Dark City was the first I listened to multiple times, as a) it's damned fun and b) at the end you guys commented one could listen to it without watching the film as very little related to what was on screen, thus starting me off on that path. It's still a favorite. As for others... looking at the list, it tends to be those where at least one of you is strongly against the film. Spiderman, Ghostbusters 2, Transformers 2... those I might listen to at work or while on my evening walk. If I like the film and you trash it, like Avatar, it won't go into heavy rotation The original Star Wars is probably a favorite, though.

Coming at this movie for the first time as an adult might be some of the problem. As a teen, I thought it was great. As an adult, it may require putting myself back into that mindset. I'll have to re-watch it. Labyrinth, though, has the major problem of being a response to Dark Crystal. THAT is the direction Henson wanted to go in, and you can sense him pulling back this time and trying to make something audiences would accept more. "Ok, we have a teen girl, a rock star... how dark can I still make it and have the sucker make a profit?"

Or every Star Trek book more likely Gundam is one exploited cash cow (I remember when it was a finished idea, three tv series and a final movie, before they started doing side stories and alt universes)

Coming in late, with so much good discussion already here

My take on magic beans is that in part they set the limits of your story. Events can flow naturally once you accept that bean as a given, but nothing can contradict it. In Ghostbusters ghosts are real and can be dealt with using science. Ok, fine, run with it. If however you then have someone casting spells in a way that's not just "science" applied differently you've exceeded the self imposed limits and hurt the story. You should have set that up right up front, even if in a subtle way.

I'm reminded of a comment on the radio a few years ago. There's a local band called "Cute is what we aim for", which I think is doing well nationally among the younger female set. The DJ was commenting on how he liked how ironic the band name was, and the producer just gave this depressing sigh and said "No, it's not..."