God, the summer of '97, with both The Lost World and Batman and Robin, was just the biggest disappointment.

I'm a huge fan and it ends really well, which you wouldn't think it would. It stagnates a bit in the final two seasons, but it's always good.

Skip The End of Violence. It's terrible. Wenders is usually only good for docs in his later days.

Really, this isn't the same person as the 15 pancakes question? Doesn't seem possible!

Nah, I can't give him a free pass for it. The Crank movies are pretty much the only worthwhile thing he's ever done.

So I'm not the only one for whom Mad Max ruined all other movies then?

I caught up with Alvvays a month or two ago. I somehow missed out on them before that, but I really love their sound.

SpaceCamp is remembered almost solely for being that movie that had to be delayed after the Challenger blew up (wasn't it slated for release that weekend?), and maybe now as a role for young Leaf Phoenix. It's exactly as you describe it otherwise.

There are definitely some moments that fall flat, and that's the biggest one. There's also the montage where they pretty much wrap up the whole corrupt governor subplot that doesn't make much sense. Watching the cut scenes on the DVD, you realize that they had a whole plotline about it that didn't involve the Honkey…

I watched pretty much every Hertzfeldt film this weekend besides It's Such a Beautiful Day, which I saw for the first time a few months back. I thought most of his early work was rather shallow compared to Day, but it's a lot of fun. His last few films (with the exception of Wisdom Teeth, which feels a lot like his…

There used to be a guy here who would show up whenever the case was mentioned arguing that the teens did it. I don't know how anyone could come to that conclusion.

I watched pretty much everything Don Hertzfeldt ever made that I had not yet seen yesterday, including his new one, World of Tomorrow. His early stuff is mostly one-joke type of animated shorts, but they're plenty of fun (Billy's Balloon in particular is just hysterical). He starts hitting his peak with The Meaning of…

I have, and it's very good. I like it a lot better than The Call of Cthulhu, actually, because that one is way too literal in its adaptation.

Dan O'Bannon actually directed what I consider the best Lovecraft adaptation, The Resurrected, based on The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

I don't know how far the "shared universe" idea goes back, but William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County novels were definitely that concept.

I actually liked their first single, "Walking on the Sun," but hated everything else they did. And I was around at the time.

You know, I'm not really surprised but I find that I don't miss Shirley at all. I guess she was always one of my least favorite of the original seven. Donald Glover's absence was the most sharply felt.

They would certainly be a lot funnier if they were.

If that's the funniest gag…

The box bursting is definitely one of my all-time favorite moments.