They handed out stacks of the Dune glossaries at the theater, not just in the DVD. I remember a friend of mine grabbed a stack of them, and we were delighted to get Christmas presents wrapped in them several years later.

I found him truly excruciating back then, and have a literal unpleasant nervous tremor at the thought of him getting more media exposure after all these years.

I remember thinking Cronenberg was really creepily great in it, but that Charles Haid (better known as “Officer Renko” on Hill Street Blues) managed to chew the scenery vehemently as the (Canadian) redneck sheriff enough to seriously diminish everything else.

Either that or the somewhat more concise, Weaveworld.

The grandaddy of “make up the short weight” schemes like this was the 1960s “Salad Oil Scandal —

I think that’s a good percentage of “realistic” war movies.

Worst... screenplay... ever!

I thought I recalled that E.T. itself was originally conceived of as a horror movie, so this may not have seemed like such a reach to Spielberg, et al., at the time it was discussed.

Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco Treat!

Bob Barker might have been good, even not that many years ago, but at 98, he’d probably be costly to insure.

Nah, it wasn’t “padding” from Jackson’s perspective, it was his self-indulgence with a studio blank check. All those overlong sequences were lovingly done, however much they wore out our welcome. The infamous bug scene was what you get when the director of Dead Alive/Braindead gets a chance to resurrect a deleted…

That really was a pleasant surprise for me. Kong could arguably be his best role.

A teenage Anakin in the first film would also have set up a nice symmetry with the original trilogy.

Within the Woods has it’s own Wikipedia page, which explains that it’s not an adaptation, and the only especially Lovecraftian element is the “Book of the Dead” concept.

For all “decisions have consequences” was in RPG vogue years ago, it would seem like personal, as opposed to factional, relationships would have been a great place to demonstrate that. There may be games that went that way, but I’m not aware of them.

That’s the Sondheim DLC.

Or a log. They have so many stories.

I can absolutely see it. You only have to tweak Deadpool a little to get there.

Based on everybody’s all-too-true story.

I seem to recall contest offers of tickets to “The Big Game” as prizes. That seems to me like it shouldn’t require dancing around copyright since it’s just a statement of fact what the tickets are for, but I guess they might actually enforce it against different uses of the term in the same announcement.