Man, this is why I occasionally love comment sections.

LOL. Okay, I had to respond. I had all these punk friends in college, and I made the *profound* mistake of admitting I like the Beach Boys. My point was that in “Summer Days” you could find most of the preliminary structure of punk songs, and that in “Pet Sounds” you could find the profound alienation that informs the…

Agreed. It kind of bugs me, because people my age *hate* Zappa. And they’re not wrong! The mid ‘70s stuff through the rest of his career is indigestible at best. But man, “Uncle Meat” through “The Grand Wazoo” is so, so great. And it’s so, so hard to convince anyone...

You take out that “small doses” part, and I’m on board. I know it’s cliched, but “Shiny Beast” on acid was one of the most profound musical experiences of my life.

Zappa gave me “Waka/Jawaka,” arguably one of the greatest fusion albums of all time, next to the contemporary contributions of Herbie Hancock and Jeff Beck (“Man Child” and “Wired,” respectively). I also find “The Grand Wazoo” interesting, and, I mean, “Hot Rats” has Captain fuckin’ Beefheart scatting on one of its…

Fuck yeah, an Interstate ‘76 reference.

Post-”Raiders” Spielberg. I’d give him “Poltergeist” too, but ‘technically’ it was directed by a coke-fueled Tobe Hooper. And now that I think of it, the last ten minutes of “Poltergeist” are so silly it probably downshifts to a B+, anyway.

The most entertainment I ever got out of “House” was witnessing how much it pissed off my neurologist father.

“The Inner Light,” certainly. I’d also nominate “Cause and Effect” and, to a lesser degree, “Remember Me” and “The Nth Degree.” There were also some excellent DS9 episodes, but I’m not familiar enough to remember the names.

Manhunter is a solid A, and the director’s cut is A+. Otherwise I agree.

Milo...? Wasn’t that some sort of chocolate powder mix back in the ‘80s or something?

Keyser Soze?

Well, not necessarily. We occasionally get exceptions, if rarely. As a film critic in the ‘90s, I was particularly struck by “Event Horizon.” Laurence Fishburne is the hero who literally saves the entire universe, and though Richard T. Jones plays a somewhat stereotypic goofy black guy comic relief, he’s also the only…

Outrage! It is unconscionable to write this article without at least mentioning “Return of the Killer Tomatoes.”

Welp, I literally just finished moving my last computer from Windows 10 to Ubuntu an hour ago. For the first time, I give fuck all what Microsoft has to say.

This is such a fantastic comment. Words to live by.

Agreed, but if you ever get a chance to see a 70mm blowup print of Akira in a big revival theater — it’s worth it.

The second Patlabor is legit brilliant.

Here I was, all hyped to go on a righteous rant about how no one ever acknowledges “Mind Game” as one of the best movies ever made, and then you ruin everything by listing it.

Word to the wise: It’s a cool game, but it’s no Dark Souls. It wears its influences on its sleeve, but it just doesn’t quite get there. An interesting game, but without the magisterial execution, aesthetics, and philosophy of a proper Souls game, it’s merely something to do but vaguely disappointing.