Why people saying this movie is overrated? It's highly rated and deserves it. Heart of the movie was The Joker character, and he lived up to the hype because he was awesome in all regards – performance, writing, and art design. Good movie.

Tommy Wiseau is far weirder than Ed Wood ever was. Wood was a disorganized thinker, not very bright, and possessed of a juvenile innocence. But he was a human being. Tommy, I'm not so sure about.

I can read. "Disbanded" does not mean the same thing as "all the members had to get day jobs because the music industry deemed them toxic due to their hair-metal past." That happened to a lot of people. If they stayed in music at all, they were reduced to being jobbers, living from one paycheck to the next.

I've watched that movie dozens of times and to me it's pure escapist entertainment, despite being a documentary. Catch a good buzz and then try to put yourself in the heads of the characters and live their dreams. It works for me, though it usually seems pretty stupid when waking up with a hangover the next day.

Another life ruined by Kurt Cobain. I view the destruction of hair
metal as analogous to the Holocaust, with Cobain as the Adolf Hitler of
the 90's.

It's not the lyrics that bug me so much as the flimsy underwritten music.   There's just not a whole lot of meat there.  I do like Sleigh Bells' weird production sensibilities.  The "blown speaker" sound is interesting, but it doesn't excuse weak songs.   Maybe these guys should try producing other people's music –…

Sleigh Bells still can't write their way out of a wet paper bag.  You could grab random people off the street who have more songwriting talent than these assholes.

Link doesn't work, but I tried "lightning bolt pearl jam" at YouTube and the songs that came up were the predictable tedious oatmeal I've expected from Pearl Jam for the past two decades.   I'll be dumbstruck if this new album isn't a boring pile of shit.  Pearl Jam is not good, and never has been.

Juliet Landau would have been a great Mouth of Sauron in Return of The King with that huge toothy mouth of hers and it would have been a cool twist to have The Mouth be a hot female.   Not too late to make a Super Deluxe Director's Platinum Select version with Juliet as THE MOUTH.

Caring about family members is uncool.  Working with them is even worse.  You might as well be in the Partridge Family if you do that.

Lancelot Link and the Evolution Revolution:

If ultimate 70's-ness is your criterion, then you want that Partridge Family episode(S03E08 "A Likely Candidate") in which the band plays a benefit concert for a political candidate played by Bert Convy.   The band actually plays on stage with a giant portrait of Bert Convy hanging overhead.  It's the most 70's…

I loved Red October and Red Storm Rising as a kid, but now that type of fetishization of all things military just makes my skin crawl.   It's an American disease, and it's no longer just an affliction of conservative Republicans anymore.   Democrats are every bit as bad now.

Duran Duran is an even better example.  When they were hot nobody cool would admit to liking them.  They were pure pop trash.  You never heard an R.E.M. fan or Clash fan publicly admit to liking Duran Duran.  Then, 10 years after Duran's heyday, it started to become acceptable for the hip crowd to acknowledge DD as a…

I understood some of it.   "Generic kinda chart-pop with an indie blog backup plan" is a nice summation of Robyn and similar shit.  That made perfect sense to me.   But the NPR reference was baffling to me.

My theory is that it's this post-modern "must get there first" mania that drives a lot of pop hype.  Hall & Oates is a good example of how things have changed.  They were slagged as trashy pop in their day, then 15 years later you started hearing hip people admitting they liked some H&O songs.   It wouldn't take 15…

I was a Sopranos fanatic during the series run and I'm currently rewatching the first 3 seasons for the first time since the series finale.   Great show, but it's old hat for me.   I want something equally good that I haven't seen.    Of the hyped cable TV shows of the past decade, Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, and Game…

I've never seen one minute of Breaking Bad.  Is it really as good as it's hyped to be?   I can never think of anything I want for Christmas and I'm considering asking for this show on DVD.

"Through the Never" strikes me as a dumber and less cool paraphrasing of Sabbath's "Into the Void" off Master of Reality.

In a perfect world the whole band would have died in a plane crash in 1989.   Within the next 10 years even they will admit that, assuming they don't already.  Their parents probably already do.