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

  1. Of course. And why point out the actual enemies when we can use something more generic that actually muddles reality?
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  2. Hell, if we're going to count vanity projects in which a bunch of already established musicians get together for an album or two, might as well put Tommy Shaw and Jack Blades in there. :P
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  3. Yeah. Still waiting for that big Ska wave to hit that we were told had arrived with No Doubt. Maybe I'm just too busy listening to all that big band music that Brian Setzer ushered in.
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  4. My father has been playing drums in bands since the 60s. He always said that it was almost incredibly difficult to duplicate Starr because Ringo is a leftie playing a right-handed set-up, which makes for a slight "offness" to his playing.I think it was the former drummer for the Black Crowes who said (to paraphrase) that Keith Moon was the guy if you were a kid with a kit in your basement, but if you were a musician it was always Ringo.I don't know enough about the instrument to write intelligently about it, but I'll trust those sources since what they offer is subtlety rather than gushing praise.
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  5. ***** With Robin Williams, I always thought he was a good actor in serious roles, so "One Hour Photo" didn't surprise me. What WOULD have surprised me is if Williams had ever actually done anything I thought was funny, on screen or in stand-up. That's just me, though.
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  6. ***** With Robin Williams, I always thought he was a good actor in serious roles, so "One Hour Photo" didn't surprise me. What WOULD have surprised me is if Williams had ever actually done anything I thought was funny, on screen or in stand-up. That's just me, though.
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  7. Juda Martinez What I'm saying is that there's really not enough to the character of Bruce Wayne for anyone to really do much with it. Probably it's because pretty much any acting on impulse or emotion is done wearing the cowl and cape. The only one who these days gets credit for playing a good Wayne seems to be Michael Keaton, and he was criticized at the time for his quirky take on the character.
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  8. +carmaj156 Of course, in Da Vinci's time, there wasn't really specialization. Science was sort of all-encompassing. Of course, people shrug off his ideas that weren't correct, plus all the other things he's credited with that were actually common knowledge at the time, but he was nonetheless a curious person.
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  9. I've never heard "Fancy," "I Knew You Were Trouble," "Call Me Maybe," or most of the honorable mentions until just now. I'm not the key demographic, but if something's supposed to be that pervasive, that shouldn't matter.
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  10. I disagree, to some extent. Outside of media types and critics, have you ever really heard an average person say how much they hate Jeff Dunham? Kind of the same deal for Kathy Griffin, although there are also a lot of people who claim to dislike her because they think they are supposed to.
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  11. +Folarin You might want to re-read it. It certainly shows high interest and drive in what is a fairly limited scope of things, but he's not as draped in degrees as you seem to believe. "He studied" doesn't mean "he earned a degree in."
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  12. "Only Time Will Tell" (Asia), and "Freeze Frame" (J. Geils Band). To be honest, I wouldn't include probably four of the top 10 on this list.
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  13. My brother and I were discussing this lasts weekend. Me being a little older than him, I had to confirm that the albums before "Unforgettable Fire" are almost total shit-boxes. It's not fashionable to say it, but it's hard to really argue. It's okay to say that about a group, even U2. And I don't know that I had any use for them after Zooropa and they completely dove into doing house music.
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  14. I think that comment was to include the first three albums, plus those you mentioned. Having been around at the time I still insist that despite the rock media narrative, those first albums are just not very good.
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  15. Lord Crump I will concede that War is obviously better than the others. I would not say it's universally enjoyed or great, though. It was not really thought of in that light at the time. It's what made U2 darlings back in the day, but had Unforgettable Fire and/or Joshua Tree not been as good as they were, no one today would be talking about what a great album War was.  
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  16. Lord Crump Yes, but U2 fans are U2 fans. I'm talking about music fans in general. I'm a fan of old REM but the hardcore REM fans find value an album or two before the ones I find value in.
