To be clear, this wasn't really a 'big deal' or 'controversial.' It was just a stupid thing that we all laughed at for a day. But yeah, it kind of burns to see Pepsi looking at widespread protest of concrete wrongs in our society and their takeaway is "Join the Conversation." I can't defend people being okay with "I'd…

Yeah, it is. If you're wondering what the controversy was, the full 3-minute version really is terrible. It's pretentious and self-indulgent while also being crassly commercial, which I guess would be true of almost any 3-minute commercial, but the thing that's really gross is that they've taken imagery meant to…

I'll check it out!

Maybe you had to be there, but at the time, the scene where the kids are looking at a photo album and one of the photos starts to move was truly terrifying, and seeing that scene replaced by a slide show is a little heartbreaking. Yeah, looking at it now it seems cheesy, but the feeling was real I tells ya

I'm surprised that the interview pre-explaining the corner thing came later. Without that, it the ending wouldn't have been nearly so cool.

1980 is terrible and I'll be the first to admit that. It's the Year of Air Supply, basically. But no year from the 70s can stand up to 1984-1988. I mean, Purple Rain alone…

Look, part of talking about an entire generation of people means generalizing them. I hate to destroy your world, but the fact is that generally speaking, the oldsters were on the wrong side of the fight for Civil Rights. Who do think was fighting against Civil Rights? It's not like racism is equally distributed…

70s movies were a lot more willing to portray moral ambiguity and trust their audiences to be able to process that complexity.

But they were the ones against civil rights.

But they were an impediment to Civil Rights! They were against it! (Well, the white ones, anyway)

Here, listen to this station that alternates 70s and 80s American Top 40 broadcasts, for one full day. As you'll see, you will find yourself enduring the 70s episodes and just wishing for them to end already http://tunein.com/radio/Cla…

You're giving them credit for 'living through' the Civil Rights movement? They were on the wrong side of that one! Come to think of it, they didn't do a great job coping with fears of Communism, either.

Ehhh, not so fast there. If we've learned anything in the last year it's that progress doesn't move steadily in the same direction…race relations in America improved dramatically after the Civil War during the Reconstruction Era, but that was followed by a backlash that's known as the Nadir of American Race Relations,…

Musically, the 80s was the greatest decade, starting around '82. Nobody's going to disagree with that.

Angela was the Boss. Mona was the Blanche.

When can we stop saying "The Greatest Generation"? I mean it's great that they beat Hitler, don't get me wrong. But they were pretty damn racist, and homophobic, and misogynistic. I know, they're a product of their time, but I'm just saying maybe their time wasn't the Greatest.

Well they made it before and now they're making it again. Looks like a remake to me.
If you think they're making it with total disregard for the enduring imagery of the original, you haven't seen the trailer. This is both an adaptation of the novel AND a remake of the TV movie. I'll bet they even work in a fan service…

Firestarter had an ok ending. Still a lousy film, though…
Misery was great throughout.

Most episodes of Prison Break don't have any overlap between the A and B plots, so it's just a question of cutting out the B scenes and making sure the transition looks smooth. So generally I was doing an episode per night, probably just a few hours each (including the half hour it takes to watch the finished product…

Apparently we can add "Sandy Hook denyers" to the list