I remember Metal Manics loving their album, but wasn't convinced to buy it. The magazine was wide-ranging phase then.

That's the way I recall it, being disappointed because I already had that song on my (cassette) copy of Purple.

I think I got a discman in 1995. I kept a huge block of foam in the car to set it on, it sorta worked.

He really poses more than acts in this, but it works for the movie.

My buddies and I liked it in high school, but we were metalheads and dorks, so obviously an over-the-top revenge comic book movie was pretty much up our alley. But I remember being shocked that a girl who had like the most mainstream tastes in anything (her favorite album was possibly Garth Brooks' greatest hits or,…

Even if I agreed with Sokudoningyou, which I don't, his argument is invalid because of Ernie Hudson.

Yup. That Monster Magnet song is much more fun than the one they had a minor hit with.

Candy cane, got yer ears on?

I know what you mean about critics not liking the "wrong kind" of comedies, but I'm not sure Tao of Steve is a great example. Granted I saw it, what, 15 years ago, but I remember it playing more like one of the indie not funny like that movies that people are complaining about being on this list.

Beer League is the main one that hasn't been mentioned in comments much. I laughed both for Artie Lange being sorta scrubby and gross like he does and because it played as a great satire of underdog sports movies just by being about beer league softball and still hitting all those beats in a half-assed manner. Also,…

The soundtrack detail is telling to me. The first year film major would have said something about Duffy's camera placement or something kinda technical-ish.

I thought it came out in the 90s, but it was 2002!

Agreed, Cabin in the Woods isn't as funny as Shaun of the Dead, but to me it's playing in the same sandbox and the whole premise of the movie is a funny joke about horror movies and their preoccupations.

Yeah, the best of the Apatow affliated comedies for me are I Love You Man, Superbad and Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Donal Logue was certainly excellent in that, though I don't buy it as some great comedy.

I remember a movie rumors website getting an email from some "tipster" about how the awesome, over-the-top creative genius was going to blow people away when they heard the movie's soundtrack, done by Duffy's band.

I didn't see it until recently and it didn't come off that well. I thought I'd seen these people do these things in a bunch of other movies, so it didn't really hit for me. It's one of those things I see why people love it especially if they saw it in an empty theater in 2000, but it doesn't work for me.

I thought the ending was sorta left open on whether they were going to be together romantically, but was strongly saying that they definitely were gonna get along enough to raise a kid.

That movie at least seemed to invite the audience to delight in the cynicism and indifference to abolitionist principle of Matthew McConaghey's lawyer character while playing Martin Van Buren's bumbling cynicism and Anna Paquin as the preteen queen of Spain for laughs. Its real problem is that it wasn't told from…

I thought it was fine enough. It caught on because it was pretty decent at creating a slightly different mystery, probably for people like me who read very few mysteries. I think I found it charming partly because the narrator was a sad drunk who just wanted to be left alone to drink.