What screams 2001 to me? The current tv cut of any film with a NYC skyline made before that year.

News footage of 9-11. That just says 2001 to me. 

Limp Bizkit. This was probably the group’s peak, and them making the “Rollin” video on top of the World Trade Center really stands out now.

The funhouse claustrophobia of the original is a big part of the movie’s impact. Coupled with the 70s-era film aesthetic, it made it really unique in a way none of the sequels could be.

Turner Classic Movies doesn’t fit today’s concerns?!? How dare...wait. Sorry, didn’t read context clues there.

“Texas Chainsaw  The Republican Party is a muddled franchise, continually re-writing its own backstory and reconfiguring the makeup of its core family of cannibalistic redneck freaks. Even the tone is inconsistent, ricocheting from gritty verisimilitude to over-the-top satire and back again.”

They say Bulgaria is the Texas of Europe...I think.

why does Texas look like Europe?

Do I think it’s inappropriately weighty for a character analogized to a pop songwriter to be characterized in all seriousness as being devoted to “truth, beauty, and love”? I one hundred percent do!

I just don’t get describing A Beautiful Mind as “treacly and forgettable”. For me it was a horror movie and a tragedy, watching such a brilliant mathematician (and author of one of my favorite mathematical insights) in such a struggle. It was also ambiguous and open-ended, in a good way — what has his recovery really…

American Pie 2 should be on this list, it is better than Mulholland Drive.

This list has been weighed, and it has been measured, and it has been found wanting “A Knight’s Tale”.

I guess I see it as kinda the opposite: a movie that’s centrally about the colorful ebullience of the Moulin Rouge, only it’s weighed down by this bleak narrative about Nicole Kidman being menaced by an upper-class rapist and then dying of tuberculosis. A movie about old-timey party people could just be about . . .…

I think Fellowship is the best adaption of the three LotR movies and I still love it so much.

Not what I said. The issue with this particular doomed love affair is that it’s bound up in a dreary faux-deep story about an evil duke, as if pop music were about standing up to the Man in some portentous political way instead of just by being young and heedless.

Anyone making claims about “worst Best Picture” needs to sit through The Broadway Melody (1929), The Great Ziegfeld, and Around the World in 80 Days.

SIL beat out Saving Private Ryan for best picture, and that is frankly unforgivable

Um, I think you mean Blade, 1998.

No.  The editing of Moulin Rouge was not good, anticipating the over-editing of future blockbusters like Transformers.  But the latter one made me faint, too, so I never saw the whole thing.