Never mind.

Yeah, a hell of a band for that one album back in '92.

The problem with your argument is the movie isn't so bad it's good, it's designed to appear like a film that's so bad it's good. It's schlock by design, a movie for people who have to be told what bad is. There are hundreds of great cult films out there that are made by people who thought they were making art that…

Okay, I think we can retire the joke that these intentionally awful movies are legitimately entertaining. Sure, there are a few stretches of awesomely cheesy humor sprinkled about, but the movie really is the worst kind of shit, a piece of shit that was designed to be a piece of shit. Truly bad movies aren't made by…

One thing he doesn't quite get though is what a happy accident it is that Caddyshack works at all. Any conscious effort to replicate that dynamic is probably doomed to failure. The whole production was kind of ad hoc, and premised on the idea that putting a bunch of funny people together will work like magic with or…

"Daffy Dick? More like Douchey Fuck. Now go get your fucking shinebox!" - Bugsy "Malone" Bunny

One reason I liked this movie a lot the first time I saw it is that it actually reminded me of a frustrating-yet-endearing point-and-click puzzle/adventure game in the Lucas Arts/Sierra mold. I can actually imagine each scene, scenario and problem playing out in cute VGA graphics. It's a great film in its own right,…

Well we all know how people with money can't possibly be the subject of a film. Are infidelity and having a wife in a coma no longer worthy issues for dramatic exploration? Most of the conflicts portrayed in in the movie are pretty universal across wide swaths of society, rich or not.

The Descendants is fine. It's just not paced like a hard-hitting drama or sexed-up comedy.

No, the movie is actually awesome.

Oh I don't think adaptations owe source material anything, and I don't think this film has any obligation to recapture the essence of the book. It's just that when something is presented as a trip back to the book you loved as a kid, you expect it to capture, or at least try to capture, the essence of the book. And it…

Yes, for children. Not for other adults.

This movie is all right, but it fails utterly as a children's film (some smart kids will like it, but most won't). It's more of a psychodrama for nostalgic adults, a film by adults looking back to their own melancholy childhood experiences through the prism of a book we all read. People can talk about the…

King Crimson's Epitaph would be pretty epic. I Talk to the Wind is more pleasant though.

Criterion has always featured small idiosyncratic films, cult favorites and half-forgotten oddities along side indisputable classics. It has never been a canon-building exercise, and as a person who enjoys highly personal and often imperfect films, thank the gods for that.

I was always waiting for Ministry's Tor concept album.

No, LA Takedown is the 80's version of Heat. Thief is of a piece with Heat/LA Takedown though.

Man, even that promotional still is underlit.

Old-school adventure games like Monkey Island or Grim Fandango would make better films than any of these.

Well I'd hate to say it, but some video games would actually have to be dumbed down and cut to shreds to make them into a narrative film. Yeah it's a cumbersome beast of an example, but a game like Planescape Torment has much more interesting ideas and content than most movies have. Adapting it would be like adapting…