@avclub-01e8318c286a584caffbb596a95652d2:disqus Dargis frequently champions weird movies. I remember she was vocal proponent of Southland Tales. And her writing is frequently brilliant. And yes, I will join in the appreciation for A.O. Scott.

"The rest of the movie is the kind of time-wasting drivel designed to
appeal to electronics nerds and skateboarders addicted to Xbox 360 video
games whose knowledge of the arts begins and ends with MTV2. Instead of
electronic wands like Nintendo’s Wii controller.."

@avclub-da518aecddbf5c94588f53562012c452:disqus Exactly! Why would the cool kids waste their time bullying? They were too busy throwing parties and getting laid.

@avclub-ae1846aa63a2c9a5b1d528b1a1d507f7:disqus I'm with you and am eternally annoyed by my friends and acquaintances who are content to have been most adventurous when they were dumb kids.

The cliques in my school were pretty defined, but far more complexly defined. It wasn't the clique of "jocks" that encompassed a bunch of people, there were the heavy metal jocks, and the attractive jocks, and the goof off jocks, etc. All cliques lived together in relative harmony. The bullies were really defined on…

We hardly knew ye Fruity Yummy Mummy

Fuck you and your suggestion of a nuanced opinion! Now declare your total love or total hatred for Ms. Deschanel and be gone!

Someone help me. I'm trying to figure out why my method of arrested development (wearing Batman pajamas and watching The Incredibles regularly) is better than whatever method of arrested development Sandler and his buddies are promoting when they make movies about not being real grown ups.

I confused it for an adaptation of the classic video game of the same name.

SB showed up in person to accept her Razzie, that earns a lot of "probably not a phony" points.

While it wouldn't kill Sesame Street to have an openly gay presence somewhere on the show. Bert and Ernie have always represented two men in a sincere, caring, platonic friendship, which at this point may be a more uncommon thing on TV than gay characters.

It's a slice of life.

Speaking of which, thank goodness Lois didn't abort superbaby eh?

The Star Trek reboot is a good point of comparison because they did a really good job making the reboot work as a part of the old franchise but also as a totally new franchise. (we'll ignore Into Darkness's inability to break free of old stories). In terms of the 2009 film, it was a very clever conceit.

How about a Superman movie that's a period film, set in the mid-20th century?

No talking out of school. What's out of school? Everything is out of school.

When cutting trailers for these prestige pictures, instead of "Academy Award Nominee (actor name here)" the text should say:

When cutting trailers for these prestige pictures, instead of "Academy Award Nominee (actor name here)" the text should say:

Kids who grew up during the internet age will never appreciate the specialness of the JC Penney catalog.

And that's why everyone in alula_auburn's class developed a carny fetish.