I think that’s part of why Fury Road gets the adulation it does - they just don’t make movies that feel like that anymore. The gravity, the danger, the spectacle, all of it. Even the better traditional action movies like John Wick don’t have the scale of Fury Road (or its forefathers like T2).

The whole thing is such a perfect snapshot of the early, pre-Nirvana/grunge 90s. 

I was four years old in 1991 and I remember kids in my preschool class playing with Terminator toys and acting like they had seen the movie. Looking back, I can’t believe that a parent would take a four or five year old to see Terminator 2, but I guess anything is possible.

Hook was the first movie I consciously remember going to see in a movie theater, so I’ve always had a personal soft spot for it. I’ll concede that it’s lesser Spielberg, but it has its charms.

A wizard did it.

Jurassic Park is the only movie that comes close for me.

Similar to the “unrated” versions of early-aughts comedies. The gags they added in were almost always better left in some bonus feature rather than crammed into the movie itself.

Just play one of those “best of Chris Farley” tapes every Saturday night and see if anyone notices.

The president is a damn orange cheeto! 

Hold on a minute. A foul-mouthed...cartoon? Can they do that?

Marv turning into a skeleton while being electrocuted lends in Home Alone 2 some credence to the “live action cartoon” idea.

I just did the classic “catch it 1/3 of the way through the movie and watch it until the end” with Apollo 13 just last week. 

Home Alone at 4 is more likely to get someone’s parents hurt, but Jackass at 14 is more likely to get someone to hurt themselves. I’m going with Jackass at 14.

I was too young to have caught this in theaters, but my parents did rent it when it came out on VHS the next year. I would’ve been about four years old the first time I saw it and I don’t think I’ve had the same sort of hysterical laughing reaction to a movie until Jackass came out a decade later. 

It’s definitely one of those movies. A Few Good Men is on the list, too, along with the Ocean’s movies and Goodfellas.

In a movie with many scenes of cartoonish violence, that was the most horrific and visceral.

The White Castle in that shopping complex was a frequent destination for me in high school. Good times.

You’re not crazy. It was a much weirder and more interesting romance than the Pam and Jim one.

Would that be the Jewel that’s on the other side of the parking lot from Enchanted Castle?

Glad that Live at the Purple Onion made the cut. I hope Zach Galifianakis and his brother Seth have mended fences.