Jealous! We only got to see Sting's son's band. They were extremely not the Foo Fighters.

There's a big part of me that wishes he'd taken the drumming gig that Tom Petty offered him in 1994.

Yes. I saw Paul Simon way back when ('Rhythm of the Saints' had just come out). He and the band (who were awesome) played an exuberant 'You Can Call Me Al', and in a moment of spontaneous joy, Simon said that it was so much fun that he wanted to play it again, which they did. Unfortunately, the review I'd read from…

"I'm not paid to be a role model. I'm paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court." - Charles Barkley

That did bring back some warm memories of Sports Night (and a time when I could tolerate Aaron Sorkin's style in 30-minute servings) and of Isaac in particular. He had a monologue about NASA's plan to genetically engineer space birds (related to his own recovery) that gets me misty just thinking about it.

I just assumed that most of Wayne Industries' employees commute in from the suburbs.

Mazel tov, Nathan! When I get home, I'll put on 'Garden State' and ignore it in the background.

Someone on the IMDB boards once posited the idea that TMP is a variation on '2001' where HAL went through the star-gate instead of Dave. I think that's kind of nice.

'I'll give you that the uniforms were godawful.'… that, and trying not to think about what Stephen Collins was doing in between takes.

Wrath of Khan is my #1 as well, but I do have a place in my heart for The Motion Picture despite its problems. In 1979, it would have been so easy to cash in by turning Trek into one more Star Wars ripoff (that wouldn't happen til 2009), but they resisted the temptation. And the Director's Cut from 2001 is a major…

'I know nothing.' It may be damning with faint praise, but it's Shatner's finest moment.

I love those guys! It's so obvious that they're just a bunch of meatheads who were hired for their appearance, and that they have absolutely no idea what's going on. I wonder if they even got to see the script.

Agreed; it's also worth pointing out that the CD version omits the awesome live-only slow intro to 'Crosseyed and Painless' for some absurd reason.

I'm not sure whose fault it is that that ever became an issue in the first place, but I assume it's either Dylan or the Beatles. Back in the old days, nobody ever dinged Elvis, Sinatra, or Tony Bennett for not writing their own material.

Agreed on all counts, especially as regards Michael Steele… terrific bass player, terrific singer, easy on the eyes. What's not to love?

Everyone who's ever been in a band can tell you that there are 2 stages to coming up with a name:

I agree, he's a better actor than he gets credit for. He was terrific in 'Magnolia'; on one level he's playing the Tom Cruise character, but in several scenes you see that it's just a mask worn in public by a severely damaged person (ie every character in every PT Anderson movie).

It's the weather; when I was there in mid-January, I noticed on a frigid Saturday night that all the bar-hopping 20-somethings wore parkas and caps over the little nothings they were wearing. You would NEVER see them doing that in New York.

I really liked the movie too, but I couldn't get past the Its-In-The-Script stupidity of the big red button that automatically releases ALL of the monsters with no backup or fail-safe.

Yes to 'Touching the Void,' a truly terrific movie and, in its own way, one of the most effective horror movies I've ever seen.