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Look at it this way - he could have replaced John Belushi with Jim Belushi. That really would have been the final insult.

This is a wild one. Would be tons of fun for the show.

Best episode or greatest episode?

Yeah, apparently Spaihts is back in for the follow-up, so who knows where that might go.

I imagine Ghostbusters 3 won't happen anyway because Bill Murray has already said it will be a cold day in hell and everyone knows he's the draw. Are they really going to make a movie with The Other Three?

I think the biggest problem (despite the aforementioned plot/editing issues) was one of tone. They couldn't decide whether Prometheus was a Science-Fiction movie or a Horror movie. I'm generalizing here, but Sci-Fi generally concerns itself with asking Big Questions about the nature of existence, what it means to be human, our place in the universe, etc. It's intellectual. Horror is interested in terrifying you (or shocking you). It's visceral. The original Alien was a horror movie that just happened to take place in a science-fiction context. It followed horror rules. it had interesting concepts buried within, but it was mostly about running away from scary things in the dark. And it maintained that tone throughout. If it had been a Big Questions movie, they would have talked about the Space Jockey, they would have dived into the origins of the eggs, etc. But they knew what they were going for and stuck to it. In horror, people do things because the plot needs them to. There's a reason why People Doing Stupid Things In Horror Movies is such a cliche. Even when a movie is skewering that cliche, it still tends to indulge in it (Scream, for example). Horror movies need people to open the hatch in the floor leading to the dark, scary basement, no matter how completely stupid that is. Sci-Fi expects the characters can do dumb things, but it's usually because of some fatal flaw or hubris or they don't have the complete story. Sci-Fi allows for characters to get lost, but it's because the compass fails or the tricorder is experiencing interference, not because the geologist responsible for mapping the alien pyramid is too high to remember where he's at. Prometheus probably would have been better if it had picked one or the other. As it was, the constant switching between genres kind of gave me whiplash. That being said, I actually liked the Science-Fiction part of the movie. Its reach exceeded its grasp, but I like that it at least tried to reach. It's also worth remembering that you had a script by Jon Spaihts that was apparently a more straight-up Alien prequel with lots of clear connections to that story (and more horror-ish), and then you had Damon Lindelhof come in and write a script that was more about the Engineers and What It Means To Be Human (leaning closer to Sci-Fi), and that might explain why the movie can't decide what it wants to be. Or none of this is right and I'm just typing a lot of nonsense.

Oh, I can't agree with that. Spies LIke Us is hilarious. That's top form Aykroyd and Chase.

Really? I actually thought it was nicely done. I don't remember anyone doing anything especially stupid or especially odd, but I haven't seen it recently.

I liked him in 30 Days of Night. Actually, that's probably the best I've ever seen good old Hartnett, though to be honest I'm not sure that movie was terribly demanding on him.

Well, I have seen the movie, so no, I still don't think it would work even though I believe you are a trustworthy person. If they did do it, it would be one of the most critically well-received movies they've done (just below Fast Five on Rotten Tomatoes).

Aykroyd was actually a rap early adopter. He put a lot of rap & hip-hop artists in his film soundtracks before it was such a commonplace thing. This doesn't mean we should forgive him for the horrors he has perpetuated on us, but it's a fun fact.

It does have plot problems and features some of the dumbest smart people in a movie ever, but I don't think it would work.

Ahhh okay, I thought there were stories she was sleeping with everyone on set or something.

This and Demolition Man were on tonight, and oh my, they really do need to do these. They are fun-bad, as opposed to please-let-me-die-bad, like Uwe Boll.

Wait, what is 'full on whore mode'?

The R-cut must take out the sex, because I don't see how it could be an R with actual sex in it.

Not exactly a meme, but I feel it's in the same spirit...

It has actual sex in it, not just simulated scenes, so I'm fairly certain it's an NC-17 (the equivalent of the old X).

It's far from amazing, but it's actually not that bad. And weirdly relevant, given our current immigration debate.

I think Paul or Jason have mentioned this movie before. I fully expect it to make it into an episode sometime soon.

Kim was hilariously crass. Sometimes disgustingly so, but mostly hilariously so.