I fear Prince's vision of the future has irrevocably veered off tangentially from our own. Whither 1999?

To elaborate on my hyperbole: Let's say it's one of the 50 worst films I've ever seen. Is that reasonable enough? It just…it offended me on so many levels. It's not quite there with my own Queen of the Damned in-theater experience, but it's in the ball park. Same urge to storm out of the theater.

@Chico:

Word of mouth? Remember those mass walk-outs AV Club reported on a couple weeks ago. Also don't these huge blockbusters depend on repeat viewers? Fanboys might not have felt the urge to go again to a movie they walked out on the first time.

I know, I'm late
I just saw the Watchmen on Sunday.

The first Arcade Fire album makes me race through all my memories of being 6-7 years old. The entire album is filled with the whole dark-side-of-childhood aesthetic. How Spike Jonze knew this about me, I have no idea. But well done.

Leave irony out of my childhood please, Lemur.

Can we just go back to recommending late 70s post-punk albums to me that I've never heard of? That's the only reason I scroll down this low.

This trailer
makes me wish I were 10 again so the movie could help shape my personality.

Wow this is a nice thread (I mean it). Will the movie be this nice? I hope so.

Yikes, more space dust: "How to cook an International Meal with an Unsuspecting Intern as a Guest. There is nothing important after this as all that is below this doesn't collect space dust. Except, of course, for the subtitle, to be announced right here in its three-worded entirety, 'We Eat Interns.'"

However, the reason I'm so late to them is because a lot of their songs remind me strongly of an ex-girlfriend who broke my heart. So, don't envy me?

The first album
by Bodies of Water: "Ears Will Pop and Eyes Will Blink" is pretty much everything I want in an album. Weird, poppy, fuzzy, rockin, funny, Beach Boys-y… I love every song on that album, which is surprising given the range of styles. And to boot, they're some kind of mystical Christians!

I'm super late to Imogen Heap and somehow have not had Hide and Seek ruined for me, so I think it's quite pretty. Envy me?

Yes. Stay Positive is a wonderful album and some days I just listen to "Slapped Actress" on repeat. I think it may be the best album closer since "When the Levee Breaks".

Wow our venn diagram has a big center section, Pernicious Canard. I've been pushing that First Aid Kit song pretty hard lately.

Yeah, it's hard for me to hate on the obviously talented and friendly Nic Cage, but damn is it easy to hate on his movies. I usually get by even in his worst ones by picturing him rehearsing the hell out of every line.

I saw a hipster douchebag crying his eyes out at a Sigur Ros show. Wouldn't have made fun of him, but this guy earlier yelled at us to shut the fuck up. On the one hand, we were laughing and talking pretty loudly in the front row. On the other hand, he yelled at us before the show had even begun.

Who the fuck is Hamlet?

Call your dad, TomWaits. He wants to talk just as much as you do.