Well, WhiskeyRiot, isn't that what hipster douchebags do to while away the tedious monotony of their lives?

Power pop a tough sell?
Hmmm.
Maybe I'm giving too much credit to these bands, but have you ever heard of
Blondie
The Cars
Bon Jovi
The Knack
etc.?

I heard Ol' Conway sing it in the 70s, but I had never heard this version. His voice sounds (to me) better than Conway.

First, O Registered User, you start bitching about/defending TomWaits for Snowman. That seems to be the common theme of this sub-thread.

So then, theoretically speaking, could there ever be QVQA?

Tom Waits did you mean that 5th base is Threat Vulnerability Testing and Assessment?

If you start with Misery just keep this in mind: it's one of the few King books that is even remotely likely to happen.

Wizard and Glass was great in the middle section dealing with young Roland and Susanna. Beginning and end=meh.

Mr Apollo: I bet you clean your plate too. And yeah, I'm guilty of reading books, watching movies, etc. to the end hoping they will get better, or at least so I can feel I haven't totally wasted those hours of my life that I will never get back.

Having read many of King's books, I feel qualified to offer my take. I really loved first three novels of The Dark Tower series, the first half of The Stand, Needful Things, Gerald's Game (until King wandered off into lala land), Desperation, Dolores Claiborne, The Green Mile and The Lawnmower Man. But eventually I…

I don't understand why you guys would read all the way through a book you found tedious and boring, or watch a movie that you hated, etc. Or maybe it's just that you want to bitch about it.

OK, the question currently before the committee is: Does Sean Connery get a free pass? I believe he does because his work in these movies raised their quality measurably:
Highlander (although he couldn't help Highlander 2)
Finding Forrester
THFRO
The Untouchables
First Knight

I don't understand you guys. Who has time to not only watch the Food Network at all, but to develop an intense dislike for the host of one of the shows?

Hmmm. Methinks there are a lot of posters here who are still in the "This is the worst thing ever" stage. I'm in my 6th (!! where in hell did the time go?) decade and from experience I can say that you just have to keep putting one foot in front of another.

@teadoust: I'm with you here, bud. The general run of posters here seem to have been hatched from the same egg carton. It's incredibly easy to anonymously post hate filled screeds with no fear of retribution.
And I'm sure to receive some of that hate for agreeing with you. But so what? No one actually knows who or…

To the Arch Gabriel: that sounds like that dude in the Soloist.

*no*

See, here's the thing
about movie reviewers. They seem to analyze to the final frame any movie they watch, and I think it takes away from the fun of a movie like Ghostbusters. It's a fun movie! It doesn't have a 'deeper' meaning.
And it has some of the funniest one-liners in a movie.

Wasn't the ZZTop song 'I Heard it on the X' about that pirate radio station in Mexico?

In Joseph Heller's book 'Catch-22' there is a character named Popinjay.