There were meta moments in "His Girl Friday", which predates "Arsenic and Old Lace" by 4 years.

In "His Girl Friday", there was also this reference to Cary Grant's real name…

I take the second paragraph back. As was stated on a later episode, the DHS they were referring to was the Demographic and Health Survey. I am not one to shy away from my own errors.

Divad
Is there really a point to whispering the name "David" backwards? It's sounds pretty much the same as saying it correctly.

I saw the British version of "The Office" before I saw the US version. I think they are about equal, but for different reasons. Ricky Gervais' smarminess trumps Steve Carell's cluelessness, but the supporting cast on the US version is better; sillier and broader but it ends up funnier. The Jim/Dwight rivalry is…

Brett as Holmes
The 1980's-90's British TV series "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" with Jeremy Brett as Holmes was a non-disapointing, straightforward version of Doyle's stories. It stuck to the source material, captured the detail without being boring, and played Holmes as difficult and unlikable. Just as George…

=stairs
So a 90 minute movie about being stuck on a ski lift. Can a movie about being stuck on a broken escalator be far behind? Maybe there can be a riveting scene where rescuers try to lower down Orange Juliuses and Auntie Anne's Pretzels to the stranded mall walkers.

td
"Seriously, I secretly think David Cross or Patton Oswalt designed this as a gag."

Riverdale
When Hiro was trying to say Riverdale in comic-speak, why did he have to talk about swamp dragons and Arkham Castle? Isn't Riverdale part of the comic lexicon by way of Archie Comics?

Why does he need the other people?
"(Samuel) needs the guy to make his carnival's valley overflow with greenery so he can have a home. Why does he need the other people? We still don't know…"

I mix up these films all the time. When I see something referring to "Flight of the Navigator" I think "that was a decent sci-fi, time travel story, why all the hate". Takes me a second to realize what they mean since I never saw "Flight of…" and don't even remember when it came out.

@ Not

I saw "Beastmaster 2". Because there were so many unanswered questions from "Beastmaster".

@ frankz

wow
I have never seen this movie because it looked like a god-awful rip-off of "E.T". You're description and summary makes it sound far, far worse than I could have ever imagined. Thanks for the warning.

So let me get this straight…

@ Holland Oates

Chop off the last 10 minutes and lose Jude Law playing songs out of his head, and "A.I." is pretty good.

I had forgotten how good 1999 was.

great list
I still don't get the love for "Almost Famous", but thanks for skipping "The Departed" and "Knocked Up" (they didn't even make the orphans section). I was surprised to see "American Psycho" and "The Man Who Wasn't There". Not because I don't like them (I do, a lot), but because very few people even…