They all resort to the “damn kids are too woke today” thing when they become too old and out of touch rather than actually doing the work of attempting to stay relevant.

Man, I love it when they fucked with the shipping fandom. Put in all those kisses that didn’t happen, or happened to someone who wasn’t actually Mulder/Scully, or put them undercover as a couple.  

Shane Black invented action movies at Christmas. 

I’m too old for this “Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? shit.

Are we forgetting Shane Black?

Look. if you’re just going to ignore John Belushi laying waste to the buffet in Animal House, and “Let’s see if you can guess what I am now...” I refuse to take you seriously.

Yes. Along with the pastry eating scene in Inglorious Bastards.

No, the second one should be Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. And the third Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.

A twist on the theme, but I get your point.

I tend to agree that Concrete Island and High Rise are Ballard’s best novels, but Crash is really unique and interesting and haunting and so are The Drowned World and The Crystal World

The key is that Gibson has nothing to say about Jesus - there isn’t an effort to understand him, let alone question what all this pain means. It just wallows in gore with the implicit understanding that it’s Really Important. Once you take away that understanding, there's just the wallow. 

Oh yeah, I love that book and most of the casting and adaptation. Thankfully, Scorsece cuts out some of the redundant and boring bits, though unfortunately, the typically awesome Harvey Keitel flopped a bit in what was likely the second most important role in the book.

When you figure out what actually happened in the “lust” segment of the film... the mental images are far worse than anything they could have shown. 

Crash does a good job recapturing the detached tone of the JG Ballard novel, which is particularly weird in the book because the narrator is supposed to be Ballard himself 

I’d have included Takashi Miike’s Audition from 1999 to the list.

The very first movie on this list came out in 1996...

Come on, no Hannibal Lecter feeding Paul Krendler his own brain?

THIS!