A minor point, but are there any rock vocalists, since, like Axl, who add any personality to their recordings? DLR did it, Mick did it, Plant did it, Freddie did it, Stevie Wonder and MJ did it - I mean the vocal tics and whoops and such that we all sing along with it.

Yeah, it's kind of depressing that he was as good as he was ever gonna get when he was 21, (as admittedly revolutionary and awesome as that was).

Do kids these days really still attempt to play Eruption in guitar stores? I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
(And when I say cry, I mean tears of hope for the future. Sort of.)

Funny that back in the day, around the time of their split, Eddie was the one with the genial genius reputation, and everyone naturally assumed Roth was the troublemaker. Which he may have been, but their reputations seem reversed now.

Ratt is hit or miss to me, but DeMartini is a monster - even Frank Zappa singled him out. His solo on "Body Talk" is just smoking.

When I was a kid, my dad took me and some friends to our local giant drive-in theater to see a triple feature of Godzilla on Monster Island (as Godzilla vs. Gigan was known), Godzilla vs. Megalon, and Godzilla vs. the Bionic Monster (as this one was called stateside, until they were sued).
It was glorious.
I hope Dad…

This movie has a special place in my heart. I consider the original '54 and Mothra vs. Godzilla the best of the Showa series, but this is the one that always seemed to play on WTOG Creature Feature on Saturday afternoons, and stuck with me.

T2 was as much as a letdown to me as Lost World seems to be to others. Groundbreaking special effects, sure, but just one long tiresome chase and a rehash of the original with nothing new to add. I hadn't been that bored in an action film since I fell asleep in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

There is no third act to the movie if Sarah Harding, the one hectoring everyone else about a sterile environment and the olfactory powers of T-rexes, doesn't march across the island with wet baby T-rex blood on her backpack.

I agree. It's brooding and ominous and really helps sell the film (reminds me a little of the original King Kong score that way).
Then again, I always thought the original Jurassic Park theme was a little too on-the-nose and glib.

C'mon, 360 posts in and no mention of "McDonnough and Snoats"? Tsk, tsk…

Also to avoid drinking with:
Tommy DeVito
Harold Shand
Frank Alexander

I can tie a sheepshank, even loaded.

In Vienna, there hasn't been enough bourbon to go around. So a nice little trade started. Stealing it from the military hospitals, diluting it to go further, and selling it back to patients. Do you see what that means?

Quint!

He is described that way, but one thing I miss on this show is Will's gift for forensics and deductive reasoning. Meaning, they put more weight on the "visions" or psychic aspect. (Acknowledging that one aspect is not divorced from the other).
For me the best part of the Red Dragon book is that it is a detective…

Gary Larson's Far Side caption underneath an angry couple confronting their witch babysitter: "You cooked and ate them BOTH?"

They used to run these episodes on CBS late night in the early 80's, when my 9 year old self would stay up and watch them alone in my grandmother's darkened living room in rural Iowa. And they completely freaked me out.
The Spanish Moss Murders, with the Cajun boogeyman Pere Mah Fait, was the one that stuck with me…

Sorrell "Boss Hogg" Booke was a Columbia and Yale graduate, spoke 5 languages, and was a Korean War era intelligence officer.

I think the special effects in the first Iron Man movie, whether they're practical or CGI, are among the best and most seamless I have seen.
I could be completely wrong, but I suspect that stunts or FX that are not CGI may "look like CGI" because even footage that is still shot on film these days can be fed into a…