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I think "Rocky Horror Picture Show" is a pile of crap, but that's not the point. The point is that I'm absolutely amazed at the number of otherwise intelligent people I know who practically wet their pants in excitement over it. Stage or screen, it doesn't matter - they're standing in line in costume with their toast and memorized comebacks. It's inexplicable.

Of course, they also think I'm weird because I'm willing to stand in the men's room line with 110,000 other people at halftime, so maybe I shouldn't throw stones.

It was a great concept with an impressive director and all-star cast. A movie like it might be very difficult to make today. I laughed harder than I’d ever laughed before then when I saw it during its original theatrical release. I still laugh at certain scenes, but not as heartily as I did when I first saw it. I don’t know whether It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World has aged as well as I’d expected.

Not as many "Nyuk Nyuk Nyuks" as I got from my first viewing.

In general, epic pseudo-historical blockbusters are pretty meh.  But Troy was outstanding.  There's so much going on beneath the surface, commentary on the power of myth, the folly of war, the ways that religion can cloud our thinking, the contradiction of glory achieved through killing, the way that truth can be distorted by time and individual perspective, the tragedy of the masses following mindlessly as a small number of powerful individuals lead them to their own destruction, etc etc etc.  I'm not trying to suggest that it's a complete work of genius, but for its genre it is as good as I've ever seen.

Oh, and Achilles' "The Gods envy us" speech makes me shiver every time.

Can't believe nobody's mentioned it: I thought Scarface sucked.

bored me so much that I didn't finish watching it. And I've loved all other Coen bros movies.

"Chronicles of Riddick" is the most underrated sci-fi movie of all time.

"The Last Crusade" is the best Indiana Jones movie.

"Crystal Skull" isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be. LaBeouf sucks, but other than that it's a good (but not great) movie.

Tom Cruise is a good actor that typically picks great movies.

Brad Pitt is a very good actor, that often gets knocked by men because he's a really good looking guy.

"The Bicycle Thief" and "81/2" are not good movies, similar to many Italian movies of the era. More or less, they're just "artistic".

While I like Nolan, he is far from one of the best directors of this generation. He really needs someone other than himself to edit his movies and he needs someone to look over his scripts and correct his awful dialog. Good ideas that are very full of themselves and give of the vibe that that are spectacular ideas. Basically, he has an ability to make people feel smart because he spells out everything in movies.

I wish Mel Gibson would make more movies, because I can separate the person and the man that makes really good movies.

Peter Jackson's "King Kong" was the best "King Kong" (and his best movie)

Tarantino is really overrated. I like his dialog, I like some of his concepts. But he uses the shield of "homage" when in reality he just copies better movies, he really needs an editor, and often times his movies move senselessly rather than having a coherant story arch (for example Inglorious Basterds was two different movies).

While the Star Wars Prequels aren't great, they are underrated. Listen to the dialog of the original Star Wars movies and they have much the same issues. Jar Jar sucked, the second was a little heavy handed, but they aren't bad movies, they just aren't really good (which compared to the first three, makes them seem worse). Also, Ep III was actually a good movie.

People still actually watch movies? Even with the million better options out there? I mean, even Hollywood openly admits that they are throwing garbage out there to see how much money they can squeeze out before the whole business goes kaput.

like Pretty Woman.  Not ashamed to admit it.  That might not be true.

The Waterboy is atrocious, like just about every other Adam Sandler movie.  But I liked Spanglish and also Funny People.

Watched Caddyshack with my son a couple of months ago.  Not as funny as I remembered, other than the Carl Spackler scenes.   Every scene with Rodney Dangerfield and/or Ted Knight is pretty lame.