Comments by "A.J. Hart" (@cobbler88) on "WatchMojo.com" channel.

  1. True. There are just as many "third wave ska" bands today, producing just as many ska hits. :)
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  2. Yes. Whatever the gays are listening to in the clubs is the latest incarnation of disco.
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  3. In other words, their list of one-hit wonders isn't necessarily made up of one-hit wonders. Pass.
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  4. Seriously? You just HAD to make sure you ran the clip from "John Wick" where they killed the dog? What the hell is wrong with you people?
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  5. Remember, overdoing some of these foods CAN kill you - not WILL kill you. Plus - among those foods featured in the vid - you'll likely never even SEE about half of them them in your lives, and most you wouldn't be eating much of to begin with.
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  6. Gallagher? What, were Emo Philips and Judy Tenuta too current to be on the list?
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  7. Dane Cook is the Nickelback of comedy. Agreed that, for some reason, it just became cool to bag on the guy even though I can't recall anything he's done that really bugged me. I wasn't aware of the joke-stealing allegations. The ones against Mencia have been proven time and again.
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  8. atrapforfools Yep. Tomorrow will be the list of all the directors who only made one movie, but it was memorable. Most of the directors will have actually made dozens of films, but let's ignore that for the purpose of making a list.  
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  9. 11. Anything you see in an overflowing Walmart shopping cart being pushed by someone who intends to pay with an EBT card.
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  10. Thing is, some of these changes actually portray the world in a LESS accurate way.
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  11. They pump out a LOT of vids. There can't possibly be much thought that goes into them. Heck, check out the ones about the best "one-hit wonders." In the intro they admit that the bands may have had more than one hit, but are mainly REMEMBERED for one hit. So, basically, some of their one-hit wonders are not one-hit wonders. But, hey, ya need 10 for a list, right?
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  12. This list can NOT be complete without "Hooked on a Feeling." It's almost like it was written as a movie anthem and insists that you pretend to like it. Hollow crap.
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  13. kuroniro1 Dalton should have been a great Bond, but he came along at a bad time, plus he managed to go an entire film without getting laid. You can't be a good Bond and not get laid.
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  14. So we'll exclude A-ha from being "rock," but give a pass to The Doors and The Cure? No.
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  15. IDK. People really into "criminal" back then also generally had an Olson Twins "countdown to 18" calendar. :)
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  16. Because the voting is HEAVILY American. And the irony is that "mainstream alt" acts will be rewarded based on air play/sales in the U.S. Tears for Fears and REM were much bigger in the U.S. than The Smiths ever were, particularly REM. Hell, Morrissey as a solo act might have actually been bigger during the "Your Arsenal" days than the high point of Smiths U.S. success. If you want it to lean more UK, then more votes have to come from UK.
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  17.  @anthonysaunders345  I was fairly into keeping up with things for awhile, but with age that passion tends to mellow. We CAN chase things down but I don't really have the initiative now. At best I'll maybe check the end-of-year Billboard alt-style chart, click samples and see what might be worth checking out. But I will always have an ear open, and will continue to see the Pixies every year they tour even though they seemed to be just going through the motions when opening for Weezer (or should I say, the Weezer cover version tour) earlier this year. Yes, anyone can get discovered now. Whether parlaying that into being able to make a soft living as a musician is any easier might be a trickier question. Online track sales give an artist a microscopic portion of the proceeds. In December, Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas" broke the Spotify single-day streaming record with 11 million listens. Carey made, at most, $92,400 from that. That's if it was top rate. The low rate is about 1/14 of that, I believe. If she was somewhere in the middle ... So, we're left with artists managing to get themselves discovered via social media, then recording an album. But people aren't really buying albums anymore. All young people from about 1997 to the present day have lived their lives as a la carte listeners. Few will ever experience the full-album narrative of Styx' "Kilroy Was Here." :) Now you have to tour. You might be "YouTube famous" but that doesn't mean the real world knows who the hell you are. Take "Captain Marvel's" release. If you were living on YT, you'd swear there was a huge controversy surrounding the movie being agenda-driven and Brie Larson being a rotten bitch. This grand conspiracy included Rotten Tomatoes (rightly) changing its ratings, removing some things, etc. But if I asked a normal person what they'd heard about the movie, they usually said, "Nothing." I can't really say how things will proceed. I imagine at least in the short term it's still going to be all about building a brand as the rest of us are left to hope that this continues to produce enough Lady Gagas with genuine talent and that the stray Adele will somehow still slip through. But maybe some enterprising person will develop a curated, YT-like platform that makes it easier to connect artists and fans, allowing enough of a genuine following to develop that makes touring a possibility, then things blossom from there. The more things seem to change, the more certain realities seem to stay the same. You still usually will need to work your ass off at the bottom before becoming in any way successful. The rest will just have to aspire to someday being the next Rebecca Black or Alison Gold.
