Short of a movie, it’s a natural fit for RPG campaigns — a natural for women wanting to play criminals in Call of Cthulhu, “classic” or “gaslight” settings.

Similarly, it’s been noted that among serial killers, men tend to have “hunting” M.O.s, while women tend to be “trappers”, letting victims come to them. Whether such behaviors are innate tendencies or cultural impositions is, of course, its own political issue.

Your take seems very close to my non-comprehension of the prequel version — Why the hell does accidentally killing a random Jedi functionary somehow enslave Anakin to Palpatine, as opposed to pissing him off and inspiring him to kill Palpatine? I think it works in Jedi, though, because of what is, for most viewers, a…

Which is fine, but it’s fairly amazing that he could persuade people to invest a billion dollars in that proposition. ;)

I get that Empire is considered the best of the originals, in spite of my own prejudice against cliffhanger endings. And I even understand the “by-the-numbers” criticisms of Jedi. But I’ve always hesitated to call it “weak” because of the masterful execution that Breihan acknowledges — particularly the three-fold…

I agree on Vader’s expressiveness, but don’t forget to credit James Earl Jones voice work in Empire and Jedi as part of it.

I think the key weakness of all of the Disney “post-quels” was Abrams’ decision to leave the storyline essentially open and make it up as the directors went along. It’s baffling to me that the producers, committing over a billion dollars all-told to such a project, would agree to shrug at having a clear road map for…

The end of Jedi was arranged by the Emperor as an elaborate device to achieve the corruption of Luke to either replace or “reinforce” his father. He doesn’t throw Luke in a cell or have him executed, because either would push Vader to the point where he might turn on the Emperor.

Which, previously, got worse and more omnipresent than 50s rock nostalgia nonsense...

The Dragon’s Lair/Cliff Hanger games really prefigured the modern trope of watching game playthroughs on YouTube. I had zero interest back in the day in playing a game that just involved memorizing joystick patterns, but I absolutely enjoyed taking a break at the arcade, standing back, and watching a real “pro” play…

This was actually pretty awesome, if really just a parody of samurai movie tropes. It benefits a lot from my having had the misfortune of seeing last April Fools Day’s “Bushworld Adventures” Rick And Morty short awhile back, which was... excruciatingly Australian.

I think there was one segment — of a helicopter chasing the heroes through a sewer — that was from some other Lupin III film or special, but most was indeed Castle of Cagliostro.

The link shows that indeed they were, and somewhere notes that, contemporary with the “Mars Attacks” cards (and before the dinosaurs), Topps released a “Civil War News” series that was also notably bloody. The reviewers suggest that there was less parental objection to the civil war cards in spite of their gore, becaus…

They ultimately did, and it did indeed fail, but it seemed to take a ridiculous amount of agonized debate to get to that point. Sure it’s a big step to launch nuclear weapons, but less so when they’re the only weapons you have that aren’t obviously laughable given the scale of the threat.

I didn’t really dislike ID, but I’ve always been vexed by the absurdity of everyone’s handwringing about using nuclear weapons in the face of the threat — These ships are absurdly huge! Attacking them with fighter planes is like ordering cops to destroy a stadium with their pistols! And they’re systematically…

It really does, in the sense you point out, stand out as the most faithful film adaption of a set of trading cards ever made.

The Nightmare Before Christmas wasn’t technically directed by Burton, though he clearly has creative ownership.

If you’re the sort of guy who likes extended soaks in a tub that’s too short for you, it doesn’t seem like that much of a stretch that you’d have a phone in there -- though you’d probably have it hooked up to a wall jack rather than somehow running under your tub.

Just want to emphasize that Night of the Creeps is definitely “Watch This” worthy itself.

Not just “vibes” in that one... Pretty much a whole entourage.