Emmerich reached peak Emmerich with "White House Down," a movie so ridiculously preposterous that it had the president fire a missile launcher on the White House lawn and stabbing James Woods in the neck with a pen. Now THAT's a lot of fun. This is just joyless, completely lacking in charisma, overstuffed and proves…

He gets relegated to subplot #45 of 50 in the movie, where he's, no joke, forced to drive a bunch of kids (including Channing Tatum's daughter from "White House Down") to Area 51 for no goddamn reason.

Will Smith's son does make some sort of reference to Will Smith's line of "Now that's what I call a close encounter."

It also came out at a time when the blockbuster had a, ugh, resurgence over the summer with "Twister," "The Rock," this and "Mission: Impossible." They were all big and dumb, but at least there was a sense of earnestness to them.

JJ Abrams's Bad Robot has had the ability to do this for years. I think the outrage is kinda dumb.

Yea, there's part of me that wonders if they could have kept the momentum going if Brandon Flowers didn't slip and fall up his own ass (And I really enjoy most of "Sam's Town."). While they remain successful, they certainly hurt themselves in the long run trying to be all "Born to Run."

I agree. Those other songs are solid, but really hurt by "Andy."

And his jellyfish!

I saw them play with Hot Hot Heat when both were becoming big bands and it was great.

*Record scratch* B - BT

I will say I distinctly remember being at a Green Day concert in 2005 where My Chemical Romance was opening and seeing all the kids with the jagged, swooping haircuts and such, I realized that that would be this generation's hair metal. And it definitely was.

Get off my damn planet.

That's such a perfect mid-2000s lineup.

You're definitely right. I think it was one of those situations where it didn't do well the first time around, so they re-released to piggyback off of "Brightside."

It's to this album as "Mother" is to The Police's "Synchronicity" - a universally-skipped track.

"Hot Fuss" has a such a killer run of hits before it kind of falls off of a cliff with "Andy, You're A Star." It was such a turning point for alt-rock music in general. All of the hits off of that still get played on the reg on the radio.

I heard it referred to as dance rock.

I was really surprised to not see "Silent Alarm" on here. It's streets ahead of most of the stuff on here.

There's none in the Kansas City area either.

Eh, it's all good. I don't follow this Twitter and probably wouldn't follow Paul Dano, but this cute for what it is.