Under the Skin, especially, is one of my favorite modern films. It's very quiet and artsy, but there's nothing else like it, and Johansson does a great job with a very restrained, almost dialogue-free performance.

Absolutely! I think it's great, just also pretty gross and sleazy, in a very necessary way. I love how brutally straight it plays a lot of its tropes, like how the "certain something" that the protagonist has that makes her special and beautiful is just that she's 16, or the decision to abandon metaphor and go full…

Nah, the Hellraiser franchise has been milked pretty dry.

The Neon Demon started out as this project before Refn decided to go in a different direction and jettison the original story.

It would have been great, but I get the feeling that Glazer is very independent and methodical— he's only made three movies in the past 15 years, all of which were odd, singular experiences. He doesn't seem like he'd work well with a big studio.

Oh god no! Sorry, I forgot that Lucy was brain dead action with a sci-fi premise. I was referring to Her and Under the Skin.

Here's the thing, dude— I never mentioned Marvel or offered my opinion on them. I do wish that Marvel cast more actors of color, as I said, but you are, again, bringing up the MCU as your trump card even though I told you it's not relevant to me. I do think that a movie that actively traffics in stereotypes and racial…

Keep in mind, Raimi was going to give us Bruce Campbell as Mysterio and Malkovich as The Vulture. This is the future Sony denied us.

This is the third time I've had to say this to you over the various times we've interacted on this site: I'm not a Marvel fan and I've only seen a handful of their movies. Do you know that there are movies that exist besides Marvel and DC? Can you understand that someone can dislike the DCU for reasons other than…

I didn't forget about them, I just think that having one-third of a movie's non-white, non-American characters not be grotesque caricatures doesn't qualify a movie as progressive. And while I'd like to see more films with more diverse leads, I'll take a movie with a white male lead over one where people have…

The last two sci-fi movies she did were also two of the best sci-fi movies ever made, so my interest is definitely piqued by her involvement.

You mean the movie where the Australian man was a drunken boomerang criminal, the Japanese woman wore a Japanese flag on her face and was a magical samurai named Katana, the Latino man was a hot-blooded gangbanger, and the black guy was a primitive monster who loved BET?

I'm only passingly familiar with the original but I dig the trailer that used "Enjoy the Silence." Looks weird and cool, could be good.

To make Dafoe look more normal and less like a horrible death-god.

Really? El-P's a huge junkie for dystopian fiction and that kind of stuff. My best friend got mildly stoned with him once after a show and they talked about Philip K. Dick the whole time.

I'm fuckin magic in fact I'm the warlock of talk, I got a unicorn horn for a —stop.

The first time I heard El-P was in his guest verses on Aesop Rock tracks, and when I bought I'll Sleep When You're Dead and opened the CD booklet to this slightly doughy ginger white guy it left me incredibly confused.

It was also, like, at least a decade and three El-P solo records before RTJ formed, so I don't know how that gets mixed up.

That's especially dumb because I've seen Miami connection, so I know that Taekwondo is the key to spiritual peace, kicking ass, and getting letters from your dad.

Say what you will about everything else, I'm not sure there's ever been better casting than Dafoe as Ryuk.