Someone is going to be deeply disappointed by Raise the Titanic.

Regarding "Missing in Action"
"Later entries in the Rambo franchise wound up taking their cues from Chuck Norris' [stupid epithet removed] quest to re-fight and win the Vietnam War"

taking the AV Club to school
"[King Solomon's Mines et al] were first adapted for the big screen in 1950."

So many drugged out space miners. And who's gonna help Connery? Nobody! That's who!

Here's a few
The Clash - Combat Rock - "Ghetto Defendant" (yes, that is Allen Ginsberg doing the spoken word background vocals, and also vividly demonstrating the difference between a master of poetic language and a rock music lyricist)

If P. T. Anderson had any balls
he would skewer mohammedism or catholicism. Scientology is just easy pickin's. Hey, but Anderson, at least you won't need to build a panic room in your house over this one.

The food: Matt's Cookies
Can you name the movie?

the second half
"the second part, published as Tigers And Traitors, isn't in the big box of paperbacks"

Cry little sister
Come, come to your brother
Unchain me sister
Love is with your brother

* AV Club spells it both ways:

Ridley Scott making Forever War?
Some people were commenting above about "The Forever War" (as being, along with Naked to the Stars, a counterpoint to Starship Troopers) so this group might be interested to hear The Forever War is (supposedly) Ridley Scott's next movie project. However, he's been trying to get this…

"the opening scene in the exoskeleton suits is amazing "

The DVD was released in 2003. Same cover art, same extras. The BR is new.

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Book: Frank Herbert's Dune
Definitive version: Lynch version may be an interesting movie but it botches the second half completely. Strange to say it, but the SciFi Channel/German production is definitive (…although imagine if the David Lean/Robert Bolt version had been completed!)

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Book: Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
Definitive version: John Huston; really a perfect adaptation and a great movie; I don't know what "mystic revelation" you thought was in the book but not in Huston's movie.

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Book: Sherlock Holmes stories
Definitive version: Jeremy Brett series

AVC phones it in
This has got to be the worst thought out article the AV Club has ever put together. Here's a few responses, but frankly I could have gone on all night:

Bay did a couple of good movies, namely
The Island and The Rock. Armageddon was OK, too. However, the first Transformers movie was an abomination (on par with that shitty Seth Rogen mall cop movie). Considering Ebert gave the first Transformers a near perfect rating, he bears partial responsibility for the…

Merritt is not a lesser pulp author — he's a giant in pre-STF argosy/weird fiction.

William Peter Blatty wrote and directed Exorcist III, so he's got no one to blame but himself if it's not what he wanted. Personally, I liked Exorcist III a lot as well as The Ninth Configuration; these are the only two movies he ever directed, which is a shame.