Joss Whedon. He made "The Avengers", one of the greatest cinematic experiences I've ever had.

Exactly. I don't know what kind of alchemy it employed, but Napoleon Dynamite made me laugh like a hyena for its entire running time. Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.

No, not liking "Watchmen" is baffling. "Desperately Seeking Susan" is just fluff, fluff that wasn't made that well.

Understood. Thank you.

Ha! No, not at all. And neither were the 16 year old triplet sisters from up the street that I went to see the movie with. Even they hated it. All four of us walked out.

Oh, and the only other movie I've ever walked out on was "Desperately Seeking Susan". I guess not being a 14 year old girl in 1984 left me without the proper framework for appreciating that god-awful dreck.

"Mixed Nuts". It's a Steve Martin "comedy" from the early 90s, where he works, if I recall correctly, at a suicide hotline. Maybe it was our mood, maybe it was the alignment of the stars, but my then-girlfriend and I looked at each other with that "this sucks!" stare about 10 painfully laugh-free minutes into it. We…

Like a lot of you fans who have posted below, I'm both excited for and apprehensive about this new series. I am one of those people who tuned out after Trace left. I tried, believe me, but I could never get used to the new Crow voice. It made me mental. (And I could not STAND Pearl.) Has enough time passed where I can…

Years ago I read a (perhaps apocryphal) story about the genesis of this show. Leavitt and Moye pitched the show to Fox execs. When their presentation was over, there were a lot of side-eyes and uncomfortable shifting in seats among the suits. Finally an exec told them, "We're sorry, but we'll have to pass." So Leavitt…

In the summer of 87, my friend Sam, who was a huge Prince fan, made me sit down and listen - really LISTEN - to "Sign 'O' The Times". I was aware of Prince… I mean, after the "Purple Rain" explosion in 84, was there anyone who didn't know him? But I was more of a casual listener… I liked what I heard, but it didn't…

Good call on Deathstroke. One of my favorite villains. Like you, I came for the costume, but stayed for the bad-assery.

I didn't see this until it came out on home video. And when it got to the point represented by the clip above - Cusack's comment about not being committed, about having one foot out the door - I felt my world collapse around me. I'd been doing that very thing, pining over a lost love and keeping current ones at arm's…

Looks like Gwen and I are the same age. Some of those lists start in the 80s!!!!!!! which makes my soul hurt.

The best part of the film.

Peter Gabriel's "Passion" soundtrack. With two different women, a decade apart.

I wish I could point to this one movie as the cause, but no, there were problems bigger than a giant monkey.

I took my then-girlfriend-now-ex-wife to see this when it came out. She fell asleep half-way through it.

"The Giant Gila Monster" is probably my favorite of the entire run. It's got great riffs and tons of stupid material that the gang really tears into. And just the little random bits are stellar: When the nosy sheriff randomly opens a door in the garage, and Crow gives a Frankenstein-like "GRRRRR!"… it still kills me,…

There's a typo in the title of this article. Michael Bay gave us TWO good movies: "The Rock", and "Armageddon".

For me it was Queen's "Hot Space". I was 16 years old when it came out, and I had no idea what I was listening to. I had already heard "Under Pressure" on the US version of "Greatest Hits", so that one doesn't count. (And it doesn't sound like anything else on the album anyway.) The hard-left-turn that Freddie took…