P-C, are you familiar with the original show?

Not really. I knew the basics, I suppose. And the song. I did get that a lot of the weirdness was straight from the show, though.

its excesses seem joyful instead of cynical, and that makes a big difference

Definite joy.

Someone said it was an art-house experimental film masquerading as a summer tentpole, which... yeah.

Ha. I can see that. Just the crazy way all the scenes transition with floating heads and shit like that was just like WHAT ARE YOU DOING.

Not sure if this belongs in here or music, but did we hear about the Jeff Buckley biopic.

An exegesis of sexual subtext in “Predator”

Using post-freudian dialectical analysis, it becomes clear that the 1987 action film ‘Predator’ is an allegory for the gay male struggle to accept a differing sexual identity than is appropriate in a dominant hetero-normative cultural system.

Four seconds of enhanced ape. Thank you, WETA, for making the uncanny valley such a fun place to visit.

Not sure if this belongs in here or music, but did we hear about the Jeff Buckley biopic.

We did not. Fifty bucks says they use "Halleluah" during his drowning scene. Though actually "Song to the Siren" would be more apt.

Though actually "Song to the Siren" would be more apt.

(I prefer the This Mortal Coil version of that song. I am a heretic, I know.)

Directed by Ridley Scott's son who did Welcome to the Rileys with Melissa Leo, Kristen Stewart and that dude from The Sopranos.

Up for the lead is rumored to be R. Patt & James Franco. (Also JGL).

(I prefer the This Mortal Coil version of that song. I am a heretic, I know.)

It's a great version. But the lyrics themselves are about being lured to your death in water. I don't know if Jeff ever sang it, but, of course, it's his father's composition.

Up for the lead is rumored to be R. Patt & James Franco.

Franco's got the right look and could play him, but I'm a bit burned out on Mr. Franco right now.

Not sure if this belongs in here or music, but did we hear about the Jeff Buckley biopic.

I know people who knew him well. There could be actors portraying people I know. That will be weird.

Saw Hanna today. It was good, in a "spy thriller with a teenage girl who kills people right and left, but doesn't know how to deal with the modern world" kind of way.

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