my arch-support brogans of whining

For those with plantar fasciitis of the soul?

I love my sandals of false superiority, and I intend to wear them until it's so cold that my toes can't stand it any more.

plantar fasciitis of the soul?

Exactly. My soul is all tired and worn-out and fallen.

And zombies really shouldn't be so scary because they're usually dim-witted and slow, but what's so unnerving about them to me is that they're dim-witted and slow.

Well, the zombies of the George Romero mold do seem to fall at the absolute nadir of Masahiro Mori's Uncanny Valley. We seem genetically or sociologically programmed to find them creepier than anything else.

OMG. So dead to me since Dracula. Didn't even remember he was in the movie.

I can't blame him for that one. All my Dracula hate is aimed squarely between Winona Ryder's enormous Manga cartoon character eyes. (Yes, I realize Keanu sucked, but it's not as if that was any huge surprise. And he didn't convince Coppolla that the moodiest horror novel of the late 19th century would be much better if it were a frickin' love story!)

My Dracula hatred is for whoever thought a movie was more fun without any subtext. Generally speaking, when a hairy beast shows up in the middle of a Victorian horror tale to have wild sex in the garden with a virginal blond girl, you know that there is no point in seeking any 'deeper meaning'.

I mean, okay, love poetry with the hairy beast, but fucking au naturel??

My Dracula hatred is for whoever thought a movie was more fun without any subtext.

Nutty, I think you just put your finger on why that movie bothered me, even though so many of my friends liked it. Any dracula movie should have killer subtext, and lots of sexual tension.

Actual on-screen sex is kind of the antithesis of sexual tension and subtext.

I dunno. The scene where Drac stares at Winona across the street and whispers, "See me." makes me come over all swoony.

Right, but the point was, Star Wars is based on a handful of Asian pictures, not on their western/Western siblings. Although now I have a vision in my head of Clint Eastwood with a sword, and that is entertaining.

Star Wars is such a mishmash though. It certainly is based on Samurai films (both C-3PO and R2D2 have specific precedents), but the end of the movie is taking from a WW2 movie about a bombing attack by uhm, Doolittle? (DXM?) And Han Solo is from the kind of adventure serial/pulp adventure that would be refined with the Indiana Jones movies. There are also some Knights in Armor movie bits, plus Prisoner of Zenda and like that.

I dunno. The scene where Drac stares at Winona across the street and whispers, "See me." makes me come over all swoony.

Heh. See, all my friends are sort of the same way, Beej. They all go all swoony at the "romance."

I'm just baffled at the part where you all gloss over the fact that it's a REALLY BAD MOVIE!

But as evidenced above, I have my own list of VERY BAD MOVIES that I love, so take my opinion on that for what it's worth.

My God. They made a sequel to Baby Geniuses.