Vehement disagreement
I'm not exactly sure why you thought the movie was bad. It had no moral center? I'm not sure that's the point—both these kids had their lives set for them before they were old enough to make their own choices. That's not about good and bad, it's about how where they started keeps determining…

Ow! My Balls!
Actually, I thought one of the cooler parts of Idiocracy was how Judge made it clear people getting hit in the balls IS funny, but if that's the metaphorical equivalent of every single show you watch, that's when you've got a problem.

My advice
Watch High Fidelity until you realize other peoples' crap taste in no way threatens your own enlightened viewing habits.

Demolition Man
Maybe it's got a little too much violence to qualify (though it's not really the gory kind, so maybe not), but Demolition Man is probably my favorite "good" movie, at least of the action variety.

Wish I could take credit
It was a Simpsons reference to McGarnicle, I think, the loose cannon cop who broke all the rules but always got the job done. House could be no more than that and it would still be decent due to Hugh Laurie and its sense of humor, but I think it's got a lot more going on than all this talk…

It means he gets results, you stupid chief!
I don't think House's formula is a flaw, really, because rather than using it for no more than a reliable method to create drama every week, they mess with it often enough to use it as a tool for understanding its characters. Not to mention it's usually cut through with…

Leave House out of this
Honestly. Not only is it funny and well cast, but they do a pretty good job running parallels within its admittedly restrictive formula that give it a lot of interesting turns beyond "House mocks and rejects his team's theories, his first couple suggestions turn out wrong, then in a flash of…

Come on
You can't call out a comic book movie for having melodramatic dialogue. These people are busy saving our planet from the apocalyptic schemes of supervillains. They can't help getting a little full of themselves sometimes.

Slither
Slither was pretty damn great. I had no complaints or qualms about it, but I just couldn't find a way to work it into the top 5.

The Descent
I'm a little surprised it didn't contend for even the also-rans here. Between the claustrophobic dread of the spelunking and the doppelgangery terror once the monsters showed up, I thought it was the best horror film since Pitch Black, and the outright scariest movie I've seen since.. well, maybe since…

Got another
Weird Al's "Dare to be Stupid" in Transformers during the chase scene on the garbage planet.

Thin premise?
You mean you haven't heard that recent commercial that uses "Stuck in the Middle With You" and thought WHAT? They're using a song about gasoline- and razor-based torture to SELL things?

You see, it used to be milk
"The ephemerality of that moment is evident to us, but not to those who made those aerobics videos."

If that's true
They would have been better if they weren't done with the crutch of hair metal.

Hater's right
Most relevant comment here:

Well, why not?
Art by committee works great with movies, doesn't it? I get more excited with every name I see in the "written by" credits.

Blue Velvet
Not to veer too far off track, but I did like Blue Velvet, and like it more the more I think about it. I still think Mulholland Dr. was bunk, though. Blue Velvet's sidelong glimpses into the strangeness of the world were compelling and uncanny, but Mulholland Dr. felt like it had no keys at all. In any…

Great talk
I'm normally pretty intrigued by your discussions, but all the (good-natured) personal insults in this one had me laughing, too.

Ablative
I was unfamiliar with it myself, and dictionary.com's grammatical definitions were all but useless. However, a ways down the page, I found another description that suddenly set things in order:

On further consideration
I don't think Way of the Gun owes as much to Tarantino as to western and noir fatalism and David Mamet.