Can see where this is going…

Ornette Coleman!

That pilot?  Dawes.

I think Supergirl was the first time I thought "man, those are effects are shitty" about a (then) recent-ish movie.  The Salkinds could be just as tacky as Golan-Globus.  Remember that magic wand thing that Peter O'Toole had?  Could have bought that in the clearance bin.

Whooah daddy!

Awesome.

Sort of blows my mind that Do the Right Thing was one of the "big summer movies" that year.

Now this is an interesting alternate universe.

That shit was the JAM when I was a seven year-old suburban white kid.

Yeah, this.  I was a fairly undiscriminating 15 year-old when it came out (big fan of the first movie, of course), no cynicism, not old enough to be turned off by the hype…just wanting to have a good time at the movies.  For the first time, I remember thinking "damn, Spielberg's heart really isn't in this."  There are…

For the first five or so years of the show the iconic Kong '76 poster hangs in Jerry's appartment.

Always on the cutting edge.

"That's a nice shirt Karen"

All "don't sexually harass people" videos that are shown at work are funnier than most comedies.

Sam Elliot in Frogs is another one, although, being Sam Elliot, he was pretty tolerable.

"Yeah the source is called british history, you goddamn idiot. This is exactly the type of thread we all feared from the new av club comment system. Laughless mirthless comedy. I bid you farewell forever."
The ghost of sean O neal - Aug. 24th 2011.

Anyone with even a passing interest in the subject must pick up Ray Morton's book King Kong:  The History of a Movie Icon.  Morton devles into the production and reception of every pre-Peter Jackson Kong-related film (including the Japanese versions!) with the detail of a comprehensive production diarist.  Just a…

"Sex in a bathtub?  How can I use that?"

Holy shit, was Kenny G more self-aware than he's been given credit for?

THANK YOU BABY BOOMER SANTA!