And when he half tries, you get the abomination of his Irish accent in The Untouchables.

Nanobots. Or a wizard did it. Or a wizard with nanobots in his mouth and when he casts spells he shoots nanobots at you. Or it was just a robotic Richard Simmons.

I felt like I was the only kid in my 2nd grade class that didn’t see this movie in the theater.

The video for “You Could Be Mine” - not just promoting new GN’R at peak GN’R, promoting this movie, but showing us all (well, a lot of) the craziest CGI effects from the movie that we had no idea could even be done - was and might still be the purest hype object I’ve ever seen.

This is a good point.  I think “Jurassic Park” getting the PG-13 would solidify the shift to family movies = PG-13 (and help kill off the “kid power” movie trend that’s so embarrassing to look back on now) and more leeway being given to the violence that was acceptable with that rating.

The real surprise with “Hook” ended up being the way that it ended up playing second fiddle to “Beauty and the Beast”. The New York Times pointed out in the months that followed that “Hook” could have been the world-beater it was intended as had it not arrived a few weeks after “Beauty”, which was never the #1 film at…

I like that you mention Fury Road. As you say T2 is a freaking spectacle of awesome and I remember also being blown away when I originally saw it in theaters. Didn’t felt that way for an action flick again until Fury Road. Also pure amazing spectacle. 

T2 is fucking amazing. I was right in the bullseye of the target demographic in 1991: 15-year-old suburban white dude, and I went all-in on every aspect of it. The stunt work and effects (both practical and digital) were unbelievable, and folded into the story so well that your immediate response wasn’t “wow, this…

Exactly. Same thing with Alien vs. Aliens. Sequels, but the first horror, second action.

Hey, everybody! It’s that guy!

Not well.

Make everything a talk show sketch. The show is 90% talk show sketches anyway. 

Which is more likely to lead to someone getting really hurt - watching Home Alone at 4 or Jackass: The Movie at 14?

Since I know everyone wants to know, the hardest I ever laughed in a movie theatre was for the Naked Gun.  In particular the nude statues scene which seldom gets shown on TV. Hardest I laughed at a TV show was a 90 minute Loony Tunes show (which had many of the classics) when I was about 11.  

Yeah, that was a book where, even at the time I read it at about 11 or so, I thought to myself “oh, this is R.A. Salvatore for adults!”, because even at that tender age, I recognized the combination of technology fetishism, and the plot contrivances required to keep the situation from going nuclear, which would have…

I’m almost the exact same age as Mac, so my god was he an icon to me when this came out.

Thanks for not making this a slideshow. 

I kinda hope it was Mr Z’s. The only family owner grocery store I ever stepped into. Was sad when it closed.

This is still the Gotham City aesthetic that I think most perfectly captures what Gotham “should” look like. All the statues of muscular men pulling levers and “glory of labor” aesthetic, but rotting down. Sort of an amalgamation of the Rust Belt cities fused with Diego Rivera and communist propaganda. What a genius…

Pepe Silvia’s favorite song.