Schtick is a little too ethnic for Turner but I assure you, on my word as a gentleman, this is no balderdash or folderol.

As an avid reality TV viewer: Absolutely not. Reality TV relies on an element of human unpredictability you could never fake, despite all the other artifice.

I mean, okay, but if you honestly think Disney, DISNEY, built a hotel with no fire escapes, you’re too dumb to even talk to. You know that they have inspectors, right? And not having a fire exit would be just about the most stunningly obviously safety shortcut in the world that would literally never come to pass. You…

This is the greatest movie ever made.

I’ll gladly go to bat for Garfield and Friends. Funny, clever and lightyears ahead of the “barely disguised toy commercial” and “All your parents’ favorites from the 60's, but now they’re kids!” field that dominated the TV cartoon landscape when it originally premiered.

If I was inventing a thing that needed a voice, and the person who had that voice turned down my offer to pay her...I would then use a voice that sounded NOTHING like the person who turned me down. But that’s me, I don’t like to get sued.

Car companies are already doing this though. Ferrari has done it for years.

This is what happens when no one cares about the IP. Garfield is great not when you service his most basic and well-known character aspects, but when he’s allowed to be toxic and cynical, yet relatable and thoughtful. He is a low consequences bully who will steal food, mail a kitten he finds annoying to Abu Dhabi,…

This is not ever going to happen.

I used to think that these kids got bullied too much in school, but more and more I’m of the believe they didn’t get bullied enough. 

Fair.

Unbelievably fucked up for the tone of this article to be “well, he’s worked for Johnny Knoxville and Eric Andre, he should expect to be physically assaulted at random times.”

I liked the Darth Maul bit.

I don’t get how something as anodyne as this article - whose premise is that Episode I is extremely George Lucas, which I thought we all agreed on - could be construed as rage bait. I really don’t get how people can still be rage-baited with Episode I after 25 years. That’s enough time for a human to go from nothing…

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I appreciate that even in defending them he states that the dialogue is clunky and the direction non-existent. 

I love reading ABOUT it, it’s such a fascinating fucking mess. Watching it still bores me to tears.

The big difference for me is that Phantom Menace really dumbed tings down and leaned into the kiddie aspect, while The Motion Picture went the other direction and was much more cerebral than the show ever was.

If this is bait, it’s nigh-irresistible

As a child growing up a Star Wars geek, as an adult I wanted the prequels to be The Godfather quality cinema. They were not and I was one of the dissapointed shouters. Years later I rewatched the prequel trilogy with my self created low expectations and enjoyed them immensely.