Yeah, I guess just the most anticipated movie of all time (Phantom Menace) would have added a ton of noise, but I forgot how much other stuff was going on. The Sixth Sense too.

Me too. I have no interest in drawing parallels to any real life politics, but Election almost constantly dazzles and surprises with how sharp and funny it is. It's certainly on my very short list of best comedies of the 90s. I can't remember how much attention it got at the time, but I don't recall it being nearly…

Life's little mysteries.

I don't know what the real life Hughes was like, but it's kind of hard to see any other onscreen portrayal of the man and not think of Terry O'Quinn's interpretation.

I can think of no better candidate for greatest game of all time.

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Dr. Lee just can't win today it seems.

It works on so many levels!

First I've heard of it.

That's exactly what I came into these comments to say. I recall it being pretty awesome as a whippersnapper, but I have been disabused of that notion over the last 25 years by repeatedly hearing that it's a worthless piece of crap. Counterpoint to all the haters: no it's not as good as the original, and I agree that…

I feel dense, but I have to admit that this riff has always gone over my head. Is "last known photo" referring to the fact that the whole movie looks like found footage recovered from the camera of a murder victim?

I think Any Given Sunday is insightful for pro football in the same way that Platoon is for the Vietnam War i.e., not at all, but damn does he find ways to wring operatic (or soap operatic) drama out of it. I would argue that neither are good movies, and I feel like Platoon in particular is ludicrously overrated, but…

I didn't know anything about this when I saw it, but now that I'm reading more about it, I'm kind of amazed at how its monster-of-the-week gimmick seems to have struck a chord with so many people, despite the fact that said gimmick barely sustains a trailer, let alone a short film, let alone let alone an entire movie.

I agree. Skyrim is obviously superior in many ways. (OK, in most ways.) But I'm always disappointed when I go back and am reminded of the lack of variety and general washed-out bleakness of Skyrim compared to Oblivion.

I like them too, and I feel kind of guilty about it. There was one I saw recently about what happens in Los Angeles County to people who die but have nobody to claim their body. (Spoiler: they are eventually cremated and dumped into a mass grave.)

What are you saying? That somebody is a white Christian man and so his views on reconciliation are worthless? The hypocrisy and irony are staggering. You're drawing lines exactly the way Trump does. Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, on close inspection everything is off, but it's interesting that the hair is the most obviously wrong feature, at least to me. I would have thought that's the easiest part to get right in a static photo.

Don't hate me for listening to Chocolate Starfish from start to finish, but its last track, wherein Ben Stiller can't stop giggling about the ridiculousness of the "chainsaw" line, is fairly amusing.

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I don't know about anybody else, but as an impressionable young lad circa 1990, I fell prey to the amazingly pervasive urban legend that hoverboards as depicted in the movie actually exist, but were suppressed because parent's groups thought they were unsafe.