"Jesus Doesn't Want Me For a Sunbeam" was from 1987, so maybe a more relevant example of a recent cover. Nirvana was down with covers.

Beware of ABKCO!

Yeah I think it qualifies but considering how many of his songs have since become iconic, you can imagine why they skipped it.

It's lines like these (along with making the EPA into the villain) that remind me what a Reagan Era movie Ghostbusters was.

I read Elif Batumen's piece (which is apparently reprinted here) in the London Review of Books a few years back, and it truly is wonderful. It's lengthy, but check it out: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n1…

"Homer did it, Shakespeare did it, Spielberg did it."

How about adding a montage of excited moments from previous Oscar ceremonies when it starts to feel like there won't be any surprises.

I loved that moment of the movie, but I feel like it doesn't really make sense at all outside its context.

For anyone who is the slightest bit intrigued by the story of John Cleves Symmes' effort to enter the hollow earth through the north pole, I highly recommend a book called Banvard's Folly by Paul Collins. It tells the full story of Symmes and hollow earth theorists of the time, along with 12 other accounts of…

You're not the only one, I have mixed feelings about it as well. I find it far too lifeless and dull to join the masterpiece camp, but it's hard to deny the movie looks stunning and some of the techniques he uses to capture the physical mechanics of dreams are pretty brilliant.

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Nah, In the Bedroom is superior to both. The problem with Fellowship is the ending. It's anti-climatic and Sean Bean takes too long to die. Great movie otherwise.

Yeah, the only great movie that has won Best Picture in the last 20 years is No Country for Old Men. You could argue for The Departed, too. But that's it.

No, and that's because it's not.

We all wish you'd leave New York City too.

Yeah this is about right. I was really surprised to hear that it was a Chris Brown track, since pretty much everything I had heard of his I had filed under shitty. Also, since he is a horrible person.

He's a despicable human being, but the prejudice comes in assuming he's a rapper because he's black, then assuming he can't sing because he sings mainstream R&B. And as I said, almost all of his music sucks but I was surprised to learn earlier this year that he has been involved in making at least one good song.

You've been wrong on the merits twice now, I'm being generous by assuming it's due to a specific prejudice rather than a generalized ignorance or lack of taste.

No, he's quite talented vocally (I'm assumeing your scare quotes are meant to imply a lack of talent). Most of his songs suck, but it's not due to a lack of vocal talent on his part (formulaic songwriting and production are not functions of vocal talent). There are some exceptions though - "Fine China" is an…

Yo Phil, I'm really happy for you, Imma a let you finish, but - oh, you're dead. Oh.