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My initial reaction was that this is obviously intended to be funny. But I just don't see it. Without even bothering to check, I just assumed that it was written by a woman. After Slash Man's reply, I checked it out.

Sure nuff, Joanne Starer.

Women aren't funny.

Agreed. I doubt it would've been a big problem. Raimi took a certain amount of grief over Peter's organic web shooters but it subsided soon enough. I don't think revelations involving Peter's parents would've been such a big deal for most people.

Interestingly, Lillard is also set to reprise his role as Stu in Scream 7. I'm not sure how that's going to work.

It's loose canon that he survived the first film. The booklet for the mega Scream "trilogy" DVD set from 2002 (or so) listed off all the Ghostface killers up to that point.

Among them, I think Stu was listed as a survivor. In any case, Kevin Williamson's original plan for Scream 3 called for Stu to give an encore performance to close out the trilogy. Obviously, Scream 3 and the saga as a whole went a different way.

Another interesting thing about the Scream set's booklet is that it indicted someone else.

Scream 3 suggests that Roman acted alone. But the movie itself makes it basically impossible for Roman to have been a solo act. Otherwise, whole sequences make no sense. Well, the booklet clarifies that. The character Angelina Tyler was Roman's unindicted co-conspirator. Furthermore, the booklet lists her as alive. Either Roman's attack on her was faked or else she somehow survived it. Meaning, she was never caught, she's still alive and may yet come back to menace Sydney.

I anticipate being busy for the next few days. But I already planning to rewatch The Conversation (maybe as a double feature with Enemy Of The State, which I consider to be an unindicted sequel to The Conversation), The Unforgiven and possibly The Poseidon Adventure. So, if I end up rewatching them, it can be in honor of Hackman.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/oscar-winning-actor-gene-hackman-wife-found-dead-santa-fe-home

Hackman, his wife Betsy Arakawa and their dog were all found dead in their Sante Fe home. Despite all three of them seemingly dying at the same time, apparently there is no foul play suspected in their passings.

Whatever the case may be, RIP Gene Hackman.

Finished up the season. Really likeed it. The scene with Harry and Brian was a standout for the entire season.

Sure hope there's a second season.

As a more general note, I've always liked Christian Slater. He's always welcome in pretty much anything. Every time he shows up, I don't miss James Remar pretty much at all.

It's understandable if some people still aren't sold on the entire Dexter- Original Sin concept. But I can't knock the casting of DOS pretty much at all. Everyone in the cast gets done episode after episode.

Getting caught up on DOS. Just finished Business And Pleasure.

The "fan service" concept gets such a bad rap most of the time. But personally, I never saw the problem with it. I certainly don't see a problem with it in today's media environment.

And this episode has quite a lot. I suppose that actually was Brian Moser in the restaurant back in the second or third episode. Seems obvious enough. It also suggests an even nastier side of Brian what with the fingernail polish and everything that season 01 of the main show never really explained. The pieces are there waiting for you to put them together in... kind of sinister way.

Frankly, I'm enjoying DOS.

Between the trailers for Gunn's Superman, Fantastic Four: First Steps and Daredevil: Born Again, I'm actually cautiously optimistic about multiple superhero projects simultaneously.

I think it's been ten years since the last time I could say that.

I remain convinced that the superhero genre is, at best, on life support. But if those three projects pan out, it will show everyone that the genre still has life in it.

That's something to celebrate, tbh.

Irony? But from that exact same issue...



Afaik, this was John Byrne's first professional work on Superman. Strange that it pops up in what a lot of fans consider to be the last hurrah for Pre-Crisis Superman.

This guy does an extended retrospective of the two Schumacher films. Some of his conclusions are obvious, of course. But others are less obvious. All in all, worth watching.