Technically you're right, I was using "texting" as shorthand for "constantly using cellphones".

I wouldn't be too surprised if in fifty years Jersey Girl will be the only one to hold up as watchable.

Nerds really don't care about anyone's opinion of Chasing Amy.

In the last decade? Are you aware that Moulin Rouge is a lot older than that? I love Luhrmann, but he's directed exactly one musical. Just going by the last decade, the one who's done most for movie musicals was Kenny Ortega.

I think of the non-romcom episodes of Master Of None, when I hear the term clapter.

I considered myself a fan when I was in my early twenties, but haven't seen a Smith-film in years. I didn't even watch Clerks 2. The world is full of classics and masterpieces I still haven't watched, why should I waste my time on something like this or Tusk?

You can always see that a reviewer doesn't hang around teenagers if he thinks constant texting is an exaggeration. It was parody twenty years ago in Clueless, today it's reality.

The opposite? In what world are casting agents trying to get a hold of Li'l Smith after After Earth?

I actually think Jersey Girl is underrated. It's completely by the numbers, but it does that well.

I guess it's one of those "You had to be there"-movies that didn't age very well. I enjoyed it fifteen years ago and refused to rewatch it ever since.

I don't want to praise Smith, but did it never occur to you that all the praise heaped on his work seldomly extends to Mallrats? It's mostly Clerks, Chasing Amy and Dogma. That's like - hyperbole comparison! - wondering what's good about Hitchcock after only having seen Jamaica Inn.

Well, did it cost any money?

He did that, and it was called Clerks. That was his life experience before he became a star director, and all his new life experiences were completely at odds with the lives of his core audience.

How so? Yes, American Horror Story is a juggernaut, somehow, but it is also the only popular anthology in that genre. Supernatural, Vampire Diaries, Teen Wolf, Grimm, Sleepy Hollow, Penny Dreadful, Bitten, Lost Girl and countless others are still the norm for genre shows right now, and most of them have disappointed…

And Betty White's musical number was fun.

If that was supposed to be set-up, then it didn't work at all for me. Nothing about the bathroom scene or Hey-maybe-Eleven-is-still-around screamed "We can fill eight more episodes with this!"

Yes, but on the other hand Fargo and American Crime. Anthology shows aren't always shit either.

I get you. I'm a tv writer (so I analyze everything I see) and have a cool relationship with my dad, and whenever I watch TV (or movies), I feel like I must be the only one because father issues are the #1 go-to family conflict everywhere, divorced parents or not. Even a groundbreaking show like Buffy fell into that…

Was Bieber already a thing more than five years ago?

Yes, I'm lying. Because it's so important to me what someone who didn't get the ending of A.I. thinks of me.