I actually really liked the last season (final 30 minutes excluded) I think the writers and actors gave their all knowing it was finally coming to end. (admittedly the finale season is a better binge watch then having to wade through 23 weekly installments) The Mother was absolutely perfect and fit right in. Then they…

I loved the look of the Tales From the Loop. Definitely hit that lost future nostalgia vibe for me. The rpg is a lot of fun as well. I’ve been looking forward to this show for a long time and am glad to see positive reviews for it. I am hoping to binge this with my wife.

I agree with you sentiment that “Quarry” is the beginning of his modern output. It has some classic songs but I wouldn’t call it a classic album. Same with “Ringleader” I saw him on tour for that one and his performance of “Life is a Pigsty” was amazing. I think “Years of Refusal” was the first album that didn’t have…

Well “High Water Mark” is a low bar to clear for his recent output (if you’ll forgive my mixed metaphor)

If I had a time machine I would go back to those early B-52s shows. I can’t think of any other house party that could ever be that fun.

It’s funny because with CDs I would easily skip over songs I did not like. Favorite albums would be reduced 6-8 songs I liked. Okay albums would be 4-6, etc. But with my change to streaming music I find that I listen to full albums a lot more than I did in the CD and Cassette era. I find it easier now to just queue up…

That’s the truth. The whole E.T. and Elliot are dying piece is devastating all around. 

I just can’t quit Morrissey. The Smiths are basically impeccable in my eyes. I love and or like almost all of their songs. (Exceptions being “Meat s Murder” for sound and “Work is a Four Letter Word” for being one of the reasons they broke up) Post-Smiths Morrissey has some true classics as well though they started…

One of my earliest film memories is being terrified of E.T. Spielberg really films the woods with a sense of eeriness and foreboding. I remember looking at the forest in my grandfather’s back yard with fear after that movie.

I know he can get the job, but can he do the job?

This would discount the introduction of Yoda, where he tests Luke b acting like a fool. That part is hilarious.

I don’t watch the “Special Editions” ever if I can help it (thank you DVD with the originals on it) but yeah, that scene is absolutely changed for the worse.

Less reactions means time for more jokes. Which is why you can rewatch those early seasons and say Holy Shit this is just jampacked with funny gags. They might not all land but they are there. 

The Wampa never scared me as a kid, but somehow the probe droid’s octopus like figure and garbled radio communication always frightened me.

Yeah The Black Hole’s ending is grim. The villain’s fate is horrifying.

I still give it a pass because nostalgia, but the movie is basically a bunch of kids yelling over each other in very annoying ways. Which come to think of it is a very realistic portrayal of kids that age.

And to think he left the X-Men franchise to follow Bryan Singer (ugh) to be the bland “Baxter” in Superman Returns. For this he gets a shit send-off in X-Men: The Last Stand. though everything was shit in The Last Stand, so maybe I shouldn’t be so hard on Marsden for dumping that franchise.

Reactions: WTF?!

That’s a good way to describe it. I remember when I first sat down to watch it with my wife and there was geysers of fake blood, and long slo-mo sex scene, I thought what am I getting us into? But we watched the next episode and then the next one and we wound up loving the damn show. It was really rather good camp fun.

This is me finally accepting that I look like The Dean.