With this in 2017 and the Angry Birds movie next summer, Hollywood clearly has their finger on the pulse of things whose peak popularity was 5-6 years before the release of their movies.

It was so weird when I went back and watched Cloverfield a year or so ago and realized he was Hud the cameraman.

I have one every now and then. As PowerThirteen said, sometimes the mood just strikes you. And fuck you, I still eat mac and cheese sometimes (albeit I don't eat the Kraft boxed stuff - it's pretty easy to just buy some elbow noodles and shredded cheese and do it yourself).

I agree. I like what Ebert said about it:

My favorite tweet of all time was someone saying something like, "Remember in Splash when Daryl Hannah saw a street sign that said Madison and chose that as a name, and it was hilarious because Madison wasn't a name?"

Other pre-Alias movies JJ Abrams is responsible for: Regarding Henry, Gone Fishin', Forever Young, Armageddon, Taking Care of Business.

Casey's got some biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig expectations to live up to, doing another Western after The Assassination of Jesse James.

Right after they discover they're pregnant, Hal puts on the good front of excitement and happiness, then goes out to the car and starts screaming, crying and cursing the world. It's played for laughs, because sitcom, but there was a nice kernel of truth to it.

Given its omnipresence in the late 90's/early 2000's on TBS/USA/TNT, I don't think you're the only one.

Not to spoil anything, but it and Lost in Translation, which came out within a year of each other, both feature a simple concluding moment, played out mostly in silence, where all of the emotions and implications of the story just explode and left me sobbing.

Might as well start a "favorite moments" thread. One of my favorite Hal moments is the episode where he's waiting for the results of a biopsy and thinks he's going to die, and goes into the boy's room to give a heartfelt parent speech while they sleep, not knowing that they've snuck out and he's talking to a balloon.…

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What's weird is that when he first came out, he had the Non-Threatening Boys thing going for him, but once his voice cracked and he grew up, he sounds and acts exactly like every other male pop singer out there: a thinly disguised attempt by record execs to find the next Michael Jackson. Surely he's carried some fans…

John C. Reilly even pointed out his conscious career shift (in song!) at the Oscars a few years ago.

There was a great one in The Butler (sorry, Lee Daniels' The Butler), where a scene begins with Forest Whitaker's counterculture son walking down the street with his girlfriend, and the first line of dialogue is, "I'm not sure how I feel about that Malcolm X."

Same with movies and box office vs. critical reaction. There's no definitive metrics for anything and the vast majority of people enjoy middle of the road stuff. Same as it ever was.

Rewrite the last 20 minutes and I think Pushing Tin is a solid, underrated dramedy.

One thing I found interesting about Angelina's first two directorial efforts is that the acting really wasn't very good. Like, Unbroken's primary antagonist is supposed to be this imposing Japanese POW camp enforcer, and he's played by this guy who looks like a J-POP star, and at no point is it convincing.

COOL STORY BRO: Kid Cudi is in this playing the "non-stereotypical gay best friend" role, and voiced his disappointment at Sundance that all of his gay makeout scenes were cut. So the movie's been on my radar since that little tidbit, but I'm glad to hear it's actually good.

Culkin had a recurring role this year on the first season of Jim Gaffigan's show and man, he looked rough.