I thought the villain's evil was motivated by a desire for money and power like virtually every other villain in every other movie ever made. What's the problem with that?

There was a story that the original scene of the two-legged robot accidentally killing the OCP exec was much longer but the studio made Veerhoven cut it down which had the effect of turning what was apparently over-the-top funny into something horrifying.

@PeterViewedTooMuch:disqus  The original Clash of The Titans had Olivier and Maggie Smith in it!

Michael Caine already won that contest.

Murphy… it's you?

It was Julian Cope of Teardrop Explodes who made Walker cool again, or tried to anyway when he put together the compilation album 'Fire Escape In The Sky: The Godlike Genius of Scott Walker' in 1981

Loneliness… is a cloak you wear

I'm English which means when I say "pop" I mean "popular" which means everything that isn't classical or jazz.

I think we've been able to admit it for a while. At least I have. I think the Gibbs are among the greatest pop songwriters ever.

On a T train in Boston a few years ago I heard these two young 20-something couples talking about movies. One of the girls mentioned Casablanca which they'd just seen for the first time and said "I don't get it. It's supposed to be this classic romance but they break up at the end. What's romantic about that?"

I loved his Daredevil though.

@avclub-3aa3dbf221c29bcf88967e0ed0d00817:disqus Everyone became better-looking too.

Don't forget Jim Starlin's Warlock and Englehart's Doctor Strange.

Well, it started with Madonna, didn't it? But I bet even she'd be shocked by the mainstreaming of porn imagery.

I hate to pull the "father of a young girl" card but I am one, and she's just starting to get into her own pop music (I hate you One Direction!) so I could really do without this stripper/hooker/porn star bullshit being presented to kids.

Ashes To Ashes and Under Pressure both got to #1 in the UK but were his biggest hits in quite some time (even 'Heroes' only got to #24) and RCA were happy to let him go believing that, after the Berlin albums, he was mostly done for commercially.

On top of Daniel Stern's music obsession there's also the kid who goes around quoting lines from 'Sweet Smell of Success'

My mother used to store her 45s without sleeves, stacked up like plates in a sideboard, so maybe that was just what people did back then. She also "cleaned" every record before putting it on by wiping it on her pants so maybe she just didn't give a shit. Just like Ellen Barkin.

Ditto. I don't care about him "selling out" with a middling rock-pop album because he had produced so much brilliance for a decade before it. He gets a pass.

I loved the Laughing Gnome when I was a kid (it was re-issued in the UK to cash in on Bowie's Ziggy fame) and it still makes me laugh.