Do It For Our Country and Girl For All Seasons for me. But it's not the score, which is much inferior to the original movie; the musical sequences are just much better staged and shot in Grease 2.

I, um, kind of like Grease 2.

But then they should have gone all the way and recruited John Waters to direct. Cry Baby is basically the definitive movie version of Grease.

I just can't get over the cheap appearance of the movie. It has the first-take feel of an old Sam Katzman cheapie, which would be great if I thought it was intentional, but it isn't.

The original stage show isn't, but the movie is.

I defended Melinda And Melinda at The Dissolve, and lived to tell the tale. (By "defend" I mean "once suggested it isn't so bad.")

Bergman also loved Roger Moore-era James Bond.

He just throws it in as an aside, but man, if I'd nearly gotten Kamarr The Discount Magician fired from Ishtar, I would never stop talking about it.

Absolutely. Anyone who could effortlessly steal scenes from Falk and Arkin had to be amazing.

Samuel L. Bronkowitz appreciates your support.

Oh, I routinely describe Hook as the worst film ever made by a major filmmaker. But at least it feels like Spielberg's mistake, indulging in all his worst tendencies. Lost Horizon doesn't feel like Capra—it seems more like it was made by one of those journeyman directors of the thirties, W.S. Van Dyke or Henry King,…

I knew someone would disagree—I once made the mistake of saying Mrs. Miniver was William Wyler's worst film, and of course it turned out to be a favorite of many.

My favorite example of that was Friedkin spending a fortune to cool the set below freezing for The Exorcist—the actors don't have to "act" cold because they actually are. Whenever I see CGIed visible breath, I'm immediately taken out of the movie.

I think it was Roger Ebert who said anytime a movie features nudity, it automatically becomes a documentary, because at that moment we cease seeing the character and automatically start evaluating the actor's body.

"Lionel Barrymore stars in a rare non-crotchety role" made me laugh.

It's been years since I've seen it, and maybe my opinion would be different now. But I remember it as a long, impersonal slog, a sort of generic "prestige picture"—which is odd, because it was a passion project for Capra.

But we can agree Lost Horizon was the worst, right?

Oh, to me The Dissolve was the very model of what a film-based site should be, with razor-sharp writing and commenters that were tuned into the material at hand. It didn't last, obviously, and maybe it couldn't last…but the thing is, The AV Club used to be very nearly the same thing. If you were here enough, you…

Ugh, I missed that. It seems to be part of the problem here: Too uninformed and disinterested writers at this site assume the readership shares their ignorance. I mean, look, I'm older than most commenters here, but even when I was in my twenties (or even my teens), I had knowledge of and appreciation for pop…

I've been a regular reader here since 2006, and while I agree the commentariat largely makes this site worthwhile, it's still a shame that it essentially exists in a vacuum. It used to be the comments were in response to the articles themselves, which were interesting, well-written and worthy of discussion. Now the…