The Walking Dead bares the brunt of this criticism as well, exacerbated by that surprisingly violent commercial that aired during the Super Bowl (complete with a violent death).

Bubble Boy is fucking awesome.

The Rock is okay I guess but National Treasure is really stupid. And he's mostly just coasting in it.

Raising Arizona
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Wild at Heart
Adaptation
Matchstick Men
Peggy Sue Got Married
Rumble Fish
Valley Girl
Moonstruck
Honeymoon in Vegas
Leaving Las Vegas
Kick-Ass
And, yes, Con Air, which is a great satire of action movies and ventures often into absurdism.

Damn, how bout Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf? Millionaire -> No One Knows

It was a running thing too — Battle of Los Angeles goes "Guerilla Radio" / "Testify" which is another fucking amazing pick

I realize that 3 of these are debuts and those first 2 tracks are mission statements. This is not coincidence.

Others: The Kinks - Lola vs Powerman…; The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America; NOFX - Punk in Drublic; Screeching Weasel - Anthem for a New Tomorrow; Metallica - EVERY ALBUM FROM THE 80S HOLY SHIT; Arcade Fire - Funeral, on and on

A few:

Michael Moore is highly skilled as an entertainer and a propagandist, both ideologically and technically. And his films are damn funny.

FOR THE LAST TIME the line is "My eyes! The goggles do nothing!"

@avclub-1b1f9a3e639ecc53f335314fc9d8403b:disqus As someone who is generally creeped out by Jewish ritualism (see http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6… ), one can certainly be anti-Judaism. But there's a huge cultural distinction between the Jewish religion and Jewish people, especially in America.

It's also, ye gods, completely multinational and extends all the way through the ranks of the insitutional church to the Vatican. If you want to make a documentary about school abuse be my guest, but it's sure as shit not a cogent critique of Glibney or this film that he isn't covering all the bases of child abuse. It…

Morris.

Here was the situation: Archer got raped

Gay panic + rape joke = nope

Nostalgia, ULTRA is a great record.

Wow, so Murray's thesis here is that "Frank Ocean might be a little overrated" so to justify it he spends the entire article A) covering his own ass ("It could be that I’m dead wrong") and B) writing about tons of things that aren't Frank Ocean (The Sessions, The Clash), thereby not justifying his original thesis at…

the MIB tv show was excellent. all kinds of great voices: Billy West, David Warner, Alec Baldwin, Charles Napier, etc. And it actually influenced the films, cuz that horrible Johnny Knoxville character in Men in Black 2 was taken from an idea in the show.

it's not better than the movie(s), but it's still really great