SPOILERS The slaughter of the New Seoul rebels for me. Just a gorgeous, gorgeous sequence.

SPOILERS The slaughter of the New Seoul rebels for me. Just a gorgeous, gorgeous sequence.

Um, have you ever read a Dyess-Nugent review of South Park, or SIIIMMMSSS of Seinfeld.  Everyone loved piling on their complete imbecility, and pointed out they were oversensitive and humorless.

Um, have you ever read a Dyess-Nugent review of South Park, or SIIIMMMSSS of Seinfeld.  Everyone loved piling on their complete imbecility, and pointed out they were oversensitive and humorless.

Is it wrong that just the thought of someone having to break the news to Justin Bieber that professional hitmen wanted to castrate him, well, it's just hilarious?  How would you actually break that news to someone? 

Is it wrong that just the thought of someone having to break the news to Justin Bieber that professional hitmen wanted to castrate him, well, it's just hilarious?  How would you actually break that news to someone? 

It sounds small, but I could never get past the fact that Joaquin Phoenix was about 20 years too old for the part, and looked it.

It sounds small, but I could never get past the fact that Joaquin Phoenix was about 20 years too old for the part, and looked it.

Slash fiction?

Slash fiction?

@avclub-29501df08e5d9ae59e432e4f188d3735:disqus et al., Sure, you're right that analyzing low culture has relevance in a larger sociological sense.  But that's not what this was (or at least seems to be).  This was "Why is Tyler Perry so popular?" not "Why is the state of black entertainment such that Tyler Perry is…

@avclub-29501df08e5d9ae59e432e4f188d3735:disqus et al., Sure, you're right that analyzing low culture has relevance in a larger sociological sense.  But that's not what this was (or at least seems to be).  This was "Why is Tyler Perry so popular?" not "Why is the state of black entertainment such that Tyler Perry is…

"(I speak as a reluctant authority on Mr. Perry's body of work, as I have
spent many a family get-together with his movies or taped stage-plays
on the TV)"

"(I speak as a reluctant authority on Mr. Perry's body of work, as I have
spent many a family get-together with his movies or taped stage-plays
on the TV)"

But your opinion doesn't matter to Perry or his fans.  And it shouldn't.

But your opinion doesn't matter to Perry or his fans.  And it shouldn't.

It isn't a matter of "allowed."  It's a matter that pop culture tends to be transient and to have so little lasting effect as to make an academic conference on such to be of little reward.  No one, fifty years from now, is going to be watching Tyler Perry, or Jersey Shore, or Honey Boo Boo.  People will still be…

It isn't a matter of "allowed."  It's a matter that pop culture tends to be transient and to have so little lasting effect as to make an academic conference on such to be of little reward.  No one, fifty years from now, is going to be watching Tyler Perry, or Jersey Shore, or Honey Boo Boo.  People will still be…

@avclub-3be42d8a3412057f79af152555e39bd4:disqus Me too.  People apparently didn't even discuss a positive reason why Perry might appeal to his audience, other than that they're "hetero-normative" and are too dumb to realize they'll never be middle class.

@avclub-3be42d8a3412057f79af152555e39bd4:disqus Me too.  People apparently didn't even discuss a positive reason why Perry might appeal to his audience, other than that they're "hetero-normative" and are too dumb to realize they'll never be middle class.