This was my intro to video games at the tender age of 40. it was the drug that led to harder stuff like Halo, Half-Life, Medal of Honor, Battlefield 1942, Call of Duty and so on. I look back on it fondly as the "poker night" of my middle-aged life. Hours of chips and beer and screaming profanities. What a blast.
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The only thing I know about Dr. Who was that in the 1970s, they found a Harpo Marx look-alike to play the Dr., but he could talk because he had a magic striped scarf, and the world was made of cardboard.

Well, there goes the possibility of having giant Greek god Apollo stopping the ship and falling in love with a yeoman.

Let him keep his moustache, but he should look like this:
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So many good roles, but all the news headlines say "Home Alone star…" Want he in that film for maybe 5 minutes?

He was a bit of a monster - known for firing musicians mid-concert. I saw him live in the late 70s, and he ended one his songs and shot a look at one of his horn players and said "You're fired - just kidding." The look of shock on that guy's face, and his nervous laugh after was pretty awkward.

Oh my god, AV Club! Buddy Rich! You have someone on staff that listens to jazz! Did you know that about him before you hired him, and are you going to keep him now?
Ok, sarcasm aside, this list would be way longer if you had jazz or fusion or prog rock in your listening polls, where guitar often takes a back seat to…

Also, he only released 10 films. That's baby steps compared to the greats like John Ford (made over 100 movies), Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Powell and Pressberger, Alfred Hitchcock, the Cohen Brothers, Martin Scorcese… We've had over 100 years of brilliant directors, and somehow there's been a cultural amnesia about…

What if I say I like some of his films and not others? It's not like I'm a terrorist if I don't like The Dark Knight Returns.

How to pronounce China like Trump: take the word hyena, add a C - "Chyena" "CHYEENA!"

So, are all trailers now going to have brief trailers at the beginning of the trailer, and will this lead to 1-second pre-trailer-trailer frames, leading up to a mini-trailer, followed by the teaser, then the trailer? I need to lie down…

Wow, that photo. It looks like he's wearing a self-illuminating wig, probably grows brighter everytime he lies.

That's why you need to hire older writers at the AV Club (he said smugly). I saw Talking Heads during their big suit phase. Also saw David Bowie, Pink Floyd - the infamous disastrous concert that inspired The Wall, Stevie Ray Vaughn, the Bee Gees pre-disco era, The Police, Tower of Power, Weather Report at their peak…

DBZ?

I look forward to a time when action movies no longer need to end with 20-minute boss fights. It's at the point where you can just fast forward past them to see if last 2 minutes add anything new.

My oldest memory of Star Wars was less than a year before it opened. I picked up a British film magazine, and it had a small article about an upcoming science fiction film called "The Star Wars." There were two beautiful Ralph MacQuarrie paintings, and a still of Luke Skywalker in the Millenium Falcon. As a Sci-Fi…

Yeah, I left a bunch off the list. I'm less familiar with Charlie Christian, but the others are there because that all have favourite solos, or playing that I love.

Ok, I'll be that one guy that (brace for it, youngsters) likes jazz. But wait, rocksters, have any of you heard of Jeff Beck? His rendition of "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" on Blow By Blow is killer, and probably my favourite guitar solo.
How about Stevie Ray Vaughn? If you haven't just listen to anything he's done. Really.
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Still one of my favourites.

Ron Cobb's signs and symbols decorating the ship's interior are also superb examples of graphic design that lend credibility to that universe. I used to own his rare book "Colorvisions", which had most of his concept art and designs from Alien, but, stupidly, sold it to a close friend. For me, Giger and Cobb really…