For real with Meet the Robinsons? I've never seen it, but I have heard a few earnest defenses.
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He was Milo! The main guy!
So I've heard — evidently it's three episodes of a planned-then-scrapped TV series strung together.
I also just read Saga v2, which is fantastic. I love v1 as well, but this time I really found myself thinking that this might be a modern classic in the making.
I had a very rewarding and thought-provoking double-feature of two movies I wrote off a decade ago, and I think they say something fascinating about how sometimes we arrive at a cultural consensus and move on and it gets locked in place, and that consensus is dead wrong.
Monkey men all
In business suit
Teacher and critic
All dance the Poot[s]
There may be no movie on which I feel a larger gulf between myself and Internet Nation than Hot Fuzz. I just found it unendurable. It has the same plot as The Wicker Man! Why is that funny? Does the ridiculous murder-cult plot really have anything whatsoever to do with Bad Boys II or Point Break? I just desperately…
Oh jeez, I'd say "total lack of self-awareness" is my mom's defining characteristic.
Nobody seems to ever talk about what a ballsy experiment the Regulators/Desperation pairing was. There are innumerable little parallels that only leap out after a while, such as the fact that in each book a character named David spends the majority of his scenes covered in soap for some reason. It's a trippy…
Hey — I loved Desperation!
Maybe not even a mistake — it's more like the right decision in the moment isn't always the best one for the larger picture.
Well said! That's it exactly — it's not like Lindsay has anything but good intentions here. She just kind of goes with the moment, as we all have, and in hindsight it was a bit of a mistake.
That's why this is Nick's best ep and one of the best overall — as claer as it is to every one of us watching that Nick is going about all sorts of things all wrong, we recognize that that's exactly what we were like (well, some of us anyway) at that age. It's so damned hard to have any kind of true self-awareness as…
What @avclub-6997a8bd0e1042b70b60c5c879a1780e:disqus said. The cringe-iness is what makes it cut and hurt and that's why we remember this episode so fondly. Lindsay AND Nick are both doing some stupid things, but with the best of intentions. That's how you grow up.
The crucial thing here is that on Lindsay's part it's about 90% a pity-kiss. But there's that small part of her — because she's young and inexperienced, and she's in a phase where she's tryong to be open to new things — that thinks, "what the hell — why not?" For a brief moment, she tries out a version of her life in…
"I'm With The Band" is one of the best, maybe even top three. There's something so poignant about how clearly the show sees Nick's fairly bleak future, and even when he's being a creepy, over-attached fake boyfriend you can't help but feel for the big dummy.
One day you'll outgrow the "deliberately obtuse" aspect of your persona, HDB.
@avclub-30016cd5b9045be8de99ad5f1cbfd9af:disqus , I hear you — Dany's book 2 exploits are a little thin, so why not beef up her end of things? It's a good idea for sure.