I had put together a lot of that, but seeing it spelled out was pretty cool. I could not have written that out for this movie, for sure!

I feel like that's a fair criticism of Con Air, but in The Rock Cage is very much not an action hero. I mean, he's a hero in an action movie, but he's not given Mission Impossible, Jason Bourne etc. action scenes so much as he uses his chemical super freak knowledge to outsmart the big strong bad guys.

The Rock is my second favorite action movie (Die Hard is an unoriginal choice for first but don't care). Then there's like a 9 way tie for 3rd place.

for. real.

Yeah, and there are some terrible songs too ("Holly Wood" for instance). What really worked for me on Afterman was that, as nerdy as it is, I understood and really liked the story. I can't tell you what's going on in the vast majority of their albums in terms of the concept, but I really like the Afterman story a…

Don't get me wrong, the music itself I like. I don't mind that it's long. Buty because it's so long it suffers by comparison to "Transatlanticism" for me, which is this killer centerpiece in between "Tiny Vessels" and "Passenger Seat". Those songs help it out for me too. Where that song has that near epic "so…

Yes! Perfect

Okay, one I haven't seen on here, and most people probably would say "I was turned off after the first song I heard" but Dave Matthews Band. In high school I got into them via drums. Remember Crash and Before These Crowded Streets as just fantastic summertime albums overall though. But after seeing them play a then…

Cassadega is what did it for me. I wanted to like Digital Ash but could never get into it. I still loved I'm Wide Awake though. Cassadega was… I don't really remember. I never really went back after that.

This was one of the bands I was going to say. '59 Sound is one of my favorite albums of the last 10 years. Sink or Swim, while repetitive, has some fantastic tunes and Senor and the Queen split the difference perfectly. Handwritten is a better album than American Slang - songs like Handwritten, 45, Howl, National…

Codes and Keys was fine, what made me go "no, just no" was "I Will Possess Your Heart". I like the base line, but not for 10 fucking minutes. And the lyrics are trite and creepy garbage. I get there was Stability, and Transatlanticism before it, and they could be called unnecessarily long, but man IWPYH is just…

I was a Coheed nut. Still sorta am. Color Before the Sun, even though there are a couple okay songs, is the only Coheed album I didn't wind up liking vastly more than when I first heard it.

I have the hardest time explaining why, but I have a soft spot for Dizzy. The lead song is solid, Slide was fine enough, but damn if I don't love Black Balloon for some reason. Iris, okay worthy of some hate, but yeah. I still defend that album.

I still love the way the drums from March lead into Dashboard on that album. When I got it I was sold at that point more than most any moment on Good News

I got into them with Science, and still thoroughly loved Make Yourself. But the moment I heard "Wish You Were Here" I was basically done. I gave the album a chance, and Morning View has some solid tunes that I do enjoy. But they clearly spent way too much time surfing and not enough time making that album. Some of…

I was never in love with X&Y, but I was done with Viva La Vida. That was like them giving up on the Radiohead influence and trying to ape Arcade Fire's live show. No thank you.

I like that list, though I'd put Moon first. I always think I want to rate Long Drive higher because Dramamine is probably my favorite MM song, but that album drags a bit for me.

I came to Pinkerton late because I wasn't really a big fan of Blue when it came it. If Pinkerton had been their first album I'd have been apologizing for Weezer for the rest of my life because that album is damn near perfect.

As someone who loved MM since about 2000 (I can never decide my favorite album, but usually come down on the side of Moon and Antarctica) I point to Dashboard as a perfect example of a band going mainstream while holding on to just about everything that made them loved by their fans. But to turn on them there, and…

Agree, I get how people who were listening since Murmur would turn on them, but I figured that would have happened by Green or Out of Time. That Automatic is what finally did it is hard for me to grasp. I went back to that album a year or two ago and it's remarkable.