FWIW, there was an interview with him recently where he called that out as the reporter not accurately representing what he said.

In modern Hollywood, the generic "comedy!!1" poster look seems to be a solid white background, your characters on the poster mugging insufferably, and the title + tagline (usually something horrible) in giant block 3D solid red letters.

That's interesting, because one of my (many, many) criticisms of the rebooted Trek films is that apart from a handful of Trek aliens, every other non-human that shows up in them looks and feels like some kind of generic Star Wars background alien. Once you get past the Vulcans, Romulans, and (briefly) Klingons,…

Well, it *does* lose at least one nacelle, looks to be cut in half (or nearly so) at the neck, followed by shots of it crashing into a mountainous landscape and later shots of Kirk and somebody else coming upon its flaming wreckage on the ground. I don't think it's coming back from that.

Yeah, the whole thing with Elba being buried under prosthetics is weird. He's too charismatic to completely remove his face from things.

Honestly, as a big fan of Rifftrax, the blockbusters aren't even that big a part of it anymore. For every blockbuster riff that gets released, there are ten bizarre b-movies and weird shorts that get put out on VOD. The "why go after blockbusters?" thing hasn't been super relevant for a while now.

I remember thinking that when the trailer for this came out. Everything is so damned orange-and-teal nowadays and I can't unsee it. Remember when movies had more than two colors in them?

Hell yeah, that's extremely true. I'm in music, I'm in two bands, and I've met many, many musicians who have a severe lack of knowledge about the great Beach Boys records due to the perception you refer to, even musicians who make that kind of music .

Ummmmmm…I am well aware of that.

Over the last, what, decade-and-a-half or so, us Beach Boys nerds have been treated to a wealth of stereo remixes on the various re-issues albums (Brian Wilson didn't work in stereo until the Friends album of the late '60s), and they're usually assembled as the same album twice on one release - first in mono, then in…

I am not an especially large Beatles fan (nor an especially large Star Wars fan, really) - I have tons of respect for them, I just haven't really listened to them in ages and they were never a huge part of my life in any of its formative stages. Perhaps the cultural over-saturation just kind of made me avoid really…

One word: Laserblast.

Yeah, the "But This Island Earth is a classic! You can't do that!" refrains always baffled me. Not that TIE is on a level with, like Manos, but it ain't exactly a flawless masterpiece. Even going by the standards of '50s sci-fi, This Island Earth looks goofy compared to something like Forbidden Planet.

It is good to hear that some attention will be paid. The old music department is one of the main things I started coming to the AVC for regularly back in the day. I learned of quite a few bands I really came to enjoy thanks to it. Lately, though, it's been driving me away - when there are only one or two reviews a…

why is lip sync battling still a thing

Most of the time, we're only getting one or two reviews of new albums each week, it feels like. And 95% of the time they're mainstream pop albums.

That's my thing. I get that the music department's been taken over by poptimists and clickbait revenue needs, but if they were still covering a larger list of releases spanning from the manufactured Top 40 stuff to less mainstream things, I wouldn't mind nearly as much. The signal-to-noise ratio has just gotten…

The poptimist pendulum has swung way too far in that direction. The world is just think-pieces about Top 40 manufactured stars. It's bizarre and I don't care for it.

one day our pop stars will be all holographic and all our music sites will be written by algorithms generating ten-page think pieces about how they are making real art and everything will be even more terrible than now when we're only 85% of the way there

Is that "dumb hatesong" as in "the entire feature known as hatesong is, on the whole, terrible?" If so, I agree.