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Love the JoC! Even in a world of endless internet, it's my go-to.

"I've really put out some shit the last 30 years, but this time…this time I didn't!"

That's what they tried with this one. Now let's see if we can get them to reboot after a single movie…

I guess my question is "what's to regret?" It was a work-for-hire, dutiful reboot of Spider Man AGAIN. All you had to do was get it out there and the Superhero Industrial Complex does the rest. Did people think it was lacking in integrity or something? Who fucking gives a shit? People make fun of you for being one of

"That's amazing! That's like an ice cream man named 'Cone!'"

I have a French uncle named Jean-Luc Goddard. He feels generally positive but not terribly strongly about the director's work.

That's absurd. We all know that one's upvote-to-comment ratio is the true measure of their worth as a human or, uh, penis faced pocket monster who is always talking about Donald Trump.

if those are the two poles of quality, forever chained to adolescent power fantasy source material, how can anyone be disappointed?

whats commenter lol?

"Mass production and mass affection" Andy Warhol, HBO's My Brillo Friend.

That's a peanut? I thought that was a pit!

At its peak it was women who hated her for being too drama-club-y or something. I don't know. I didn't understand it, but it had something to do with high school.

How are they going to do all the balls-related humor though? Or the gay panic?

It's definitely not a perfect movie, but it gets by on the considerable charm of its costars—which is to say this remake has "disaster" written all over it…

I'm a little mad that now I know Sesame Street is off the L train…

He's always that dirty, which is why his show takes place on New York's streets—the only thing dirtier.

Have you seen Elephant Man? When he wants to, Lynch can reel it back in service of the story.

Courtyards! That's What They're Called!

I was pretty confused by that because it cut between the preview and the Avengers back and forth, and they all seem like an undifferentiated mass of dullness to me.

I think linking to your own articles helps your SEO or something. But yeah, that article was confusing.