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  18. Hell, EVERYONE's going to like a list when you put everyone on the damn list.
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  19. Yeah. I'd say only maybe half of these could be called "awesome." But we each have our own kink.
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  20.  @katrinebumaltao7044  I'll stand by the "no soul" comment. Most Americans would recognize this as mostly just rehashed U.S. boy band-style material from more than a decade ago with the usual varying degrees of choreography and lack of anyone who can actually play a musical instrument. It's not the only genre that gets treated that way, by the way. In the U.S., a lack of instruments pretty much immediately puts a genre in the "lacking soul" box, whether it's modern dance music or 80s New Wave. Other countries likely have a different take on that. It's actually at a point where I'd say K-pop IS a return. It's just a return of something that was popularized elsewhere decades ago, with a K spin on it. And I'm sure it will come around again, maybe out of the U.S. or some other flavor-of-the-month country. That's not to speak poorly of any particular country. It's just that most countries don't sustain a long-term influence on pop culture the way the U.S. does. :) Take care.
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  21. +Eyal Dagash Also, Geena Davis was an exchange student in Sweden. That likely explains that the one other language she's "fluent" in is Swedish.
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  22. Juda Martinez And, let's be honest, Bruce Wayne is almost always an incredibly boring character that it doesn't take particularly great range to pull off. 
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  23. richard martinez It would be nice if he eventually went back and did a few big shows, but he's producing movies now, and he's getting a little up there in age to be doing the same kind of material he did in the past. I'm not sure anyone's going to buy a more "sophisticated" sort of observational comedy they like from older comedians. 
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  24. spiderleenie I've thought about this a bit. When Reeve was cast as Superman it was a different time. There were no competing hero franchises and there hadn't really been a serious effort at putting a big comic-book icon on the big screen for some time. Superman - even though Reeves'  and later versions were shaded a little in sequels - is just generally too boring of a character today. The origin story is clean, he doesn't have the moral dilemmas most heros allow themselves to have - and he's just not physically as vulnerable as the others. All that adds up to something fairly boring. Now all heroes have ever-changing back stories, brood half the time, and are hyper-human with their vulnerabilities. Marvel did a decent job of taking some of the Superman out of Captain America, but if it weren't for the origin movie and fish-out-of-water stuff as part of an ensemble, he's not really the most interesting either. The clean-cut, morally certain hero is what we need at times, like when Reeve put on the cape. But these days I'm not sure it's really what people want, and probably partly explains why the last couple of Superman/men haven't been that successful despite Routh actually giving a fairly acclaimed performance. As ridiculous as Batman is, considering that pretty much almost anyone capable of changing his voice can play him, Superman is just ... meh.
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  25. Try Bill Burr. He has 3 specials on NF. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
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  26. I actually caught that one. While I think it may slightly minimize the impact of long-term steroid use on the body, it did bring up things that are not part of the popular narrative, such as the fact that most of the side-effects most closely identified with steroid use reverse themselves after you stop using steroids.
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  27. Based on the comments, Amy Schumer's clock just struck 14:59.
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  28. GutznMetal Not back then. Then he was pretty much just known for "Moonlighting," which didn't really qualify as a romcom like you find in movies.
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  29. I guess I can more or less agree, with the exceptions of J-Lo, Shakira, Megan Fox, and Belucci.
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  30. +Drinko76 Of course, Lundgren is European and they almost all know multiple languages. His academic credentials stand out, though. Early in the list, the first celebs they mentioned didn't really have superior resumes other than the schools they were attending. I also noticed they tended to get liberal arts degrees. Not that David Duchovny's English lit degrees from Princeton and Yale are hard science, but they should at least earn him honorable mention if Cindy Crawford being a valedictorian and dropping out of Northwestern after one quarter do.
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  31. Should it really count as "short-lived" when the reason the band ended is because the lead singer died? I guess I think the list should be more of bands that streaked brightly across the sky, then disappeared - not those that were forced into oblivion.Just my view, though.
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  32. I grant that if they are including Gallagher, they should be including Dice, even though I'd leave both off because they're so out-dated although the latter has the TV show now.
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  33. ***** At this point I will only write that if a person believes that Maya Angelou writes good poetry, then yes, this is poetry. Of course, if you're educated in poetry ...
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  34. Rachie doodle Not true! Unlike Timothy Dalton, I believe Daniel Craig has managed to get laid in every Bond film. 
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  35. I think about half of this list is the same as the "Annoyingly Catchy Songs" list.
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  36. Julian `Big Anonymus` Rodriguez Yes. And I don't believe that any dispassionate evaluation would have the Doors sound being any more rock than your average 80s pop band.
