The Kingdom of Heaven Director’s Cut is genuinely a different film, and deserves that spot on the list with a bullet.

I mean, there’s a pretty obvious reason why Smooth Criminal is on this list, and it’s the same reason it wouldn’t have been popped on the list at any time before 2016. Times change, and eventually anything ironic and old gets a harsh re-evaluation. “And...what were you being ironic about, exactly?”

Oh yeah, those are terrific adaptations of some very “airport bestseller” books, from filmmakers that knew precisely what to scrap and what to zero in on. And as is the case with most books, you’d have to make cuts to King’s novel to fit it into a film.

Anyone who’s read the book before seeing the movie would be understandably put off by Kubrick’s “interpretation.” He really did just use it as a jumping-off point, and clearly didn’t give a shit about anything King was trying to say with the character. If I had to hazard a guess, from Kubrick’s point of view he had…

I also think TLJ towers far, far, far above anything from the sequel or prequel trilogies, but in hindsight it’s clearly such a wrecking ball that it needed to belong in its own trilogy. Like, I love that Rian Johnson felt the same way about Snoke as I did, but really that means he just shouldn’t have been handed…

Another reason they’re held up as the only good part in bad movies is because entertainment sites would like to keep interviewing them in the future.

Same, since I got sick one day in 5th grade and stayed home from school, channel surfing until I hit Comedy Central. I almost thought I was hallucinating what I saw, but immediately I start laughing my ass off. Of course, it was Pod People.

Hands down this is what should be printed on the AV Club’s tombstone. In impossibly tiny font, I suppose. Or on a very big stone.

This is giving big “It’s gonna be a Super Bowl ad” energy

The monologuing launched into full-on parody in Midnight Mass. Just bonkers levels of “No one can tell me to cut this.” And often the writing in these soliloquies gets a bit cutesy-poo...a good example is the line of dialogue singled out in this review! No one talks like this! I’m sure the actor involved will invest…

I would really love to hear what Nolan would change about Malcolm X.

I was going to suggest Motherface from Dude Bro Party Massacre III, but then I remembered...of course, she already had two other go-rounds.

Doja is crafting an excellent test case for fandoms suddenly hating the music their idols make, when it’s clear the parasocial relationship is called out as bullshit. If she kept the ruse up like every other pop star, they would be loving these new tracks - instead they’re getting ripped to shreds. Would be surprised…

Gonna watch this, but if the monologue count goes past 5 in the first episode, I’m stopping.

9 times out of 10 it’s a failed writer making this kind of bullshit comment. The other 1 time out of 10 it’s a culture war grifter*

I think if they had no choice but to include Joker in this movie (which has every chance of being an actual WB mandate), it seems pretty clear that you make him the bad guy instead of this random cameo. Obviously the movie is edited into an utter hash, slapped together with on-the-nose pop songs and all this obvious…

It’s acceptable to not label Succession a comedy like the others on this list. And I’m in full agreement that nothing can touch AD’s first three seasons, including their dogshit later seasons. But where’s I Think You Should Leave?

Val Kilmer in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Will Forte in MacGruber, the guy who says “But Black Dynamite, I sell drugs to the community!”

This definitely sounds like he’s laying the track for his exit. Make some anti-vax comments, movie flops gets buried because the Powers That Be decide to cancel him, and now it turns out all Hollywood movies are garbage anyway. 

It remains a surprisingly frightening part of the book more than a century later.