If I recall that movie, it was really not considered OK.  I think it was supposed to be cringe.

Is the article referring to the final scene? I read that comment about “contemporary audiences”, so of course, I had to read the Wikipedia description... which does not give the impression that the final scene is particularly notable. I then watched the clip on Youtube, and, yeah, maybe a slight plot twist and mild…

Yeah, I was surprised as well to see this on the “worst” side of the list.  I remember almost nothing about the film, other than that I quite enjoyed it and found it funny.

I didn’t like In Utero either initially, mainly because... yeah, I was expecting Nevermind 2.0 as well.

That farm is a pretty long walk from the nearest reasonable parking area.

Because for this particular farm, which is located on a narrow dirt road with no real parking, it used to only be a few people here and there, and they were respectful, and non-intrusive. The volume of people has overwhelmed the capacity of this area to handle them, and the Instagrammers have been trashing the place.…

When I mention to people that my teenage summers involved a lot of road trips down to and around the Jersey Shore, I’ve actually described the experience as kind of like Dazed and Confused, minus the marijuana and plus an ocean.

Oddly enough, soft-core porn like you would see in Playboy seemed to be much, much less taboo in the 60s through maybe the 80s. It was never a magazine that you would read while waiting in the doctor’s office, for example, but it didn’t seem to carry the same stigma back then. Playboy may have gotten away with it…

Well, Hux does blow up several planets for no apparent reason. That kind of goes beyond genocidal. Even Tarkin only managed to destroy one.

Is that like seeing out of only one eye?

It’s really kind of hard to explain to people now that yes, the nudity was the primary draw, but Playboy really did have good articles too.  Long-form journalism and short fiction, vs the listicles that most latter day lad magazines featured.

I made the mistake of Googling “adrenochrome” and skipping the results from Wikipedia and NIH. 

Slate invented the “You’re Doing It Wrong!” article, and that contrarianism just seemed to seep into everything they wrote after that.  The website became an electronic version of that annoying kid we all knew in high school who thought he was cool and smart for having a contrary opinion about everything, but was…

the veteran actor experienced a whole wave of hate after filming Titanic, because, according to her, people said she was too fat for both her and Jack to fit on that infamous door.

I could never figure this out... it generally takes longer to dry clothes than wash them. Wouldn’t it make more sense for a laundromat or common laundry room to have more dryers than washers?

This movie’s lasting contribution will probably be that it gave us the term “to be Batgirled”.

At one clinic where I worked, my work space was just around the corner from the children’s waiting area. They showed the same Dora the Explorer DVD on a loop for weeks at one point. There’s only so many times a human can endure hearing that “Come On, Vamanos” song in one day.

Yes, it seemed odd to limit the list to cinema adaptations when many of the best TV versions were movie-length.

How did these letters even come to light, I wonder? Or did I read that detail in the article and immediately forget?

Even as a kid, I knew those songs were about sex.