One of my earliest memories is being at my local movies as a six year old, and my aunt pointing to the poster for Gremlins saying "I know it looks cute, but I already saw it and it's far too scary for you."

Where is the Big Red No when you need it?

See also "Masters of the Universe was worthy of those hundreds of hours of my time and money! Those little morals at the end of each episode were useful life lessons, not tedious and irrelevant moralizing. And that animation? It was varied, dammit! Varied and dynamic!"

'Social media generation' is right. I used to work with a girl who was almost exactly ten years younger than me. Not only did she not really remember life before the internet, she barely remembered life before MySpace/Facebook. That seemed like a big shift to me.

Beyond metaphors about the infantilization of the internet, what exactly is it supposed to signify? What's it called? It's Raining (Tiny) Men?

I feel the same way. When he was younger, he had that sort of loveable proto-slacker persona. Now it comes across more as "I have enough money and acclaim now. Henceforth, I shall only give a fuck when and where I deem that fucks should be given."

Don't forget that they funded all those Adam Sandler movies, too. Netflix giveth, and Netflix taketh away.

It was one of the most notorious flops of the 1940s, so I guess the answer to your question is "Nope. Not even with a hottie like Tyrone Power in the main role."

I knew two Mormon brothers in high school. Both very nice guys. One ended up going the mega-LDS route (ranting about Planned Parenthood, etc).

Yeah, I was about to say that I read a profile of the LDS missionaries in my town, and it was (from their point of view) ridiculously depressing. They managed to convert about two people, and one turned out to be a Chinese lady who didn't speak English and really didn't know what the heck was going on.

He seriously did consider joining up - she basically made it a requirement of the relationship ('I plan to marry a Mormon, HINT HINT') - but he was hardly a model LDS candidate. We're talking about a tattooed environmental scientist/surfer here. The idea of him going out on his mission or what have you … I just can't…

I actually know someone who was the non-LDS boy in this exact scenario in real life. It did not end well (which is to say that it ended exactly like the movie).

Even worse: a reimagining of 'Rebecca' meets a reimagining of 'The Fountainhead'.

Have we reached Peak Bill Murray yet?

Is it just me, or have there been a lot of AV Club articles recently that feel like they're just middle, with no beginning or end?

And to watch Shia Labeouf watching Shia Labeouf watching James Franco interviewing James Franco!

Then again, the night Vanilla Ice appeared on Saturday Night Live (or was it Letterman?) in the hammer-pants-and-tux combo with 'Word To Ya Mother' written on the back in silver was the night I finally successfully convinced a lot of my school friends that Vanilla Ice was terrible.

Tux jacket and bike pants: was it a step up or a step down from tux jacket and Hammer pants?

Yeah, it all happened very quickly. If 'Cherry Pie' had come out only a year or two later, there's no way anyone would have taken it seriously. We'd be talking about it in the context of the post Wayne's World Bohemian Rhapsody renaissance and out-and-out hair band parodies like Ugly Kid Joe.

This article is missing the crucial point that the song started out as a parody of cock-rock.