Vaya con dios, sir.
Vaya con dios, sir.
I think there's a good episode of an American version of "Black Mirror" in that scenario.
Yes, but I thought for some reason Elfman *arranged* the score for the film version.
As a young kid I was a bit of Marvel partisan/fanboy - Elfman's Batman theme went a long way to opening me up to what that character was about, and thus what the whole line was, and I still love the music that came out of both of those shows.
Yeah. And that's been a bummer for me in the superhero renaissance/overkill. (And, disclaimer: I like the Marvel movies, it's like a very expensive TV show based on the stuff I fed on as a kid.)
Same. Hate football, personally, could give a flying fuck, but the conversation around this protest and the broader question of the culture surrounding the sport interest me.
I'm looking forward to his ginormous book. I'm very curious to see how it turned out.
And he'd be the first to agree with you, re: Killing Joke.
I'm lately a little weirded out by the characters I choose to personally invest my emotional energy into in TV shows. I am often burned by it - poory Anya from Buffy! - but I can't help myself: Pearl seems to be drawing me into a familiar orbit.
Yeah. I never dug Spaceballs as a kid, even though I loved Star Wars, but I still enjoy the Naked Gun movies, even though I never did and still don't hold any particular fondness for the cop story milieu.
I had no idea Dragonslayer was Disney product! As a young nerd in the 80s/90s I was hungry for movies that captured some of the stuff that the comics/books I was reading had, and Dragonslayer was one of the few I was able to get my hands on that came close. I guess I haven't revisited it mostly because Neverending…
Addendum to my above comment: I think you're right - but I think it's because it sorta "flipped" - mainstream adult pop culture could be very weird and wild in the 70s, but got very bland in the 80s (I am generalizing of course) and kid's culture got a lot weirder.
I'm a kid of the 80s and I may be way off here, but it kinda seems like most of the kids/family entertainment in the 70s was… bland, maybe?
That's a smart way of putting it - once I described it as (good) Family Guy for kids, but Always Sunny is a much closer fit. It's an amazingly cynical show. One of my nieces loves it, but sometimes it's honestly too depressing for me.
That Simpsons joke about "Watchmen Babies in V for Vacation" wasn't far off, was it?
I quite liked Red State's story, too - the ending, especially.
I've never even been to Maine, but I have a weird fascination with LePage, mostly due to his attitude towards drug users. (Basically: "Let them die!") Though other stuff is applicable too.
Thanks for the recommendation. I should give it a go. King is one of those people that's had a huge impact on my life, but it's been mostly indirect - via hearing about his stories/movies based on his stories as a kid, or the movies themselves (the aforementioned Stand By Me or The Shining).
I was way too afraid as a kid to read any of King. ('Cept this one scene a friend passed around from like Thinner, I think, where the dude's wife sucks his cock while he's driving? this was apparently scandalous to 7th grade us and worth trading like banned literature.)
It is very odd to hear the guy that dressed Fish Mooney up in whatever she was wearing in the finale and gave her - what, mind control powers because why not I guess? - talk about how superheroes are too unreal to work on TV.