He was clearly going to shoot first...

Works every time, though.

I generally agree with your sentiment. This cover does, however, does have better enunciation on the “Kilimanjaro” lyric, so that it doesn’t sound like it’s “rising like a lepress above the Serengeti”.

I didn’t “just add” anything. “family friendly horror” was the term used in the previous sentence to which “the formula” refers, and the conclusion of the paragraph describes this film (appropriately) as an “ooky-spooky, creepy-crawly Halloween treat for horror-fans-in-training”. It’s true that Spielberg is good at…

Definitely a lot of scares, modulated for a younger audience, which is why I referenced it as a “lite” sci-fi suspense film. But “horror”?

Steven Spielberg and his Amblin Entertainment banner arguably perfected the [Family-Friendly Horror] formula back in the ’80s with films like E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and Gremlins,

Indeed. Learning everyone’s internet secrets might actually have kind of a bonding effect —

Clearly one of the awards should be presented by the Mitchum Brothers... Who would then wait around while Candie wanders off with the envelope.

I’m very unhappy about what’s happened to audrey horne.

“Happy Birthday” did, in fact, get a fair amount of MTV play back in the day, but the rest of this pack decidedly did not. Of the honorable mentions, I think I might have seen “Spellbound” a time or two, though Siouxsie never got as much MTV play as one might presume. “The Unguarded Moment” probably got the heaviest…

And I think Göring originally quoted it more-or-less directly, but it somehow got garbled in translation into “reach for my revolver” — perhaps because “Browning” is, ironically, not really an accepted American slang term for “handgun” the way it is in Europe.

<i>She stalks them through drug labs and piñata warehouses.</i>

I remember my father being a fan of it when I was barely past toddler-age, built the Aurora plastic model kit of the flying saucer back in the ‘70s, and enjoyed the reruns I finally saw (including Ms. Pleshette’s, I believe on the USA Network) back in the late ‘80s. It really was kind of an unsung ancestor of the…

If you though she was beautiful in the ‘70s on Newhart’s show, see if you can find the old episode of The Invaders where she played a stripper.

“Hi, this is Bob - I ain’t got no body - Hope!”

As far as the dangling ending, that’s what I was getting at in regarding it as a possible producer’s suggestion. Though I think it really just amounts to a pretty common metaphor for teenage alienation, in this case also playing out as a helpful deus ex machina.

My impression of the “murder in Detroit shows up on Nevada TV news” was that someone in law enforcement had connected the dots between it, and the incidents in the strip club and at the poker game in Nebraska — that also being why Special Agent Carrie was so quick to arrive at the Sheriff’s office.

I saw this at a preview Monday night in Philadelphia, and I thought there were definite tonal problems. Some related to spoiler elements that I won’t mention, except to say that the jolly road picture elements of the mid-section of the film are at odds with the sadness of what comes before. But I thought the second…

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I suspect it was like Jaws. They had technical problems with the boat, so that had to reduce its screen time — tease with the boat... build up audience anticipation before the last minute payoff...