Agreed. I'd take American Beauty all day. As Good as It Gets is so shitty.

They are kinda mealy. Not my favorite. Thanks for asking.

I appreciate the love for "Breakdown." I saw it in a movie theater in 1997 and it was, hands down, the most exhilarating movie of the year. An absolutely blast from start to finish, and Kurt Russell just kills it.

All of their ad budget went to the big vision board in the producer's office. Turns out just envisioning an ad campaign does not make it be.

I disliked Mr. Mercedes so much - for the points you lay out VERY well here - that I didn't bother with the subsequent Bill Hodges books.

Do actual people get the "Audience" network?

That goddam Natalie Imbruglia album is so underrated. The lyrics to "Torn" are so f'ing stinging. "You're a little late … I'm already torn."

1997 also saw the release a few seminal alt country albums: Whiskeytown's "Stranger's Almanac," Old 97s "Too Far To Care," and Steve Earle's "El Corazon." If you like that kind of thing (I like that kind of thing).

I agree with this but would add one observation - the "ageless" look of the originals is, I think, attributable to the "grimy" and lived-in look overall. I always assumed this was the point - that this was some other, real world that was struggling through a dictatorship and all the consequences of that kind of…

Hahaha I love this! Laurence, you and I must be of similar age. I was damn confused and also thought Vader - and definitely the storm troopers - were robots. There was no internet to fill in the gaps!

Absolutely right, Beasterly. Anyone that would refer to Star Wars as "70s kitsch" must have been born well after 1995. These movies were a cultural phenomenon that never really waned. I was born in 1973 and was 10 years old when ROTJ came out. It was literally EVERYTHING and EVERYWHERE. Kitsch?! Also, 70s?!

No "Liquid Swords"?

IMO, one of the most weirdly remarkable runs has to be Home Alone (and maybe because I was a projectionist at a movie theater during its run). It ranks in the top 5 all time in non-consecutive weeks at number 1, which is amazing, but I think what is particularly incredible about its run is that it is a straight-up…

^ This guy gets it.

Dikachu I'm right there with you! I actually put the damn Blu-Ray right into my car CD player and rock the F out.

I think he mostly sounds like a fapping idiot.

Wait, hold the phone for a minute. This is an actual quote from this trash clickbait shit article: (referring to The Wall) "I like the idea, because it’s hard; back then, 'the Wall' was symbolic of the Soviet Union."

- The AV Club

My stupid digital antenna picks up ABC and exactly nothing else. Boo trees.

Yeah this is confusing and also wrong. The quote above is from the Trump/Turnbull call.