Um… given the type of people who were taken in, I have to salute Ja Rule for this one. Good job man, good job.

Whoa, I had never heard about this! What's the skinny on what makes him awful?
EDIT: I literally know nothing about him except that he might have been Robin Hood - Sorry for not doing my own research.
SECOND EDIT: Wow. The Spanish Civil War (he used the war as a pretext to fake his death to publicize a movie) thing…

WOW. I thought they were sorta universally at least liked.

Jason Statham and Spy. Normally, he's an annoying walking bag of meat who inexplicably has a film career. In Spy, he's so wonderfully self-effacing that it's like a great payoff to a long setup.

Oh, you mean SideSHOW Bob.

For sure. That song is so great, I'm surprised it hasn't made it's way into the cover circuit. Wiser Time and Nonfiction too.

Agreed. Zach and Miri is actually pretty okay. Even Jay and Silent Bob is ok.

I would agree to that.

I feel you - but man, there are better ways to kill yourself!

Yes. Also Amorica is a treasure itself. It's weird to admit but I would have said they were a GREAT band in 1995, maybe the best US rock band (non indie) at that time.

Only problem is, IMO, he made three very watchable movies until hitting that wall.

Fixed.

In other news, Jeff Sessions is going to pull consent decrees with police departments and municipalities across the nation. https://www.nytimes.com/201…

No, it was funnier with my edit. We're a TEAM!

Wait, are you saying that Utah (and Idaho) is full of Napoleons?

I have several LDS friends, and they're huge advocates of Napoleon Dynamite and Jared Hess. My working theory - they're such fundamentally nice people that it wouldn't occur to them to laugh out of mockery.

Wait, what ? I thought rural people would hate it more! It seems phony, but I know the rural midwest, not the Utah/Idaho Jello belt.

It's weird, but yeah - if you swap Ohio for the South (Georgia?), they're pretty close. Except I don't think Kenny has the sad/triumphant backstory. He was kind of a prick in his heyday, right?

That makes sense - I saw the movie having only seen BBT when my friend was on it (she's a love interest at some point). I didn't recognize this actress and kept asking my wife what she was from. We had no idea.

It's that really long dance sequence at the end. I don't know - the audience I was with was not a "cheer for the underdog" kind of crowd. I got the sense they were laughing at him. Made the whole movie seem wrong. Just gawking at a freak, not humanizing him.