Romero literally created a subgenre. Other than Stoker or Shelley, how many filmmakers or storytellers can claim that?

Born & raised in the Bronx, but later lived in Canada.

Well...you're kinda right and kinda not. Night of the Living Dead only referred to them as ghouls, but in Dawn of the Dead, Peter (Ken Foree) refers to them as "zombies" during the 3rd act. That might be the only instance in Romero's original trilogy though.

An absolute masterpiece. A scathing satiric takedown of libertarian and capitalistic ideals masquerading as an ultraviolent action movie. One of those rare movies that is almost a parody of itself and knows it.

I feel this guy. I used to eat the marshmallow pieces in the Lucky Charms last so I'd feel some kind of self-discipline rush.

Love to see it. It’s always good for baseball when small-market, frugal-payroll teams succeed.

1987 is in the conversation of best movie years ever.
This, Robocop, Predator, Full Metal Jacket, The Untouchables, Raising Arizona, Good Morning Vietnam, Hellraiser, Moonstruck, Overboard, InnerSpace, The Running Man, Lethal Weapon, Evil Dead II, The Princess Bride, Spaceballs and more...

Exactly. This is why I don't lament NASA spending or a certain level of military spending (something other than bombs). We can thank it for a multitude of everyday civilian/consumer/medical technologies.

Go after Palantir first, please and thank you.

That's hung very well.

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

Not to reduce them to this... but Valerie Perrine and Adrienne Barbeau were my introduction to the magnificence of cleavage as a young boy. It was like how some people feel hearing The Beatles for the 1st time, or those TikTok videos of toddlers first tasting bacon.

"Sinners sucked, it just ripped off From Dusk Til Dawn".

I HATE this take (and it ALWAYS pops up in FB comment sections). Yes, it has vampires trapping people in a bar/club setting and has 2 brothers. That's IT.
Also FDTD already "borrows" heavily from Bava's DEMONS and VAMP. You dumb, dumb bastards.

The Sheridan brand needs a snappy post-credits animation a la Stephen J. Cannell. I miss those.

And EASILY the best acting of Wahlberg's career when Dirk experiences maybe the first/only moment of self-awareness in his entire life. The extended close-up on his face registers amusement, reflection and finally panic.

Upset? Wasn’t he the favorite going in?

I'm torn between my annoyance of Gen-Z watching everything with subtitles, and making this inclusive and accessible. I'll defer to the latter and declare this a bad thing because I'm not a self-centered dick.

Spielberg is at his worst when he's actively trying to appeal to the zeitgeist and be "cool". From what little I've seen, Disclosure Day seems to be more "adult" sci-fi, but we'll see.

Unless the party reboots itself with candidates like Kasich or Schwarzenegger (pro-science/environment, fiscally conservative, socially liberal), I wouldn't even consider voting GOP ever again.

I was a Gen X Reagan Republican. Voted for Bush(es) 3 times. Now, I would vote for a literal ham sandwich if it ran against a Republican on any level. I'm not kidding even a little.

I always thought Commando had massive legacy sequel potential. Just start with the simple and maybe too obvious premise of Matrix being the one kidnapped and held this time and Jenny has to save HIM. 3rd act is spent with them fighting together.

100%. It’s one of the reasons why the NFL is still the most popular league in the land. One game per week and they’re all extremely easy to find even with more games streaming. It’s nearly impossible to casually follow the NBA & MLB now.

Can confirm. I saw Jaws 3D at a drive-in when I was 8 and did indeed fall asleep.

Oh damn, I didn't know that they let her go. Horror nerds like me (us) always mentally did the "DiCaprio point" anytime those Crest ads popped up.

My wife and I watched it together and when the credits rolled, I didn't say a word and just marched to our upstairs bathroom, closed the door and sobbed. She knew exactly what was happening and let me have my privacy before hugging me afterward. She said she wasn't surprised.

It opened up a pressure valve in me that I didn't know needed releasing. I turned 50 this past year and had a health scare that got me thinking about my mortality and my life as a whole.
When it ended, I absolutely sobbed. A film hasn't made me cry like that since I saw E.T. as a little boy.