Thanks for not making this a slideshow. 

I was 7 when it came out. Didn’t see it in the theatre but remember it being on TV all the time. It has its moments but anytime Eric Shea gets camera time it’s ruinous to the movie.

I love this movie, but the best of the “disaster movies” is Towering Inferno. How can you beat a movie with Steve McQueen AND Paul motherfuckin’ Newman?

Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters, Jack Albertson: when else have so many Oscar winners been gathered together for such a crappy movie?

“The message of Love, Simon’s romantic ending is that the world of the film is ready to accept Simon and Bram’s relationship...”

Doing my best to avoid covers already mentioned:

Always loved Floyd’s “Animals”.

Bowie and GBV both have great album covers for completely different reasons.

It’s the noses. They both basically have the same noses.

Cruise definitely had the more difficult role. Hoffman just had to get into character and do his routine: repeat dialogue, rock back and forth, ignore everything else around him. Cruise had to react and perform around that, basically getting nothing from his co-star. 

I thought Cruise’s performance deserved a nom, at least. It’s still the best acting I’ve ever seen him do.

He should have won for Magnolia instead of Michael Caine and his kings of New England

Tom Cruise is a weirdo with some bad opinions, and the article was spot-on about him having morphed into Jackie Chan, but he really is a powerful actor, and the article rightly credits him with brilliant, star-making choices. He should have gotten an Oscar somewhere along the way.

It’s hardly an original opinion, I know, but I always thought Cruise deserved the Oscar more than Hoffman did.

I have an autistic family member and I think it’s a reasonable depiction. The detachment is accurate, the inability to make eye contact. My relative is not a savant but he does have a fixation with numbers and especially dates and can (and will) tell you the birthday of everyone he knows.  

The most prominent autistic character I can remember before Rain Man was Tommy Westphall on St. Elsewhere, which was a really bad depiction.

Yeah, it was really sad to watch the guy who directed ‘The Natural,’ ‘ Young Sherlock Holmes,’ and ‘Good Morning, Vietnam’ go down the road of generic Hollywood crap.

A Fish Called Wanda, Die Hard, Beetlejuice and Big are all cruddy movies? SURE thing. 

I haven’t seen this movie in decades, but I’ve been meaning to give it a re-watch since my son was diagnosed on the spectrum.

From the tone of this article, is it implying that Mars Attacks is now some kind of misunderstood gem? It was weak when I first saw it, and last time I caught a piece of it a few years ago, it didn't appear to have aged particularly well.