Agreed.  It was made even worse not just by the circumstances themselves, but by the way the events were covered in the press.

I had the same "meh" reaction to the opening sequence while watching it.  After the movie was over, I realized that it *did* stand out in the sense that it was a genuine cinematic idea that wasn't taken directly from the source material and actually worked in the context of the film.  Offhand I can't think of anything…

It's a tad silly to say Lynch is "overrated" given that a lot of his work bombed with critics and general audiences (awards at Cannes don't count).  He is definitely overused as a cultural reference point, particularly by people who haven't actually watched (m)any of his movies, but this isn't the same thing.

I don't think it's ever made clear what it is.  In interviews/essays I've seen/read, it seems Hopper was thinking along the lines of nitrous oxide (which you certainly could administer in portable mask form) or whatever it is that's in poppers (which I have never seen outside of, well, popper form, but who knows).  I…

Buster Keaton is a good example.  Maybe the only example who had his own films. He had them because he was awesome.

Kinda disappointed the 1961 movie "Something Wild" (with Ralph Meeker) wasn't on this list.  I guess what happens in the movie isn't quite a kidnapping, but he does hold a woman captive.

Herman Cain

I wanted Frank Stallone.

Werner Herzog reading verbatim from a script by Bruce Vilanch might actually be better than that.  Provided he is actually holding the script and not reading it off a teleprompter.

Gosh.  Was George Jessel not available?

The mopey one.

I agree with Warren Oates's ranking.

Spot on, on all of that.

How about, directors we hate in movies we love?  Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" is my pick.  I understand why people like Boogie Nights, Magnolia, etc, but personally I don't like them, and all for more or less the same reason, so it's PTA's fault.

If you don't think Eternal Sunshine is a profound and magical cinematic experience then you are dead inside. You should just go kill yourself. That's what you should do.  I'm sorry it wasn't BABY GENIUSES or some shit.  Jerk.  Fucking die.  That movie taught America to love again.

Yes.  Tenenbaums had more full-on jokes, especially from the Gene Hackman character.  Almost everything out of his mouth was funny and on purpose.  I think this allowed it to cross over with a lot of people who otherwise would have been bored with Anderson's style.    A lot of the humor in Aquatic and Darjeeling is…

I don't know about the son, but the guy himself… what was he thinking?  If that was me I'd be like "uh, can you make the movie, like, Patch Smith, or something?"

It is not better than Ice-T and you know it.

They're called Strong Female Characters you pig.  Do you hate women?

A new element I'd like to see in this story is a wisecracking, time-traveling Dane Cook (or equivalent) as a fourth musketeer.