I'd rather see Michael Keaton get another 21 chances over anyone else on this list.

That's nothing compared to my almost-three-decade wait for a third "Alien" movie.

And now I see this is the topic of the thread directly below this one. Carry on, then.

This. I've been reading through the entire comment thread to see if anyone brings this up. There are THREE FUCKING PLOTS about white men falling for their servants/underlings/employees. This is FUCKED UP. There are ten (or so) stories and three of them have this structure? That's… unfortunate. (And it's also just…

That's five saving graces.

I don't hate Matt Dillon. I still have a lot of love for him. But he's been in some bad, bad movies — far more bad than good at this point. There was a time, based on my goodwill towards him due to Drugstore Cowboy and Singles, that I would seek out any and all of his movies. That time has passed. It was probably…

Maybe not. I wanted to say it was his one-word screen debut, but IMDb tells me he was in a movie before this one. If you can't trust IMDb, whom can you trust?

"An episode about the death of a beloved cast member is never going to be great TV."

That shot is superb, yes, one of my favorites as well.  But it also (deliberately) visually references the shot of Brigid O'Shaughnessy descending in the elevator after Sam Spade sells her out at the end of The Maltese Falcon, which was (of course) the first movie directed by Angelica Huston's father.  This just makes…

Absolutely.  More than a movie sequel, more than a TV series, I've always wanted more novels.  Start with "Bastardy Proves a Spur."

The screenwriter, Earl Mac Rauch, actually wrote a "novelization" of the movie which is in actuality an incredibly complex riff on the old Doc Savage serials, complete with themes and subplots entirely absent from the movie, as well as references to (fictional) other books in the Banzai series.  One critic has called…

But- but-  if it can survive a drop from a plane intact, how do the natives get it open?

Well, I haven't seen the Neil Young concert film, but his Talking Heads concert film is (justifiably) considered a classic of the genre.  Also, Something Wild is pretty damned terrific.  So is Melvin and Howard.  Yeah, I'd have to say I AM a fan of Demme's films.  Except maybe for The Truth About Charlie.  Yeah, that…

Raymond Carver reference FTW.

It can not be overstated how awful City Slickers 2 is, and I say that as a fan of the first City Slickers (I'm sorry, but that VCR business still kills).  Besides hitting the reset button on Jack Palance's (dead) character, it features a joke wherein Billy Crystal has sex with his wife and tries to come really quickly…

Oh boy.  When Odenkirk came out in that milk machine costume is just about the hardest I've ever laughed at anything on TV.  (The absolute hardest I've ever laughed at something on TV was when Scott Thompson was a guest on Conan the same night that Hef was on, but that's another story.)

They absolutely were, except for the college bit.  I think David was 19 or 20 when he directed this, and he did not go to college.

Also, in the Revolutionary War scenes (as seen in the still that accompanies this roundtable), there were reenactors who refused to break character, loudly bellowing about civilians on the battlefield with infernal contraptions in their hands.

It was an incredibly fun, relaxed, friendly set.  Everyone there was volunteering their time, but everyone took it seriously.  We all knew we weren't making the next great thing.  But we were making something.  And making something is awesome.

If it makes you feel any better, my arm still hurts whenever a bad scifi movie comes on the TV.