Yep. Ocean’s 11 has arguably the most charm and swagger per second of runtime of any movie in the last 30 years.

Chamber also has a murder mystery plot which lends itself pretty well to film, I think.

I’m a sucker for movies where a large group of friends work together for a common goal. Unlike most heist movies, there is no rotten apple in Ocean’s crew. There’s some bickering but nobody isn’t completely onboard.

Just rewatched it a couple of weeks ago, and can totally second that motion. It’s crazy how much of the movie is sold on the effortless-looking chemistry between Clooney and Pitt. My favorite scene is Clooney talking himself into recruiting an eleventh member while Pitt sits slumped over the bar, looking at nothing,…

Wouldn’t that be stepping on the toes of the classic AVClub series “My Year of Flops”

Exactly. You could’ve spent a movie, either before Episode II or between Episodes II and III, establishing Obi Wan and Anakin as close friends who really care about each other, rather than making the Phantom Menace. That would give their squabbling in II and the end of their friendship in III some context and weight. Y…

Honestly, the reason I wish the fistfight with Greedo was in was because I didn’t find that line (or the later scene where he has to look angrily at Yoda) very effective. At least if he’s getting into fights (and moreso if the script backed it up by having his mother say he gets into a lot of fights) that’d be a way…

The thrilling settings are actually thrilling. The sarlacc pit, the speeders in the forest and the walkers, the pit in jabba’s palace, there is fucking nothing in the prequels that approaches any of those.  Like...try to put yourself back in the position people were in when they saw those for the first time.  I had a…

While the Ewok uprising had it’s eye-rolling moments, Jar Jar and Anakin’s endless slapstick during the final battle made an already boring movie completely unwatchable.

I watched this again after almost 20 years because my son wanted to see it (he’s 13).  It’s a genuinely bad movie, but if you take away a few bad choices it could have worked.  I agree that Anakin shouldn’t have been a kid, Jar Jar should have been shelved or toned down, and the Gungans should have been given more…

Well, it’s not like you need an extra fork to eat steamed hams.

I generally enjoy the show, but I consistently have a problem with its beat-to-beat dialogue flow. The individual lines themselves are usually fine, but the way conversations proceed often feel stilted and unnatural. The conversational logic is sometimes skewed. When Peli Motto is talking to Din about Mos Pelgo, he…

Say what you want about returning to Tatooine but at least it’s Tatooine and not a planet that’s essentially Tatooine but not Tatooine like Jakku.

Anything to deflect the conversation away from Tim causing the largest concert tragedy since Altamont, am I right?

I don’t know what’s funnier, the tackle box of toppings or the way he just keeps hitting variations of the word “Undercut.”

What the world needs now is another folk singer, like I need a hole in my head.

Let him finish!!! “Eddie Van Halen: meh favorite guitar player.”

Set aside the concept of best for a moment.

Who the hell shows up here to post some lame shit like that? Bad form, dude.

Van Halen was one of those bands who transcended genres and were beloved by everyone. I don’t know of anyone back then who would deny the greatness of “Running With the Devil” It was the Van Hagar portion of Van Halen that turned off the kids in the 90's because Hagar took the music seriously. Diamond David Lee Roth…