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  17. Rock God I would say that their hype was fairly warranted through to maybe Achtung Baby, which to me sort of signified their departure to doing pretty much just dance music and basically jumping the shark. Maybe once you're become too self-important it's impossible to hear people tell you that for the past 20 years your music has only been heard on Apple commercials and at foam parties. 
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  18. Yeah. When "Trainwreck" hit I decided to try to watch her TV show. I just couldn't really get through it. Not everyone's humor is the same, but her stuff just seems like the same 2 or 3 subjects over and over. If people hate Sara Silverman, no way Schumer remains popular. One more "Trainwreck" follow-up and it's curtains.
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  19. Not really a hard-and-fast set of guidelines with this category, was there?
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  20. iamlarryjones jr. Not really sure how that's a response to my post, but okay. 
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  21. iamlarryjones jr. I didn't write anything of the kind. If you're going to respond, please respond to what's actually written, not your interpretation and extrapolation of it. I was pretty straightforward.
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  22. iamlarryjones jr. If you're going to put something in quotes, at least get the friggin' word right. I think we've come about as far as we're going to come in this discussion. Take care. 
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  23. +Raymond Helyar Not sure double majoring in film and psychology at UCLA makes the list. Hell, Duchovny has a bachelors from Princeton and a masters from Yale and apparently isn't as smart as Cindy Crawford, who dropped out of Northwestern after one quarter.
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  24. I think one of the things that gets lost in all these conversations about someone playing Batman is the fact that - as long as you're a certain height and not morbidly obese - ANYONE can play Batman! The role calls for almost nothing when he's Bruce Wayne, and once outfitted he just changes his voice and does the work left over that the stunt doubles don't knock out.
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  25. +rs71 I think the real question is, what kind of party could it possibly be if it was full of people who would break out Royal Tenanbaums DURING it?
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  26. Greatest rock rivalries:1) Beatles vs. Rolling Stones2) The Who vs. Led Zeppelin3) ELO vs. Supertramp4) Tears for Fears vs. Wang Chung5) Milli Vanilli vs. Scritti Politti:oPHonorable mention: CCR vs. John Fogerty
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  27. Mudhoney: The 17th band "responsible for kicking off the Grunge movement of the early 90s." :)
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  28. A bodybuilder will do cardio, but the top guys have to slap an extra hour or two of cardio at VERY slow speeds. They can't really move that fast.
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  29. I was waiting the entire list for Kim Deal. At least fans were knowledgeable enough to get her an honorable mention, but I'd probably put her in the bottom third of this top ten. Most of those other honorable mentions must have been from "critically acclaimed" groups - i.e. groups that no one in the U.S. has heard of but which probably sold 10M albums in UK and Australia. :)
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  30. Kim Deal's the bomb. The Pixies have suffered a lot without her, although there does seem to be a little promise to the album being released this month. I've liked most of the stuff she and her sister, Kelley, have done with Breeders, Amps, and Kelley Deal 6000.That said, without collaborators, she's not the same musician either and has just as much of a tendency to fly off the rails as does Black Francis if left unchecked, in my opinion.She's still my favorite Pixie, though. By a LONG way.
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  31. 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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  32. Listen to almost any interview after an NBA finals game and tell me that those players are being "ironic" in how they speak.
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  33. +James Settle If that's true, I take it you're a grad?
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  34. I think it works best to watch Burr's specials in chronological order as well. The third one is funny on its own but I think it's made better since you can follow him from the first one where he's single, through to the third one where he's basically lost all his hair and has a kid.
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  35. AyVee The Emmys are NOT the television equivalent of the Oscars. There are various other reasons, but the fact that you can win multiple Emmys for the same role pretty much sews that up.
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  36. AyVee The Emmys are NOT the television equivalent of the Oscars. There are various other reasons, but the fact that you can win multiple Emmys for the same role pretty much sews that up.
