I don’t remember them having that much interaction as a couple — He starts the film in Transylvania, and by the time he gets back all the characters are mostly dealing with her being half-vampirized.

That was probably partly a generational lapse on Brooks’ part, as you say, and partly a matter of big parody musical numbers being fun to write and make.

I rode a “land luge” in the US — somewhere near Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky — about 20 years ago. I remember both waivers and a helmet, and at least one scary moment where I realized that there were really no safety features on this thing, and if I didn’t exercise some caution and use the brakes a bit, I could easily…

Brooks rounded out his original parody arc with High Anxiety, generally considered the weakest of them, though I still enjoyed it (I’d consider Silent Movie more of a straight comedy than a parody). The bridge to his later parodies was History of the World: Part I, which was something of a burlesque comedy revival.…

I’m thinking a more conventional: Predator Fudd gets lost, and blasts Suburban Daffy in numerous ways until Bugs shows up and settles things

I would assume from the preview that they would rather have landed in Syria or Nigeria, but accidentally crashed in an American suburb. This story is probably the equivalent of the hunters’ pickup breaking down and their shooting squirrels and ‘possums out of boredom... Until the locals go all Ewok on them.

As in other contexts, I don’t buy that a simulation of me is somehow actually me, however much it might convince others. or even be sentient itself. So while I may lament the suffering of my simulation, as I would anyone’s suffering, I wouldn’t feel any particular “self-preservation” impulse with regard to it.

I’d put Washington and LBJ in the finals, along with Lincoln. A number of the former generals (like William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Grant, and Eisenhower) could make respectable showings. But none of them could beat TR for determination (guy kicked asthma by force of will, and gave a speech after being shot)…

But could likely have kicked the ass of any other president except maybe Teddy Roosevelt.

I recall having had that car when I was like 4, with utterly no consciousness of the Bond films, but thinking it was pretty damn cool. Alas, my Mom was prone to cull my toys as they accumulated, so it didn’t hang around until I could have better appreciated it.

I think Bob and Archer really only sound truly alike when they’re drunk and agitated. From Benjamin’s perspective it’s possible that he thinks of them as basically the same, but that the differences really grow out of the situations they’re typically placed in.

I sadly never happened to see that back during my trash movie binges of the ‘80s, though I do remember her fondly from the early Mike Figgis film, Liebestraum.

I believe he essentially kills the original Mr. MacGregor by shooting a peanut into his mouth (MacGregor being allergic), and the movie unfolds around Peter’s conflict with MacGregor’s nephew/heir. So, yeah, I’m really not seeing remorseless, homicidal Peter Rabbit as that much more family friendly.

My wife and I went so see Lincoln at a matinee years ago. There were only like a dozen people there, waiting around because the theater was still locked a few minutes before. Turns out the ticket clerk hadn’t shown up for work. The staff ended up opening the place and letting everyone see the various films for free,…

Even Kevin Spacey wasn’t immune to her charms... ;)

Definitely with you on Pyun — I generally have the sense that he’s trying to make the most of his miniscule budgets and the limited skills of his casts. I remember his Alien from L.A., (staring swimsuit model Kathy Ireland) fondly.

Fire, Inc., the band credited with performing Steinman’s songs, was apparently not just an ad-hoc group of session players, but rather the short-lived new wave band Face to Face (fronted by Laurie Sargeant), with Holly Sherwood providing harmonies and taking over lead vocals for Tonight is What it Means to Be Young.

I enjoyed all of the series, but I’ve never thought of season 5 as really part of the same story arc as the preceding 1-4. It’s more like a creative “riff” on the series proper — a sort of “what-if” sequel, rather than the story’s culmination.

Had their surname been “Smith”, the conversations would have had a lot less giggling to be heard over.

Camp Hero was apparently a coastal defense battery built soon after US entry into WWII, whose guns and control buildings were disguised as civilian structures in a manner similar to many British coastal defenses when German invasion was considered a threat. The disguised structures likely fueled rumors of “secret…