Smashing Good Time – My Favorite Car Crashes

I’m not a big Cars fan (or car fan). I like it okay, after watching it 50-plus times with my kids it has kind of grown on me. Either way, Cars 2 is upon us. Now, I could do some Pixar-type list or spy movie list (the new movie is supposedly a spy caper . . . with cars!), but then I thought: eff that, let’s talk about destruction, carnage, and mayhem.

Top Twenty of the Decade #14

Mike: Now put that thing back where it came from or so help me…

14. Monsters, Inc. (2001) – Dir. Pete Docter

For me, Pixar films fall into two categories, there’s Cars and A Bug’s Life, good, solid, but not great, then there’s everything else. Everything else is so good, so funny and so overwhelmingly better than almost anything else out there (especially animated films), that it becomes very hard to quantify.

Shame of a Nation: Brandon’s List

We watch what we want to watch when we want to watch it…

…and sometimes we make bad decisions. Choosing to relish in the simple comfort of an Oscar (1991) instead of challenging your simpleton brain with some Hidden Fortress (1958).

We see references to movies like those on this list throughout our culture. They have embedded themselves as icons and in doing so give you a sense of “I get it,” and you have enough information to throw a pithy remark at your house-warming guests. But, in the end you’re cheating yourself because movies that have sunk so deeply into our collective consciousness, by that very fact, are important. Whether you like it or not, they’ve struck a chord in our world and that makes it matter.