I didn't see it in a theater, but my mom did and she almost walked out. Catching up with it on cable, boy I can see why.

Reminds me of my experience at the "Beauty and the Beast" remake. Afterwards I told a few fellow audience members (all of whom were around my age) and an usher that the movie was awful, but no one agreed. They all loved it. I was tempted to question/judge them out loud, but no; I'd gone far enough as it was.

It's hard for me to decide on this. Quasi-objectively, the worst movie I've seen in a theater was probably "Mac and Me", but as an 11-year-old I had seen it on video beforehand (and this was a free Christmas-season matinee screening). At this point, I hadn't quite figured out what distinguished good movies from bad…

If any Pixar movie's been virtually forgotten at this point, it's "A Bug's Life". Odd, because it was a hit at the time and is good. Then again, it's sandwiched between two "Toy Story" movies, so…

Didn't do anything major this weekend because I just returned from a trip to Las Vegas (which is why I didn't post last weekend) and was busy typing up trip reports for friends. I got plenty of pop culture in that last weekend alone (two Cirque du Soleil shows, a Christopher Cross concert, two magic shows…), though,…

"Doctor Who" was what came to my mind when I read this question, specifically the Doctor's Fourth and Twelfth incarnations. (Four definitely had the better supporting cast, granted, so he had more to prove.)

It's also probably why the surprisingly good "The Rescuers Down Under" was a box-office disappointment (it opened the same day in November). I do wonder how much better "Edward Scissorhands", the film Fox was positioning as its big holiday release for 1990, might have done at the box-office had this movie not blown…

In the second film, I like that Kevin doesn't have a personal stake in stopping the Sticky Bandits' plot — and he knows he'll endanger himself if he tries to do so — but he knows where the money in the till is supposed to go and feels morally obligated to stop them. That's fairly deep for a kiddie hero in a '90s…

Oh, even in 1992 the implausibility and especially violence of the second movie seemed to shock a lot of critics and moral guardians. My regional newspaper's regular columnist devoted a whole piece to slamming it. In '92, PG-13 wasn't yet a defacto "family" rating (remember the frenzy over how inappropriate for…

Sheesh, compared to what's been covered in some of the other recent Run the Series columns this franchise looks pretty good!

Some other older examples:

"Being There" came out a few months before "Airplane!" but has some similar humor in its credits (on top of the fact that they're run over outtakes of Peter Sellers bungling a monologue that had to be cut) — most of the minor characters have proper names, but since they aren't mentioned in the film itself, character…

I'd argue it's slightly less pointless now because it turned out to be canon in the novels (the character in question was revealed to be institutionalized in Book Five, which came out a few months after this film).

What's frustrating is that missing the ones from the first and third films leaves open a plot hole that isn't for later films in the first case, and the resolution of a major plot thread in the third!

The original Muppet films all have some kind of joke, if not outright scene, at the end of their credits. Probably the funniest was the payoff of "Sesame Street Presents: Follow that Bird", as the Count indeed successfully managed to count all of the end credits (albeit mostly offscreen).

Glad it could be useful.

I think that's the right way to look at the demographics. The "Beauty and the Beast" remake is doing pretty much the same thing, and look how much money it's making.

AMC sometimes shows Stooges shorts in the early mornings, say 6 am or so.

Yeah, it's a coincidence — the novel was written in the early Nineties. This adaptation moves the setting into the present day; had it been wholly faithful, it would have dealt with the first U.S. war in Iraq.

I finished up Year Two of Titan Comics' "Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor" title on Friday with the latest issue. (A year in their parlance is 15 issues.) The first "year" ended with the comic's first four-part storyline, an elaborate "sentient stars conquer Earth" adventure; this one ended with a light, meta…