Your probably right about Keaton but you'd be surprised at how often I mention him and get blank stares. Those "young-uns." Worse are the film buffs who nod and say "oh, he's fantastic" then admit they never saw any of his films.

Brian Auger's Oblivion Express
And while I'm at it, some other personal cult favorites:
-Swing Out Sister
-Jon Hassell
-The Brothers Quay animations
-Prefab Sprout
-The Clientele
-Jazzanova
-Stars of the Lid
-David Sylvian
-Buster Keaton
-Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen
-La Jetee

He has a much bigger cult following than you think. Especially among musicians.

Yes, great band. The lead female singer, however, has a lot of trouble singing in key during live performances.

It was all talk because they were ALWAYS IN PYJAMAS!
A space crew can never deal with emergencies on time if they don't change out of their pyjamas. Didn't they read the manual?

Peter Finch in Network is by far the best of the bunch.
And Network was eerily prophetic.

For a second, I thought this was an article about Ned Flanders
Then it turned out to be about diddly doodly raparinos.

I had the exact same 8-track player with the plunger/handle, except mine was blue. Wore out my 8-track of Pink Floyd's Ummagumma. Years later had to get used to the songs not being split up half-way to switch to the next track. What a shitty technology that was.
Also owned a laserdisc player. That blew people away…

I showed 20-year-olds some vacuum tubes - they thought they were lightbulbs.
And they couldn't understand when I explained it to them in morse code.

True, it's not a big deal in the long run. I like to rant sometimes, and bad family movies are my pet peeve. My kids grew up loving movies, so we went to a lot of so-called family films. After seeing one flop after another it wore down my tolerance, and after working on several features, I marvel at the collective…

Arsenio - sad, but true. Hollywood is a bank, as they say.

Worse than that was the ultra-creepy Jack Frost, where a dead dad ends up as a fucking snowman. How can people work for a year-and-a-half on something like that without someone screaming "wait a sec…ARE WE OUT OF OUR FUCKING MINDS??" Especially if anyone on the crew has kids.

I took my kids to that piece of shit too. I was shocked by the ending - that squirm-inducing "Let's have a happy ending" at the expense of all reasonable logic or moral decency. I know Hollywood loves dead parents, but bringing one back like that made me think of all the kids who lost a mother and what that would mean…

The worst argument for straight-to-landfill crap like this is "kids will watch anything." Yeah, they will, but the good films stick with them, whereas Yogi Bear and shit are completely forgotten about the next day. My kids will never forget Toy Story or The Iron Giant, and treasure them. Ask them about Inspector…

I can't wait for the day when all the executives who thought 3D was a great idea are mocked by the teeming masses. I look forward to seeing them shuffling shamefully in grey worker's coveralls, heads bowed as they accept their cardboard-colored cafeteria swill, silently chewing tasteless, rubbery bread. They'll stare…

That means we also have to sit through at least 8 to 10 shitty, unskippable trailers in 3D with that announcer saying "Coming soon…" in that voice I've heard since the 1960's. Thank god for Criterion, which has the classiness to NOT release anything in 3D, and goes straight to the menu without even an FBI warning.

The Syd Mead designs were cool, but the characters are wearing what has to be the dorkiest modification of a cheap bicycle helmet I've ever seen. Someone must have thought the glowing lines would dampen the dorkiness of that headgear, but no.
Also I remember Wendy Carlos' soundtrack sounding very dated - more like…

I was hoping it would be the deleted scene where Dave Bowman attacks his older self, grabbing him by the collar of his very expensive bathrobe and yells "What the hell is going on here, fella!" but because he's still wearing his space helmet, it just comes out as "whuduhhuwaduhwuhoohwhwhuffa?" Then they get into a…

Every year Top Ten film lists have movies yet to be released, like True Grit. Not fair!
Can't you guys wait a few days till the Oscar-bait films come out?

The Age of Regression
Let's see now.. at least two "Oz" films, three confirmed "Snow White" films, two as-yet untitled Brother's Grimm stories, then the board games "Battleships" and "Monopoly" "Clue,"and there's also "Rubik's Cube." Another "GI Joe," "Tranformers," "Cars," there's supposed to be a "Hot Wheels" movie,…