Based on the debates I saw, Lincoln Chafee, Martin O'Malley, and Jim Webb weren't at least thinking anything.

You know what I love about the writing of Jason? He's got the exact same hilarious tic as Kalinda wherein someone asks, "Who are you?", clearly not being literal, but more broadly meaning, "What are you doing here? What do you want? Can you go away?", and then he says his name and they're totally placated by that.

You expect anything less from Ingmar Turdman?

That's really interesting. I tend to resent actors who work with post-Soon-Yi Woody Allen, but it would never occur to me to feel the same way about a sound mixer, even though you're absolutely right: it's the same thing. I suspect I don't judge behind-the-scenes talent because:
1. I'm ignorant about the film industry;
2…

"Those few he did make, diminished the 'feminist message' Levin put into his book vis a vis Rosemary." Care to elaborate? I don't remember really any changes - it's a remarkably faithful adaptation, as you say.

Yeah, no, I'm definitely on the "pedantic" side of the line here. I just thought it was disappointing that "don't let it touch you" was one of the rules he lays out (multiple times, I believe), and then it does touch her, and then she's fine. It's a quibble.

God, that guy was stupid and I'm glad he's dead.

I just saw the movie, and I know this is going to sound like weak sauce/lame apologia if you don't like it, but I read satire into some of the parts that were objectively stupid. "Hey, this thing shapeshifts, can take on the form of your parents if it wants to, and is invisible! There's only one thing that can stop…

I thought it was a waste, and a breaking of the Chekhov's Gun rule, that the first guy tells her, "Don't let It touch you!", and then It touches her several times with no discernible aftereffects. But even that, you can imagine is just one of the random people in the It chain not *knowing* what the rules are. It's not…

"the background", "your house"…same diff.

Now I've watched the whole movie, and, yeah, I liked it quite a lot. It doesn't scare me in quite the way "Proxy" did (man, if that movie had ended at the halfway point, it would have been a masterpiece), but this clip is a lot stronger in context, for sure.

I'm all about atmospheric horror, am a huge Mike D'Angelo fan, and am very easily primed—-for example, I found every single second of the first half of "Proxy" scarier than the actual scary stuff from most horror films, just because of the tone (and probably Mike's recommendation, and my suggestibility). This clip, as…

Six-year-old me was drastically more frightened by the book cover than older me ever has been by any version of The Shining. I eventually "accidentally" ripped it, because…WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THAT KID OH MY GOD.

"Eyes Wide Shut" is a stoner classic too!

As somebody pretty steeped in all three versions of "The Shining", I was really taken aback and put off by Roger Ebert's Great Movies review of Kubrick's version, which suggests that there are no ghosts or monsters, and that it's just a straight-up case of cabin fever and that all three of them are hallucinating…

I agree! All of his movies up through "Eyes Wide Shut" in 1999 were good, but then 2001 hit, and…oh. Oh, never mind.

I agree. There are so many different kinds of horror, and Nicholson in "The Shining" is a perfectly valid one. I'm reminded of "The Heroine" by Patricia Highsmith, which is incredibly terrifying, and which proceeds from a premise fairly similar to what Nicholson-bashers hate about "The Shining": "obviously unwell…

I agree. Though I sympathized with him in places, I've never liked novel Jack. For God's sake, the *first words of the book* are him seething with rage about how much he hates the guy who's offering him a job. He's an angry, violent, child-abusing alcoholic, and King soapboxing every few pages about how despite every…

I agree! And it doesn't have to be that way. It's 100% plausible that a trillionaire like "Reese Dipple" would…well, change his name, to start with, but after changing his name, would delegate some stuff to Peter Gallagher. But the show went out of its way to establish a reality in which he didn't do that—-in which…

Yeah, this news that he always writes in the same style of "House of Leaves" kind of reminds me of when, after "All About That Bass", Meghan Trainor's second single came out and it was needlessly peppered with references to "bass". Like, you're good at this one specific thing that you do, which actually has very…