The only thing I remember from watching this movie
was that my friend and I were the only people in the theater. It was a small town, single screen house and a matinee, and they still showed it. We were in middle school at the time, and amused ourselves by sitting in all 300-some seats in the room and talking loudly. …

I have yet to outgrow a love of movies that fully commit to their silliness, and usually think of Dude, Where's My Car? as a prime example. I'm not sure it fits as a formula movie per say though, given that one of the central jokes is the increasingly bizarre and far-fetched plot that fills the vacuum left by the…

What sort of nightmare is contemporary culture
where there's not only a live-action Marmaduke movie released, but it doesn't even number among the year's ten worst?

I love the hell out of this series, but found all the Live hate off-putting in this installment, and I'm not sure Steve ever does get around to exploring what it is about Live he found appealing (which I would be happy to read about, if he figures it out). Hilarious entry, nonetheless.

With the volleyball tweets, Grassley was obviously reminding his constituency that he's still paying attention to a few of the goings-on in his home state. And, perhaps, to some degree he's interested in volleyball. Neither is a bad thing, politically, morally, etc, etc.

That performance gave me a smile I'll hopefully carry the rest of the day. Great stuff!

New interpretation: the game is a critique of Ayn Rand and a mediation on the concept of 'choice' in video games, all wrapped in a stylized abstraction of a philosophy student's really bad hangover.

Bond parties are shit, unless you're Bond. For the typical attendee, it probably goes something like this: you've traveled halfway around the world because you're obligated due to your business ties to an essentric, slightly-effeminate wealthy industrialist with an implacable accent. Sure, the volcano lair looks cool…

And, of course, all that swimming in the movie is more writhing together on the ground. After all their individual daliencies, they join together in a giant ball of omnisexuality. Makes sense to me for the movie's culmination, perversion-wise and plot-wise.

I just realized I've never given that much thought to the lack of plot in the Floorshow. Most of the songs in Rocky Horror have something of a purpose plot or character development-wise - I suppose you could view the end as when it finally becomes one of those "let's grind things to a halt for a SONG, people!"…

To the MPAA, hippies are sub-human (see above). Anything they do / have done to them isn't objectionable.

Though I'd disagree about the film not being well-shot, Lone Audience nails the point of it all. It's not "subversive" by 1970s or 2000s standards, but rather a riff on the 1950s, including its popular entertainment (B movies) and publicly-professed sexual mores.

The Omega Man
Frontal nudity! Shotgun blasts to the chest! People on fire!

Am I the only person who thinks the film is legitimately good on its own merit?
I can understand hating the cult, but (heaven help me) I actually think The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a good movie.

Though I wouldn't go so far as to call the third movie 'great'', I do think there's something impressive in its ambition. Most crappy blockbusters are content with mediocrity. Pirates 3 is one of the strangest ostensibly 'commercial' movies I've seen released by a major studio in a long time.

It's been a while since I watched All in the Family, but anyone here seen Norman Lear's movie Cold Turkey? As a satire, it gets things pitch-perfect. In it, the cigarette industry offers to donate a massive sum of money to any city where anyone can go a month without smoking, and a small Iowa town takes up the…

The Olympic mascot is always awesomely confounding! Curiously generic, vaguely relevant to the host city/country, mostly inoffensive yet forgettably unappealing - and during the buildup to the games, the Olympic news coverage has to pretend like they somehow aren't as confused / indifferent toward the things as the…

Shadyac's ephiphany and the message of Bruce Almighty
As we all recall, Bruce Almighty incorporated into its story a thin allegory for Jim Carrey's career: 'entertaining' caster of light news attempts to make serious news, fails, and is more or less told by God that there is value in insubstantial, enjoyable fluff he…

I find it difficult to talk about bad movies without somehow incorporating into the discussion the fact that they are bad.

I was hoping for Commentary Tracks of the Damned. According to Amazon, the 4-disc edition (?…!):