Yeah, whenver I drop in on a James Bond film on cable, Diamonds Are Forever is the most painful.   And it has the least exotic location of any Bond film--he’s at Circus Circus, that’s for the rubes, not James Bond!

To be fair though, Fred Thompson had political experience as a lawyer and also played a military or political guy so many times in the movies that old people just assumed he already was elected before he even ran.

“She’s a brick and I’m throwing it slowly...at your head!” - the Ben Folds Anti-Five

^Every single person who has ever seen Belly

Apparently they count every copy of The Wall twice because it’s a double album... Actually Dark Side outsold it with about 15 million copies, but they count the Wall’s 11.5 million copies as two albums each.

Well most of the top selling albums are dad rock, though mostly they’re all grandpas or grandparent-aged at this point. So it’s really grandpa rock. And I’m on the border of Gen X/Millenial age groups, but I’ve owned probably 7 of those albums(though a few I got passed down from my mom).

1998(and 1997 to be honest) were good years for music that I’d discover a little later in my twenties in the early 2000s . But I was a teen at the time and was just upset that jiggy-era hip hop and boy band pop was suddenly king and my favorite rap groups and rock bands from the 90s all seemed to be either putting out…

It’s not just songs released in 1998, because I see a number of 1997 songs on the full list(Semi-charmed life and Bittersweet Symphony were still being played a lot in 1998 apparently) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1998

Darjeeling is worth watching, I enjoyed it, even if it ranks lower on my list of favorite Anderson films—-but The Kinks probably got a boost in album sales after that film and that’s always a good thing. I think if anything Anderson after making having a lot of similar themes about family in his movies from Rushmore…

Wes Anderson deserves credit for casting an real hipster like Schwartzman as a hipster in his films. No “squarewashing” in his movies, he reached out to the hipster community and made sure hipster actors received representation playing themselves.

Yes, but the Tunisian film board is ready to play ball and always willing to cut a sweet deal...

Big deal, we’ve had robot entertainers and bands since the 1970s.

Pretty sure he’s satirizing that sort of urban elitist mentality.

Pusha T started out with quarter pounders and moved up to kilos.

Rag van, livin’ in a forest...

Maybe this is what Indiana Jones will be looking for in that next installment set in the 1970s.

I hope they remember Strawberries Romanoff

Steak is so easy to cook at home I just never bother ordering it at restaurants. It’s such a better bargain to grill a steak at home and it’s so quick compared to the long process of slow-cooked bbq—and plus I always get my steak however I want it and not have a restaurant mess it up(which is medium-rare leaning…

Yeah, the only way this movie isn’t silly at Stallone’s age is if they take it back to something like First Blood. Now what you described could be a good little film like Rocky Balboa or Creed turned out to be, but I fear they’ll just make it like Rambo IV with Stallone approaching his mid-70s.

“Bollocks! You mean there’s ‘nother fookin’ giant shark in me ocean ‘ere? I ‘ad just ‘bout ‘nough of these bloody megs, you ‘ear me!”