I remember 2000 being a decided step down from the previous year largely because of that phenomenon. yeah there were still good top tier movies (CTHD, Traffic in my book) but the next one down, particularly that summer movie crop, were pretty inferior. In fact it feels like it took a while for the 2000s to get going,…

Waynes World came out in like February of 92. It also pulled off the impressive feat of lampooning Terminator 2, which had come out just 7 months ago at the time. 

Watching whatever BA content was put out that day on YouTube had become a nightly ritual for me and now even if it come back I have no interest in it because of everything that’s happened.

It’s astounding to me how bad CN fucked this up. They had managed to build their brand and have a social media footprint in spite of all their financial difficulties, then just dug in when problems came to light instead of swiftly and publicly addressing them. Now their in front of camera talent is either tarnished or…

My son got hooked on the show and I picked up on that right away. The worst was this profile of a multi-racial girl who said she got made fun of all the time and broke down in tears in her interview. This was her chance to show everyone. Then she gets on a zipline and eats shit immediately and is never seen or…

She has donald’s vocal cadences and accent, so it’s very strange to have to fight my by now instinctual revulsion to that tone of voice and listen. 

We got some of the collections on Blu ray for our kids when they were going through a Peanuts phase. The 70s specials are surprisingly solid, even the Arbor Day one. Flashbeagle, though, even our then-four year old never wanted to watch it again. 

So after a debut episode covering RHCP’s pretty terrible sounding first two albums, Adam Scott Aukerman abandoned the planned Red Hot Chili Peppers podcast five minutes into the second episode and instead shifted the concept to “U Talkin’ Talking Heads to My Talking Head” and went to that band’s debut album. They are…

I love how fired up his statement was too. “I cancelled the RODEO. You think you’re bigger than that?”

Any time I catch myself wondering why my kids can’t get into early U2 I realize that would have been like someone trying to turn 1983 me onto music from the rockin’ year of 1946. 

Plus it looks like shit in hi def. 

But Daniels demonstrated his admiration for those serving in the armed forces by helping found the Journey Home Project, a non-profit that, per its website, works on “connecting donors to veterans’ organizations that do the most good.”

We’ve been showing our 13 year old daughter favorite movies of our own youth. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is the first movie she unequivocally loved. Like, watched it again by herself that night loved. Since it’s leaving Netflix we watched it again Friday and damn is it a pretty near perfect movie. The past two times…

Yeah, I loved when you’d discover, Holy Shit, that month was AMAZING for movies. Like realizing ET, Blade Runner, and The Thing all came out within a week of each other, or the month in 81 where Superman 2, Dragonslayer, and Clash of the Titans all came out. I left off at another humdinger: March 1984. 

“The” Chuck E. Cheese? “The” “the” the”?! Your German is atrocious!

I understand the reason why they stopped, but man, just a month or two more and they could have ended with THE 80s movie, BTTF. It’s agonizing they didn’t get there. 

What??! Goddamn, you are right. I have a distinct memory of me and my friends fretting that they had softened the rating though. What the hell.

Right around the 2002 mark, this video should loop in some stereotypical corporate executive: “MAIL movies to customers instead of having them come to our stores?! HOGWASH!” Then watch those numbers plunge! 

Our local Cactus Video didn’t even partition off the adult section. It was just in one corner of the store that announced its presence with a poster hanging over it that was a nude woman laying on her side, back to the camera, watching TV. My parents wondered why pubescent Pairesta wanted to go to Cactus every day and…

This is a great article. It really crystallizes that feeling that Something Had Changed that summer. Our local paper used to do a summer movie preview special edition and I still remember them derisively dubbing that summer “Season of the Sequel”. All through the decade, the number of tentpole blockbuster movies out…