For sure, and I’m more articulating what I’ve read about Grimwood’s thoughts on the matter than my own opinion (I’m quite prepared to believe it was a coincidence, and not just because I want to think nice things about the creative people behind Groundhog Day).
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Yes, Ken Grimwood’s book Replay sort of did it first. Only instead of a single day, it was going back decades into the past and re-living huge chunks of life repeatedly. And a couple other twists. But the basic premise and theme were similar enough that Grimwood himself was always suspicious of Groundhog Day for…
The comparison to Harvey is odd. In this show, it seems like Kevin and the audience can see the angel, while the other characters can’t. In Harvey, the gag was that not even the *audience* can see Harvey (it’s not even revealed until about halfway through the movie that Harvey is, in fact, real). And without having…
Yeah, Obama’s foreign policy geniuses traded five HVTs back to the Taliban for a traitor whose desertion tried to get people killed; then Obama had the balls to go around bragging about it like a hero and hosting the traitor’s looney toon dad in the Rose Garden. Also helped Iran develop a nuclear weapon in exchange…
John Bellairs ruled. Glad to see McLachlan on board, but IIRC, Izard actually doesn’t spend a lot of time on-screen.
“She then boxed her opponent, who played the pro-wrestling heel by beginning his rebuttal with “well, actually,” and wearing a robe that read “NICE GUY.” By the next morning, chatter on the festival’s unofficial Facebook page was accusing the Alamo of pressuring Simakis to participate, even after she said she took…
Revolutions eventually eat themselves.
“Neo Yokio is luxuriating in its own capitalist satire by repeatedly focusing on the lavish excess afforded to Kaz and his peers. Who needs a somewhat coherent anti-capitalist message when haute couture brands are beckoning?”
The reviewer’s alarmism over the Kingsman series’ reputed conservatism is a reminder that 95% of uses of the word “subversive” actually mean “subvert OTHER people’s ideas and assumptions.”
I think your arguments are coming from some sort of random word generator.
I used to love AICN so much back in my late teens & early 20s and first started getting into “fandom” type stuff. Then I matured, while Harry and the site stayed so shrilly juvenile and narcissistic. Particularly the latter. The man’s influence has really done untold harm to pop cultural writing in the modern age; so…
Someone was lying and claiming to have read something that they very clearly haven’t read. I pointed the lie out. End of story.
He has the ability. He doesn’t have the desire.
It’s not a “B.S. reimagining of what he ‘really meant’,” it’s a straightforward reading of what he actually wrote.
As for who he’s affiliated with since then, I’m peripherally aware that he’s given interviews to some sketchy people (there was talk of him recently appearing at an event with Milo Yiannopolous, which was…
Meanwhile, today Valerie Plame Wilson (‘member her? She was a lot more famous than James Damore and for a lot longer) took to Twitter to praise a disgusting anti-Semitic article from Unz.com, something which has been a low-key habit of hers for a while. This seems to have escaped AV Club’s notice, which is weird…
Again: outright lie.
Full memo can be found here for those who doubt me:
Nope. Try to pay attention.
Okay, you’ve proven to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that you’re lying, and that you’re determined to keep lying how many times you’re caught. We’re done here.
Which he would have known if he’d read it.