October sounds like a welcome break to me. Not only has this summer been hell on fucking earth here, but I've got a really awesome leather jacket in my closet that I'd like to be able to wear again.

Don't we always?

@avclub-16db446cafb1ffb1466e71eaf97a4f49:disqus If there ain't nobody watching, RUN IT!

You're not the only one who remembers this article. I remember this article and so does everyone else on this site who was commenting (or at least reading) back when it first went up. It's part of AV Club history. I don't think very many people here have forgiven her for writing this thing even now.

@Scrawler2:disqus I liked the movie quite a bit and even I have to agree with you.

The Strangers sticks out in my mind for not only being fucking terrible, but because I went to see it on a painfully awkward date.

My first thought was about how they would fit him, if at all. But I suppose that he doesn't have to be wearing them. For all we (or I) know, the kid's just been jerking off into them.

Am I mistaken or was that Crow's line?

They had a pretty amazing run between Hootenanny and Pleased to Meet Me, so there's no going wrong with any one of those four, but if I had to choose only one, I'd go with Tim.

Same here. I don't dislike them or anything, I just have never been all that taken with them. My unending, deep-seated frustration and impatience with all the faceless, creatively challenged me-too noise-pop acts that have been kicking around the Internet since 2008 or so isn't helping, either.

Was Yes Sit, I Will the one people behind the Beatle Barkers album(s) did?

I liked it when I first saw it as a kid, but I haven't been back to it since and I don't know if I want to watch it again. Anything I haven't seen in 15+ years I approach with caution (if at all), regardless of how I felt about it the first time around or how likely it is to hold up on its own terms.

@avclub-022199896b1f52952c180b60caa681bd:disqus @avclub-c156902f5b20b572848be18c11634dfb:disqus Is it too late to jump on the Split Enz/Crowded House love train? Temple of Low Men is emerging as a favorite (not to mention sharing the love for one band and not the other is just criminal).

The Spy Who Loved Me is one of the best in the series and For Your Eyes Only isn't far behind, but the Roger Moore era is spotty at best outside of those two. But to be fair, he's not the only Bond to have made a stinker during his tenure (Diamonds Are Forever, anyone?).

@avclub-1982161d0fe636d1caabd47a2ac23e12:disqus Lost in Translation is as vapid, worthless and transparently obvious as movies come and I believe that people with some degree of tastemaker status (i.e. movie reviewers) have a responsibility to their audience (and to the profession as a whole) to call out bullshit when…

You sound just like one of my history books from school.

I'll second that and raise you this: his review (and later Great Movies essay) for Lost in Translation, partly because that movie is one of the main litmus tests I use to measure the make and condition of a film critic's bullshit detector and to see Roger Ebert of all people flunk that test with falling colors is like…

@avclub-7105f7f2eff89eb19fc9014f6baa257a:disqus Beasts. I don't know what the fandom's popular consensus on it is, but it's the one that got her into my bloodstream. See also: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Wasn't Soon-Yi already an adult when the relationship began? Say what you will about Woody, but at least the guy — to my knowledge, anyway — didn't force himself on a 13-year-old.

You're not alone in that. I usually read the article first and then the comments section, but every once in a great while, usually if the article just went up and I have a good shot at a firstie, I'll skip straight to the comments.