And I should have paid more attention before posting, because the other two recommended stories are other A.V. Club articles promoting this same series of critiques of CinemaSins videos — one from as recently as Oct. 26th (the other’s from Aprin 2016). On the plus side, I guess, at least both of these earlier stories…

I can’t help but be amused by the fact that right under this article on of the “Recommended Stories” from the A.V. Club being suggested to me is “Everything Wrong with Zak Snyder’s Sucker Punch” — which is a Great Job, Internet, linking straight to a CinemaSins video.

I think Alien’s gotta be right up there, even setting aside Skerritt (as a star) and Weaver (as a newcomer). And while I wouldn’t myself place it anywhere near either The Thing or Alien, I could imagine a spirited argument for Predator, especially for a particular kind of “let’s fill this platoon with striking…

“Because not everyone likes the same stuff as you do and that’s perfectly okay?”

Well, once you strip out all the endless interior monologues of characters repeating the Princess Bride scene of "I know that he knows that I know that he thinks he knows that I think…" the whole series probably compresses down to about 45 minutes…

How did he manage to name a STEPdaughter? Did he marry a pregnant woman? Did he impose a legal name change on the stepdaughter?

That Excorcist track may be the single worst commentary track I have ever experienced. I ended up skipping ahead chapters to see if he ever shifted to a proper mode, but nope, it was always, "And now she's opening the door. She wants to know what's happening inside the room. Now she enters the room and looks around…"

I always thought it looked like candle wax, like it should burn you if you got it on your skin.

Anyone seen the Australian true crime movie Snowtown (or just know the story)? Bannon is John Bunting and Trump is Jamie Vlassakis.

I've only recently begun to experience the deeper wells of YouTube content (my jumping off point was critiques/debunkings of ghosthunting videos which then led to the source videos themselves). But I'm kind of fascinated by this weirdly uniform YouTuber rhetoric, especially the ubiquitous "Hey guys…" and this thing…

Well, by the principles of homeopathy, where dilution makes something more and more potent, HPW should basically be like nuclear waste.

I don't know. All this "I lost subscribers, it must be a trick YouTube is pulling!" sounds an awful lot like, "I must have won the popular vote by millions, and it's only fraud that makes it seem otherwise, because I'm a winner and people love me!"

Yes, Star Trek has a good excuse for humanoid aliens — the limits of 60s television effects budgets (though, to be fair, the original series had a healthy number of nonhumanoid aliens — the Horta, the Tholians, all the energy creatures WrongAvatar mentions — maybe even more than the later Trek series, who leaned even…

If you've never played a Civ game before, though, the DLC might be rather overwhelming. It's one thing to learn how the tourism mechanic works when you already know about trade and religions and ideologies and espionage and the other systems. But if all of that is dropped on you at once, it could be pretty…

That standard, though, would exclude Texas Chain Saw Massacre as a horror movie. And while I'd concede movies with similar content like Deliverance and Psycho could both fairly be classed as thrillers or suspense, TCM is totally horror.

I rather wonder if what Lucas really meant (or at least was really thinking) was not that Star Wars wasn't for girls, but that Star Wars toys weren't for girls. Girls may have liked Star Wars, but they weren't buying the merch in remotely comparable numbers. So this movie was an attempt to make a Star Wars-level…

My brother got a Vive, and I got to play with it when I visited him this summer. It really is a fantastic experience — but room-scale VR has such steep requirements for a lot of people (like a bare minimum of 8x10 feet of open space that you can frame with the sensors) that it really seems unlikely that it will be…

Oh man, my late 90s college LAN experience can be summed up by images of Homer Simpson blasting a Dalek with a shotgun or Boba Fett firing a railgun at Harley Quinn in Quake III. And all the different soundbites playing over and over and over again. I seem to recall the Homer model having a death sound clip that was…

Since I don't see it mentioned yet, I just want to shout out the music for the original Lemmings. It doesn't have the same level of pop culture recognition, but I'd rate it right along side Tetris for perfectly engaging themes that mesh with the content.

I think your mid- to late-20th-century list is really limited. Are you just throwing E.B. White, Beverly Cleary, Judy Blume, Roald Dahl, etc. under the bus?