![]() One does not go to a Michael Bay movie for its philosophical underpinnings. We filled up the 35th Anniversary event screenings with our T-shirted selves in 2021, remembering that, in fact, we do have The Touch. Hotrod snaps back, “I have nothing but contempt for this court!” – 1986’s Transformers is a movie we always come back to. Loaded with some of the hardest dialogue ever to be in a kid’s movie – “You’ll be held in contempt of this court!” sneers the Quintesson. It certainly doesn’t honor the fact that we continue to cry so hard over Optimus Prime that, decades later, we get a little huffy whenever a new cartoon or reboot doesn’t immediately call Peter Cullen down to the recording studio. Time’s been kind to the OG war for Cybertron, and Rotten Tomatoes’ score is finally beginning to reflect our nostalgia for a Gen X kid’s first traumatizing theater experience. Empire Records, you’re there for all of us that ever worked an on-call shift at a Sam Goody or Suncoast. Sometimes, guys, it’s about remembering things the way we wanted them to be. Instead, they fixated, seemingly, on the way it didn’t replicate the ‘90s experience for them. At 31%, there was no nostalgia or charm found by the reviewers. Including a cottage industry of Britbox-style miniseries, where some future star is running her coffee shop slash vinyl record store, waiting for her Kurt Cobain-styled Heathcliff to arrive.Īnyway, critics hated Empire Records the way we hate finding spiders on my sideview mirror. In 100 years, this aggressively grunge-era flick will be regarded the way we cherish Victorian period dramas now. The staff of Empire Records is loaded with familiar ‘90s That Guys, from Liv Tyler to Ethan Embry. ![]() Empire RecordsĪpril 8th is Rex Manning Day in our household, and probably yours too. ![]() ![]() The only problem is, in space, Hell is everywhere. We cheer every single time Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne) gets an eyeful of a horrifying apocalyptic log, and bluntly says, “We’re leaving.” That’s a man who knows how to survive a horror movie. ![]()
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