I don't really rate Short Cuts either(mainly for the butchering of Carver's short stories) but Magnolia absolutely invented the genre as it is today. Whatever you think of it, there's no Crash and Babel without Magnolia. Altman's films were just a bunch of different stories intertwining, Magnolia was the first to have…

I don't really rate Short Cuts either(mainly for the butchering of Carver's short stories) but Magnolia absolutely invented the genre as it is today. Whatever you think of it, there's no Crash and Babel without Magnolia. Altman's films were just a bunch of different stories intertwining, Magnolia was the first to have…

People don't know this, but Ackroyd actually made another sequel to a hit film of his from the 80s without it's main star. My memory's a little fuzzy, but I think it was a huge hit, and everyone thought it was much better than the first.

People don't know this, but Ackroyd actually made another sequel to a hit film of his from the 80s without it's main star. My memory's a little fuzzy, but I think it was a huge hit, and everyone thought it was much better than the first.

Magnolia is the epitome of that kind of bullshit. Paul Thomas Anderson gets a huge underserved pass for that mess because of There Will be Blood.

Magnolia is the epitome of that kind of bullshit. Paul Thomas Anderson gets a huge underserved pass for that mess because of There Will be Blood.

Is there even anything particularly wrong with the way his films look? I don't see many people criticising him as a technical director. Problem is his films are hacky, not that they're badly shot.

Is there even anything particularly wrong with the way his films look? I don't see many people criticising him as a technical director. Problem is his films are hacky, not that they're badly shot.

I never liked the way Bust a Nut: Your Granny's Butt Rises demonised the Occupy Wall Street movement.

I never liked the way Bust a Nut: Your Granny's Butt Rises demonised the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Honestly, a top 5 of just Jimmy Stewart films, would seriously challenge this top 5. It's a Wonderful Life, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and Rear Window over Sunrise, Rules of the Game and Citizen Kane anyday(well, maybe not Kane).

Obviously none of these critics were golfers.

Obviously none of these critics were golfers.

That was a genius humblebrag. See the brag was the entire sentence, and then the humble was putting #humblebrag after it. Some meta next level shit going on there.

That was a genius humblebrag. See the brag was the entire sentence, and then the humble was putting #humblebrag after it. Some meta next level shit going on there.

5 more minutes writing might have helped him improve horrible sentences like this:

5 more minutes writing might have helped him improve horrible sentences like this:

The big spiel the guy who put that episode up on youtube wrote is hilarious.  I can only assume by linking to it the Av Club is endorsing all his opinions .

The big spiel the guy who put that episode up on youtube wrote is hilarious.  I can only assume by linking to it the Av Club is endorsing all his opinions .

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His point was that since there are already a million other places you can go to hear comedians talking about comedy, there's no sense the av club throwing their hat into the ring unless they're gonna bring something new to it, which they're not really. You can disagree, but only a horrible sycophantic…