I recently was lamenting to a friend “Metallica never met an album they couldn’t unnecessarily double the length of”. Guys, the CD age ended over a decade ago. No album needs to be 77 minutes any more (and never did) (killer live albums and concept albums that actually work not included).

Exactly.

Oh no, the *actual* ending of War of the Worlds is fine. It’s the “ha, you thought I was dead because obviously I was” kid mentioned in a previous comment.

OK, kept going, and gotta say War of the Worlds is WAY too fucking high on the list. It looks great, sure, and the opening invasion is truly thrilling, but 2 hours of Dakota Fanning screeching and an eye-rolling happy ending left me with an indifferent shrug. I usually don’t rail against the rankings in lists like…

Got to the first (last) entry, saw that Karen Black was incorrectly credited as being in Crystal Skull, sighed, and moved on with my day.

It’s the centerpiece of the one of the Hall’s exhibits. You go into a small theater, there’s smoke and lights and a killer sound system that plays clips from various performances over the years; usually just a snippet. Then they cut right to when Prince comes out, they play the whole solo through to the end, and the…

Maybe it’s Pamela Anderson from 1999, and Tommy Lee Jones from 1979.

Maybe it’s a setup for an extended reboot universe of Calvin & Hobbes & Shaw, where it’s a lion instead of a tiger, the lion realizes he’s the philosophical one in this relationship, and they become friends and punch cars into outer space just in time to give a worm sandwich to Susie (played by Karen Gillan).

In my reality, she did win an Emmy for that episode. And Crash never one Best Picture, unless we’re talking about the Cronenberg film. “Hey Soul Sister” never even got mentioned at the Grammys, etc. etc. It’s a weird and wonderful world, here in my head.

Gwenpool should be a series.

You know, I loved the show, had a New Coke t-shirt specifically (and only) because it featured Max, and the Paranoimia E.P. he did with The Art Of Noise is still my favorite thing from both of them (and the b-sides [sans Max] are fantastic as well). So yeah, bring it on.

Well that comment looks like garbage. Oh well. Kinja!

I’ve got this article bookmarked for when I want to mourn David Warner and also the AVClub: https://www.avclub.com/david-warner-on-twin-peaks-tron-titanic-time-bandits-1798265384

I’ve stopped and started it three times now and am only about halfway through. I was hoping for a dumb but fun time-waster. Instead it’s just dumb and exhausting. I’m trying to think if I’ve heard King’s character string more than two words together in 45 minutes. If you close your eyes, it sounds like a really long…

Thanks for the reminder of all the great writers that used to be on this site! I assume they’ll be compensated in some way?

<place obligatory-yet-inscrutable-to-any-non-MST3k-offshoot fans Rollergator reference here>

I’ve felt this way for about 25 years, but here’s my “hot take” anyway: maybe Baz Luhrmann just isn’t that good at storytelling? Visually, sure, I guess. I mean, I like sugar on my cereal as much as anyone, but I also like, you know, some fucking cereal in there somewhere.

I try not to post this on every article about Triumph, but this thread seemed like it could use something uplifting, and goddammit, I’m just so proud I have it:

A story where the chimp loses, no matter what. Cool. Coolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcool.

I am old (school, and also just old). I like to carefully curate a playlist that’s about 15-20Gb and let ‘er rip over the next several weeks. I’m only allowed to skip tracks if they’re particularly annoying (I always sprinkle with a dash of “something new (to me)“, and it’s the last routine I do that’s preserving…