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Wes Lawson
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Where was Steve Jobs between midnight and 2am?

I felt like a geezer getting offended by the gay subplot in the first movie, but dammit, I was offended.

Where the hell is this Pitch Perfect cult coming from? I mean, it was a fine enough movie and everyone sang well, but what the hell? 

I guess we needed a somewhat insufferable crotchety aging star to achieve balance with the Entertertainingly Crotchety Aging Stars that are Harrison Ford and Morgan Freeman.

And Fear Street too! That dude was cranking out six books a month there in the early-mid 90s!

Oh my God, I haven't thought about The Boxcar Children in years.

Next time you're in the car with someone who texts while driving, say "I hope you can afford my medical bills if we crash." Extremely effective, based solely on the two times I've said it to people. 

I sure did! I was TGP over at Rotten Tomatoes for years.

As an artsy/theater/band geek type who graduated high school in the mid-2000's, none of the events of the movie spoke to my specific experience, but man, the general feelings and emotions and character interactions sure did. And the gay kid (fucking me) having the secret relationship with the football player

Me too, kind of! It left me feeling warm and nostalgic more than sad, but for some reason, that scene where they're dancing to "Don't Dream It's Over," in which nothing particularly emotional happens, I just lost it.

And thank God they did, because Affleck's gradually heightening vocal pitch as he struggles to get through the sketch is funnier than the material itself.

This is true too. Some of the worst movies I've ever seen were indie movies dumped on unsuspecting Blockbuster shelves and Redbox locations, where I scrolled past, saw some likable stars and a plot that sounded decent and thought, "Sure, why not?"

My earliest memory of seeing a non-kid movie in theaters is Mrs. Doubtfire, and I would have been 5. That's about when I'd feel comfortable taking a kid. I think anything below that would be too loud and too fidgety.

I thought the first was pretty abysmal, but the cast is so good that I wouldn't mind seeing if they got it closer to right the second time.

As a gay man, the fact that this looks like yet another generic teen-lit adaptation is far more of a deterrent than Card's homophobia. Plus, separating artists from art and whatnot. 

God, I've seen jack shit from this year beyond a few of the summer titles and Die Hard 5. I guess Iron Man 3 wins by default?

Jurassic Park 3D was a surprisingly good time. I only went to see it since I'd never seen it on the big screen in my million times viewing it, and I was lucky enough to sit behind a whole group of kids who had never seen it, and they freaked out appropriately.

Gatsby was an uneven film (it lost a great deal of steam in the back half once it focused on the Daisy/Gatsby relationship), but man, that first half was a triumph of visual excess. I wanted to live in that party.

It's a simple question - just say yes and we'll move on!

At one point in 2011, one of the 10 most popular songs in the country was a Big Sean song whose entire chorus is as follows: