An easy trick for remembering: "arable" and "animal" both start with an "a," and "pastoral" and "plant" both start with a "p." Then you switch them up and Bob's your uncle.

I AM THE HAGUE!

Like many people in my age group, I grew up on the Rocky sequels and didn't get around to seeing the original until much later; it remains one of my favorite movies. And the first two Karate Kid movies will always stop me in my tracks if I stumble on to them. RIP and thank you Mr Avildsen.

Which reminds me, this is also the movie that prompted one of my all-time favorite Roger Ebert beatdowns:

To paraphrase another wise man from 90s Action Cinema, in any other year, Steven Seagal and Mike Tyson costarring in a movie might seem strange.

Crazy, innit?

Which reminds me: Gustav Holst's "Planets" suite ends with a choir that fades out into silence at the end of the last movement. For live performances, the choir is supposed to be set up in a separate room, and someone is instructed to slowly close the door until the main hall is silent.

Yes. I also can't believe I got this far into the comments and nobody has mentioned that Are You Experienced also came out in 1967.

Half Past Dead, which came out in 2002 and was somehow a further step down in quality. It also put a hard stop to Seagal's movies getting theatrical releases (Machete excepted, but that's a different story), so at least it did some good.

I will go to bat for Damn Yankees being not half-bad (and for the much-maligned "High Enough" being actually a terrific song), but that wasn't really Nugent's band.

Remember him? I'm shocked that he's not part of Trump's cabinet (yet).

Oh god, don't get me started on why we're not halfway through the Master and Commander film series, either.

And yet, Walken interviewing Jones would be Must See TV.

Seagal wasn't in Cradle 2 The Grave, but he was in Exit Wounds two years before. It was also directed by the same guy and was pretty much the same movie. In 2003, though, Seagal put out 3 DTV movies, each one worse than the last.

I'm contractually obligated to say this any time an article references The Rundown, but I still can't believe it didn't spawn a franchise. In a better world, we'd be up to The Rundown IV by now.

Yeah, I can't help feeling that Tarantino only included that scene because he liked Michael Parks' performance so much that he couldn't bear to cut it. Actually, I feel like there are scenes in most of his movies that make the final cut for similar reasons, and I'd love to see what would happen if one of his movies…

It's definitely worth seeing. Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, nice locations, a whole lot of badassed knife-fighting, and William Friedkin doing his damnedest to gloss over the complete lack of a story.

Today I realized that Buck was played by the same guy who played Uncle Jack on Breaking Bad.

I enjoyed the original three Bourne movies (and haven't seen the latter two), but if you played me random scenes from any of them, I don't think I could tell you which of the movies they came from.

I read somewhere that Tarantino toyed with the idea of dubbing Pai Mei himself, badly. I don't know if it would have worked (it would undercut the most dignified character in the story, but it also would have been funny), but I'd love to see this done up as a bonus feature on the Criterion Collection DVD.