criteria?
What was the criteria for this list? If it's as broad as the main character believes something improbable/impossible is happening, they seem crazy to other characters, but they are right in the end, that could fit lots of movies.

It's been a while since I've seen "12 Monkeys"; I heard that last line as "I'm IN insurance". The people who control the time travel in the future are assumed to be scientists and experts and have an attitude of great power and authority. But as we meet them in the past, the are just average people with ordinary…

cn
All Chuck Norris references will henceforth be replaced with Ricky Jay.

too late and too soon
I'm guess that the lame BSG ending prevented a top 5 showing. Or at least a top 10. If this list was made a year or two, I would expect complaints that BSG ranked below "Deadwood" and "The Shield". I haven't seen one yet.

"Castle" debuted this season to mediocre ratings but has held steady, getting an order for a full season of 22 episodes.

Aria
Ken Russell's segment of "Aria" was good. Maybe the last decent thing he directed.

If Peter has to touch skin to get a power, and he has to concentrate to not take a power, then why didn't he get Samuel's power? Didn't they shake hands before Peter knew he had a power?

confused
I can't even remember why or how they have powers. Genetics, evolution, a formula, solar eclipse, being touched by a magic baby. And didn't Peter start the season with more than one power? Wasn't he using a few powers to become a super-paramedic? Now he's back to one power at a time. And he gets his…

Yeah, I would think the "dick" titles would be ok. Might raise a few eyebrows, but the word still ends up in titles once in a while. The word itself has become less shocking and has kind of a PG vibe, with a few utterances on tv now and then.

a murder of logic
Nice that the Audunbon Society can track the bird population of the world practically in real time. And that a drastic drop in the crow population that leaves what should be millions, maybe billions of dead birds littering practically everywhere is only notice by an ex-Nazi guard in a prison in…

needs more dog
Sure, the dog=movie formula fails if you want to see a movie that's, you know, good. But it doesn't fail for the people who make lots of money banking on that formula. As sad as this is to type, the USA gross for "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" was something close to $100 million, and "Marley and Me" was…

@ Mbs

there were good jokes in the promos?
"You took everything?"
"I let him keep all that ugly crap I never wanted, like his momma"

@Elwood

@Dwide Schrude, yeah, I prefer "Walk On By" myself. And if "Hyperbolicsyllablecsesquedalymistic" was just 20 seconds or so longer it could have easily made the list as well. Just an amazing album.

because it took so long to bake it
"Hot Buttered Soul", Isaac Hayes, and his 18 minute "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" are all unquestionably great and the latter deserves its spot on the list.

Ok, I think I understand what you mean. His approach to filming may not be as free-form as Altman's, but De Palma doesn't follow the screenwriter's handbook either. His scenes and films may be well thought out and structured, but they don't follow a formula. Good point.

De Palma
I'm not sure if Brian De Palma was a good example of the "feel their way through individual scenes in their movies" school of filmmaking. I find a lot of his work structured and artificial, and I don't necessarily mean in a bad way. He may halt an entire film just to extremely faithfully reference other…

Good points about the poor, preachy sketches. It ended up being a show on a soap box about a show on a soap box and both were supposed to be good because we were told both were good. So meta my head hurt after a while.

"Cheers" reruns can be seen on the Hallmark channel. Believe it or not I actually heard them cut a couple of words out of an episode recently. The one with Harry Connick, Jr.