Tonight marks a critical point in my movie collection, no, even my life. In fact, you could say that my life is easily divisible into two distinct parts. Before and after I owned the 1982 milestone in motion picture history: Mazes and Monsters, starring the (back to back!) Academy Award-winning Tom Hanks.

This made-for-television masterpiece tells the cautionary tale of a group of four bright and sociable young college students who are enthralled in playing the fantasy role-playing game "Mazes and Monsters." We can only look on in horror as Robbie Wheeling (Hanks) descends into the depths of madness as a result of his flirtation with the black magicks of board games.

I can assure you that Mazes and Monsters is easily one of the worst movies ever committed to celluloid. But, like Jaws: The Revenge and Ishtar, Mazes and Monsters is something that every movie fanatic really should see...

And I would think that it would be encouraging to anyone trying to become a successful actor. Before Hanks owned the 80s, he was just another dude trying to break into the movie business. Yeah, so he wasn't exactly a no-name actor; he had done Bosom Buddies...

But you get my point. :P