Personally I’m waiting for an all-encompassing VR technology that will cost an absolute fortune, but let me escape my real life by playing 80s video games, and quoting 80s movies.

Joking not aside, that’s a big factor for me with a long film. If I spend the second half internally debating whether I can get to the end of the film, and if not, what would be an appropriate moment to step out, then I’m not enjoying the film as much as I should be.

That seems to have been more of a US than a UK thing.  In the early 80s I was playing D&D at lunchtime at my Catholic boys’ school with a teacher who was a member of the religious order that ran the school, supervising.

U2 were one of the very few “current” acts you were allowed to like (along with Echo and the Bunnymen). The only other acceptable acts to be into were cribbed from your older brother’s extensive record collection (I could never work out why everybody’s older brother had had far more money for buying music than we…

So I assume Once Upon a Time in the West is Number 1+?

That’s fair - but the song’s success led to them focusing too much on covers.  Their earlier self-penned social commentary songs were brilliant.

Paid by the word and doesn’t it show?

Definitely some too cool for school omissions, but Just Can’t Get Enough at 30 is trying way too hard.

I enjoyed the original Bill & Ted 3 discussions, primarily because they made me think of an old Onion article with a headline something like “Alex Winter still bugging Keanu Reeves about making another Bill & Ted movie”.

Bogus Journey deserves better than this.  It’s a solid sequel.

That was the way I interpreted the headline initially.  Having given it a a couple more seconds of thought, that probably reflects badly on me.

While the versions of Life During Wartime and Take Me to the River from this film may be the best versions, the ultimate performance of Once in a Lifetime is of course this one.

I never tire of that clip!

The cool kids all had Wide Awake in America. The rest of us just had Under a Blood Red Sky.

Alternative headline, Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore have a little good-natured fun at each other’s expense.

It’s good fun.

I’d have Hear My Song, and Flight of the Doves in the list.  And also The Young Offenders, although I think the TV series that film spawned is even better.

It might be underseen by the kids today, but back when it came out, everybody I knew saw it, and everybody had the soundtrack. Great film, and a special shout out to Bronagh Gallagher for playing her 24 years younger self in the final episode of Derry Girls last year.

Although I was only 11 when the 70s ended, my older brother’s record collection largely shaped my own musical taste, and Rumours and Parallel Lines were two of the records of his I played most, along with Led Zeppelin IV and Thick as a Brick. All the early Blondie albums are pretty great.

The Joshua Tree is pretty close to the perfect album. I’d rank it alongside Rumours and Parallel Lines as an album with no hint of a weak link.