For albums, I mostly agree - although I stick Flick of the Switch in there, too. Flawed in spots, but much better than its reputation. But I’ve stuck with them through the years because they’re great live and even their worst albums have 2-3 great tracks.

A disturbing lack of AC/DC on this list and all the ballots (if only Hyden were still around)!

I’m not sure how good the albums are, but U2's Songs of Innocence (2014) and Songs of Experience (2017) are recent examples.

Yup, that Nightcrawler scene is fantastic!

Felt the same for a LONG time. But back in ‘14 my partner’s dad died and she wanted to play some Floyd at his funeral. He was a huge fan, but she had never really gotten into them. So I spent a week or so spinning through parts of the discography, and Dark Side really hit me hard - probably because of the context, I…

S2 still holds up for me. I’ll agree it has its hokey moments, but it does a pretty amazing job of keeping a bunch of plates spinning all at once without dropping them, all the performers are totally committed, and the train fight scene is still one of my favorite comic-book movie battles. X2 is . . . okay.

Former AV Club writer Emily VanDerWerff has a pretty good thread up on the question:

I’m not a huge fan, but every few years he’s still capable of pulling off something close to great, especially when he sticks to the small scale. Frost/Nixon and Rush are both films I’ll watch again and enjoy. Rob Reiner, on the other hand . . .

Pours one out for Tesshi-e.

Thanks, that’s helpful. I guess I should’ve specified that, if we’re going to get a console, I’m going to want to play some big-boy games, too - Spider-Man, Last of Us, Skyrim, etc. I’ve spent a bit of time playing a couple of the Dragon Age games on a MacBook, and I want to see what that’s like on a big TV (it’s 4k,…

I’m in a similar situation - been playing the odd game here and there on my macbook for the last few years, but haven’t had a console for decades. My son’s nearly ten now and I really like the idea of getting into some games with him. He won’t be doing any online gaming for a while, and I have no interest in it (at…

I’d say The Thin Red Line gets closer to anti-war than SPR, in part because of its confusing, sometimes seemingly pointless, approach to character and narrative. Somebody above said to be able to follow through on Truffaut’s point, you’d need to make a movie about characters you can’t get invested in who all get…

Yup, and if you go back and look at old interviews with SMG’s colleagues during the early seasons, the one thing they all say is how incredibly impressed they were by her work ethic and her efforts to make the show as good as it could be. Granted, a lot of them were pretty new to acting, but even Tony Head talks about…

It’s hard to tell how much it was SMG being jealous of Crawford or vice versa. Pruitt seems to have been of the attitude that Crawford should be getting more notice and credit, and didn’t mind being vocal about it. In an ideal world, he’s probably right, but how many famous stunt people are there? Anonymity kind of…

Familia!

Aww, the first one’s great!

They all have their charm, buth those charms are different depending on the film. For the most part, 1-4 are street-level heist movies with a lot of stuff about friendship, one’s “code,” and the importance of “family” (family of choice rather than origin). With 5 it blows up and the series gets increasingly…

In my early teens I was (and remain) a big AC/DC fan and thought Angus Young was the be-all end-all of rock guitarists. I had a few friends at school who felt the same about Eddie and we used to argue endlessly about it. Thing is, I’d only heard a few of their radio tracks at that point (and some, like “Dance the…

They weren’t a last gasp, though, they were a re-invigoration. If you liked any guitar rock of the ‘80s, ‘90s, or ‘00s, it was most definitely influenced by EVH. Go listen to some of the guitar players who are mourning him - there are guitar sounds on that first VH album that nobody had ever heard, including other…

She really is - from the opening moment when she’s applying for a job in that doctor’s office, she’s able to convey EB’s brass and vulnerability almost simultaneously with every line and every gesture. I could pretty much watch this movie any time and be happy doing so.