doesn’t try to undress her. As soon as he realizes it’s not Ann, he drops her.