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  37. Actually it's not. Oscars are generally for a one-off performance, and winning the award multiple times is a strong indication you're a great actor. You can get multiple Emmys for the same role year after year, which often has more to do with attrition (cancelations) and lack of competition within a category. I would be more likely to agree if, once an Emmy is won for a role, that role is no longer eligible. Otherwise I don't give a great deal of credit to someone just because they stayed in their wheelhouse for yet another year.
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  38. AyVee TV shows brag about Emmys because it's the most prestigious award given to television programming. Similarly, the Oscars are the most prestigious award given in film. That does not make them analogous in any other way. See what I did there? I actually stuck to the point and didn't ramble on with irrelevancies. Take care.
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  39. +kubby gaming I do now. I also now know she had to go to rehab for an eating disorder and her pursuits tend to be on the flighty side.
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  40. kubby gaming Meh. Even smart people screw up now and again. :) 
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  41. CCR has/had a smaller fallowing that the bands disqualified at the beginning of the vid?
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  42. You lost me with "stellar cast of SNL alums." NONE of these will be the sort of "classics" that anyone will be watching in a decade who isn't already watching them repeatedly, based on their own merits. Heck, a couple of them weren't seen by anyone in the FIRST place. "Force Awakens" and "Mad Max" don't really count because they're franchise films, and the animated ones will be replaced by later animated ones. Personally, I thought "Mad Max" blew (but I'm not big on the post-apocalyptic genre) and "Force Awakens" was lazy writing.That doesn't mean that these are bad movies. Quite the contrary.
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  43. I can stand them, but they're no more "rock" than The Cure or A-ha (no "Take on Me"?)
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  44. 909955847736 I think it would go 5x platinum because it also included "Break On Through," "The Crystal Ship," "Twentieth Century Fox" and "The End." BUT ... the album could actually be considered 20x platinum. The platinum designation wasn't created until the mid-70s. If "The Doors" is 5x platinum, that likely means it's sold 5M copies since then, and about 15M before that. "Rolling Stone's" opinion about anything hasn't been worth a fart in a windstorm since probably the late 70s, so I probably wouldn't cite it too much as an authoritative source. Let's face it, if U2, REM, Bruce Springsteen or Bob Dylan break wind, "Rolling Stone" would put it in its top 250 singles of all time. :) None of this has to do with the merits of the album, of course, or how "rock" it is. Folks like what they like.
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  45. Very glad that "I Dreamed a Dream" made the cut and was so high up. I agree that normally "One Day More" would have been "the single" from a musical that probably has at least 3 or 4. I think it has the same ability as "Memory" to strike a familiar chord with almost anyone listening to it.
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  46. "Chumbawumba's most successful single to date." As though Chumbawumba's primed to make a comeback any time soon!
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  47. It's a decent song, but I cringe when you get these name-dropping songs. It always seems a little desperate or gimmicky.
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  48. Who told you that? They may be taking marketing info and interpreting it to fit their own purposes, but the public is not casting ballots on this stuff.
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  49. Rob S. Yes. And the sample size is so small that it's ridiculous to even pretend that the result is representative of any level of public consensus. I'm looking at a top 10 list of cheesiest one hit wonders of the 2010's and none of the songs on the list have even 30 votes, pro and con combined. Basically, about the first dozen songs put on the list are likely going to provide us with the final 10 songs. Then we get to methodology. Since they invariably stray from the claimed methodology within the first few selections, is it something they make up after they have the list, or do they make it up beforehand, provide the songs they want to populate the list, then open the floor for voting/amending? Even the juicier lists like "Worst X of All Time" are lucky if more than a few of the options have triple digits in votes. Mojo can certainly do whatever it wants - and it's not like any of these should have any significance in anyone's lives - but they're little more bona fide than a half dozen people sitting at a bar coming up with lists for the same themes. I guess I want them to be more of a reflection of what people as a whole actually think - not what a few dozen registered users think.
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  50. Rob S. Thank you for sharing that anecdote. I wouldn't be so quick to condescend, though, considering that using a sample size of 1 doesn't exactly make the case for something being the norm. Hmmm ... I wonder what THAT sounds like. Take care. 
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