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  37. The Dixie Chicks? Hell, sounded too much like The Corrs to me. Not nearly country enough for me, but it's obviously up for interpretation.
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  38. Exactly! Because the band ELIAS likes does not fall within the parameters specific to PATRICK, INXS cannot possibly be considered an alt band, regardless of the band having its own sound throughout it's career and the fact that its very early stuff sounds as empty and sterile as early Cure and Banshees. I wonder if it qualifies as irony that the alt people go all "no true Scotsman" at the drop of a hat.
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  39. K-Pop is like any other purveyor of terror, though. If you kill it, you run the risk of it being replaced by something even worse.
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  40. "To fill up our list of the cheesiest one-hit wonders, we're going to include songs from acts that had more than one hit, songs that weren't necessarily cheesy and songs that you've never even heard." Another bang-up job.
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  41. I was working in the media market where the "Making a Murderer" stuff went down. Half-truths and omissions of the "docu"-series aside, that guy was a creepy bastard and the evidence overwhelmingly pointed to his guilt.
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  42. Not quite. But a lot of those front men died. Plus there's only so long you can cry about how shitty your life is while sounding constipated.
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  43.  @D4R34LGM0N3Y  History would demonstrate otherwise. There have been times where the overwhelming majority of music played sounded the same. But the people doing it and the people listening to it kind of age themselves out of it and it disappears. Eventually people just need change.
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  44. Smashing Pumpkins debut album didn't come out until the 90s. Marcy Playground didn't release a studio album until 1997. I assume you'd include N'SYNC and Lady Gaga on your alt-80s list as well?
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  45. Anyone get the idea that this is yet another Mojo vid in which someone had an idea, then had absolutely no idea how to put the list together? For most of the songs they just picked catchy popular songs that are fairly indistinguishable from most others that those bands did, and it seems possible that they included "Cat Scratch Fever" solely to include the juvenile line at the end about how forgettable he is.
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  46. 10) Seriously? People still care whether "Saving Private Ryan" didn't take the Oscar? I don't think so. 9) "Twilight" is fun. No one EVER thought it was art or included stellar performances. 7) M. Night's received "backlash" because he's done a lot of crappy movies. It's nothing personal. 6) Again, no one is harboring a grudge that "Forest Gump" won Best Picture. It was a strong movie in a strong field, unlike No. 10. If anyone wants to hate on it, maybe it should be because a "normal" woman had sex with a mentally defective man. If the genders were reversed, that film would never have been made. 5) No one thought the "Transformers" movies were stellar to begin with. 2) Again, no one thought "Titanic" was an artistic achievement. Even at the time, it was joked that it featured the best writing from "The Young and the Restless." 1) "Avatar" was a very pretty movie utilizing great visual technology that beat you over the head with its politics. It was never advertised as anything else. I've yet to hear anyone say they changed their mind about liking this movie.
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  47. Embarrassingly enough, I must watch Beer Fest and Beer League at least 4-5 times a year.Don't get me wrong. I like to pretend I'm smarter than everyone else just as much as the next guy, but I won't piss away my time rewatching Wes Anderson movies just to do that.
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  48. I'd say WAS better. We like to say that about bands/acts with which we grew up, but no one's wanted anything new from U2 for about 15-20 years, and we stopped listening to Prince and Madonna about a quarter of a century ago for a reason. That being said, at least most of these acts could play instruments. A low threshold rarely passed today.
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  49. Pauley Shore: That act was only going to last just so long to begin with. Bio-Dome merely roughly coincided with that. Haley Joe Osment: He got older and - Oscar nomination aside - when that happens people start caring that you're not much of an actor. It happens. Roberto Begnini: He didn't HAVE a big career - at least in the U.S. "Life Is Beautiful" wasn't going to be the first in a long line of foreign-language successes for Begnini here. J-Lo: She was at the tail end of the big acting experiment with her at the height of her celebrity. Similarly to Pauley Shore, her acting talent was only going to give her so much lasting power. Travolta: Twenty years ago this video would have had him disappearing after "Staying Alive." How did that work out? Moore and Connery choose bad projects. There's only so much room at the top at any given time. Some - especially Moore - didn't accept that. Nothing wrong with taking some meaty supporting roles to launch a comeback a la Travolta and ... Connery. Berry has been hit or miss her entire career when it came to choosing projects. I wouldn't say her career is dead. I'd say it's just at the low end of the see-saw again.
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  50. I'll grant them "One Sweet Day" and "Wild Horses" (when sung right by the right act), but the rest of those fall far short for me, especially the ones that were obviously, specifically written to try to elicit tears. Lookin' at you "Everybody Hurts" and "Tears in Heaven."
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