I have to admit that a Blazing Saddles starring Richard Pryor and John Wayne would be a sight to behold, but I don’t think it would have been as successful as what we got. The heart of the movie, Sheriff Bart and the Waco Kid’s growing friendship, would have been lost. Plus Cleavon Little and Wilder are literally reall…

Even though Blatty hated the producers insistence that an Exorcist sequel had to have an exorcism in it, the film has held up well and gotten only better, likely due to the woefully poor quality of all the other Exorcist sequels. Blatty’s novel the film was an adaptation of, Legion, is also a great read.

If anything, besides Tom Bombadil, the biggest excised portion of Jackson’s adaptation was the Scouring of the Shire portions; one of the more historically realistic sections of Tolkeins’ work.

There is also David Friedman the storied exploitation writer-producer-director from the 50's through the 70's.  As a young up and coming writer Benioff likely would have been advised by his agent to change his name.

That’s the crux of my criticism of D&B, I understand that burn-out on such a massive undertaking as GOT was inevitable, but they had the power to delegate the remaining series after Season 6 to do full seasons 7-8 which is what was needed to end the series properly.

Boston made one good album, which may have the biggest drop-off in quality between side one and side two of any album I’ve ever heard.

Bebe Le Strange is good, but then they regressed into pop hair metal and that was that.

You know, I’m starting to think that this Harvey Weinstein fellow was a piece of feces masquerading as a human being.

When viewed in the higher resolutions of both DVD and Blue Ray it becomes obvious that all of the make up effects during the final portion of the film are pretty fake.  The impalement scene remains effect though.

Exorcist 2 is one of those fascinating train-wreck films that for one moment hits you with an image so breathtaking that you can’t believe that at the next moment everything surrounding it is absolutely ridiculous, encompassed in pretty much the entire African sequence.

I think “Exorcist 2" did more to trash her career than the original did.

The film’s opening implies that the older priest, Father Merrin, has somehow loosed the unnamed demon that takes over the girl. But it never explains how; the choice seems entirely random. We never quite come to understand what the demon wants either. That demon mostly seems like a teenage edgelord, just saying…

The actor who played him, Richard Bright, had an interesting life as well.  He was one of Sam Peckinpah’s stable of actors and was arrested for uttering obscenities on stage in San Francisco in the early 60's, the case was eventually thrown out and became an important precedent for other 1st amendment cases.

That’s the price Hagen pays for his sins.  He may be a good soldier that does what needs to be done and does his job well....but he’s not Sicilian and even though he’s adopted he’ll never be a true member of the family.

To get a sense of what a artistically neutered Godfather would have looked like, one only has to look at “The Valachi Papers”, which came out between I and II.

You say to-ma-to I say tom-a-to

sigh....Season 3 was the best reboot ever to hit my television screen, bar none by a long shot.

Tami Erin elected to sell and have a sex tape released after legal action against an ex-boyfriend failed to prevent the scumbag from releasing it.

It must be pointed out that by 1968 the surfing craze had culturally long crested and the zeitgeist consisted of bikers and hippies. A Batman show dedicated to surfing was THE indicator catching a wave had the same sense of “uncoolness” as buying the Beach Boys “Friends” long player.

Dr. Strangelove was meticulously researched by Kubrick to vet that the military capabilities presented in the film were accurate.