The premise of "Who Goes There?" left the protagonist wondering if he had already been assimilated, so if they carry that idea, I'm all for it.

The snake could be implied as being tied to Voldemort (Parseltongue, Nagini, etc.). At this point, if you're watching the DVD as a Criterion Collection, you've most likely seen the film in theaters. Hardly a spoiler, if they're taken out of context.

It was destroyed in the war of the Valar against Melkor (Morgoth) and sank into the sea shortly thereafter.

No. Not Númenor. Beleriand.

Cases in point: Superman Returns and The Silmarillion.

Stephen King usually approved those movies being made.

Could be interpreted as the Joker blowing up the Gotham PD jail.

Movie boxes usually have a synopsis on the back. I don't see that as being a spoiler.

Uh, what? The books have been finished for four years. It's not our fault you're too lazy to read.

He had good reason to be angsty. He had a lot of bad shit happen to him: his parents died, was repeatedly shunned by the outside wizarding world, his fellow students and even his friends, and had many people close to end up dead just because he was "special." That'd make me pretty depressed and whiny, especially when…

Are we talking Paris Hilton loose?

D'oh: [en.wikipedia.org] href="http://io9.com/episode%3d21/">#Episode_21:_Waking_Up_Dead

Had you watched that show more closely, you'll see that someone actually did die from an acupuncture needle puncturing their heart.

I was going to say it looks like the lowest levels of Aperture Science Laboratories.

Witch is up on HBO go already.

Hell, even the title tells you the ending of the movie.

Hard to miss the alien holding a leg stump like a chicken wing while making crunching noises.

From what I understand, Magneto is not a died-in-the-wool bad guy all of the time. Doesn't he end up running the School for a short period of time?

Rolling around in the piles of money he made off this scam, just like Scrooge McDuck.

I think they're relying on the old credo that it's best not to make the God botherers question their already shaky hold on their beliefs.