That $7 find is better than anything I've pulled out of a bargain bin, and I've dug through enough of them to know. My record is filling a whole longbox with Spider-Man comics from the 90s that turned out to be worth maybe eleven dollars total, so I feel your pain on the storage struggle. The warping thing is real though, I stacked five plastic ones in my garage last summer and the bottom one now has a permanent sag that makes my trades look like they're melting. I bought a cheap metal shelf from Target and spread them out two per row, no more soft bottoms, but now I'm out of shelf space and back to using the milk crates for the overflow.

misunderstood masterpiece of sincerity" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I get what Dave's saying, but calling it sincere feels off to me. The director genuinely thought he was making a serious movie, sure, but that doesn't make it sincere, it makes it clueless. It's more like watching someone fail so hard at something they don't understand that it becomes funny in a weird way. The zero sound effects scene is hilarious because it's so cheap, not because it's honest or heartfelt. So yeah, I'll give Dave credit for making me see it differently, but I still think "genius" is a huge stretch.