Tom Petty's chord changes and melody were hardly groundbreaking or original. It just a simple Em/G/D repeated ad nauseum. I wouldn't have given that hack a dime.

I loved Real Genius.

For me patient zero was Lars and the Real Girl and Dan in Real Life - never again.

Stan Lee didn't create the Marvel Universe single-handedly. Give Kirby, Ditko, and the others their props.