I loves me some Tom Petty… but profound? Can you cite some examples? Cuz generally he's a pretty lazy, first-rhyme-that-comes-to-mind kinda lyricist, it seems to me. (This isn't a problem, I'm just not sure where you're coming from with your comment.)

As proof of McQueen's real acting chops, I often cite The Towering Inferno. It's a bad movie and most of the acting in it is phoned in, half-baked, or overdone, but McQueen is perfect.

Yeah, but then you'd have to watch Mad World to see them. Why would anyone want to do that?

Howard Platt! I don't know him from Sanford And Son but when I rewatched Prime Cut recently, I was sure I knew that guy from somewhere and after racking my brain for most of the run-time it finally dawned on me: he was Dr. Phil Newman on The Bob Newhart Show! (He showed up on Barney Miller a bunch of times too.)

I recall my grandfather complaining about "modern" car chases in movies back when I was still a teenager in the '80s. "All they do is smash into things. That's not good driving; it's terrible driving. What the hell is exciting about that?"

Is this episode any funnier if you have some idea of who Richard Grieco is? Cuz I don't and I barely chuckled.

I still think Fey's Palin is spot-on and generally funny but that skit was sucked of any momentum by constantly cutting to Trump, who I don't think said a single funny line in the whole thing. I honestly found it baffling how poorly constructed the thing was.

Indeed we can!
And I took the liberty of drinking a toast to that for both of us.

I might if I agreed with you. But I think Guardians was a fun movie and Labyrinth was a boring, unsuccessful one, so we're unlikely to find any common ground here.

Yeah, why would anyone in Hollywood think letting someone involved in a smash hit take a crack at re-imagining a movie that flopped 30 years ago was a good idea? They must be crazy, I tells ya!

Santa Claus? Does murder even fit down a chimney?

D'oh!
Of course you are correct.
This is why no one should let me near a comments section until after my second cup of coffee.

Well, in this case, the first adaptation WAS better, assuming you're referring to the excellent and hilarious radio version. But yeah, while the movie isn't a complete triumph, I'll never understand all the flak it gets. It's quite entertaining, is extremely well cast, achieves the right tone for the material, and…

I don't know if I agree with that assessment. At best, it lightly choogles.
Let me be clear here: I'm not saying the Kingston Trio aren't without their charms — they were talented fellows who were good at what they did. But they did not rock and they are not even remotely the same genre of music as the Everlys.

Lumping The Everly Brothers — who were real rock and roll pioneers who made music for and often about teenagers — with college folk music does them a serious disservice. The Kingston Trio could not have rocked if their lives were on the line; the Everlys did it rather effortlessly. (And continued to do so throughout…

Honestly, Lemmy never gets the props he should for his lyrics.
I mean, "Fourth day, five day marathon/We're moving like a parallelogram!"
That is some brilliant shit right there.

I dunno, "Doctor Rock" might be a better pick. Not only because it's actually about rock and roll but also because it contains the line, "You've got a body like a Marshall stack."
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I'm kinda thinking the Chinese will just use one of his moles to grow a new Lemmy.

Well alright then. Gotta admit, I really was confused (there may have been substances involved) because while I've never been a fan of White Christmas (the movie) it has been at least a decade since I saw it and yep, I had completely forgotten the minstrel number in that one too.
My humblest apologies to you, good sir!

This is what I'm sayin'… 1984 is a fantastic album. It's not like they completely changed their sound or changed their lineup or anything. They just finally got the Big Hit Single they'd always been groping for.