I thought “Forrest Gump” was a perfectly enjoyable, well-crafted movie that absolutely did not deserve the level of attention and devotion it got and still gets.

Incidentally, I also worked at Blockbuster in spring of ‘95, and don’t remember being subjected to a “GUMP” nametag. Not sure how I avoided that grim fate.

Also…

For a while in the 80s, I was a regular “Cinefex” reader. :)

ST: TMP is better than its reputation; probably better than you remember.

As a bunch of us found at an anniversary screening last fall, sure, it’s clunky, but much of it works.

Also, the design work is astounding, and I’m glad this book is coming out.

As an aside, I found out a couple years ago that watching this movie…

The team put some real thought into that bit, too.

Oh, also: I know a lot of people think the San Diego sequence feels tacked on, but it was EXACTLY the kind of thing the first one left me wanting. :) 

I actually like “Lost World” better in some ways.

I think Moore works better than Dern as the female lead, Vanessa Lee Chester is much better as The Kid, and I dug Postlethwaite’s vibe as the jaded hunter.

I’ve gone back to buying physical CDs for music I really care about. The vagaries of who owns what have caused me to lose some digital files.

Anyway, depending on the album and where you get it from, you can often find used copies for less even than the cost of buying it digitally.

“I slammed on the brakes”

PLEASE DO NOT READ GIZMODO WHILE DRIVING.

Yeah - I liked them early on because they were weird, but after a little while I realized that most of the humor just rested on them being weird, rather than actually funny.

Clearly SOMEONE has never heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon.

“That blob monster that ate Tasha Yar?”

Jesus fucking Christ, The AV Club - it didn’t eat her - it SMACKED her.

Where are your standards these days, The AV Club? WHERE ARE YOUR STANDARDS?

“Now what’s all this about Isaura keeping her turtle?”

It was many, many years before I learned that “zebra crossing” is actually what crosswalks are called in the UK, and not just a thing Douglas Adams made up as a joke about logic. :/

It wasn’t even close to as fun as actual Eurovision.

It was too respectful to be spoofy and too distant to be loving (there’s surprisingly little actual Eurovision stuff in it). The political angle, which would have been REALLY interesting to watch, is seriously downplayed and then done away with quickly and easily.…

I didn’t love too many movies more than “Batman” when it came out in ‘89, when I was a pretty damn callow 17-18 year old.

Watching it ages later? Yeah, it’s clunky as hell, but it still works because Tim Burton of that period was so damn good at letting us into his weird worlds, and he was able to surround himself with…

It’s not just superhero stuff - virtually every action/adventure movie since the 70s has killed the villain.

When I actually saw the original “Cape Fear” around 1995 or so, I was frankly amazed that it didn’t happen in that.

The trope has been discussed - it may boil down to increased distrust of the law enforcement…

“A-a-a-and... we’ll have ‘Doctor Who’! Sure, the new season won’t air for three years, but...”

... and that’s why I hate the world.