You underestimate his cynicism. He continues to understand why his franchise is a mainstay: He loves to be hate-watched because a lot of eyes hate-watching means great ratings and hefty paychecks.

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Thanks very much for introducing me to Melody’s Echo Chamber! That’s an excellent song, and I’d never heard of them before.

God bless you for this post!

Well, crucially: Draymond Green is a gleeful provocateur with the best smile in basketball, just a lovable wacky wildman. He’s similar to Dennis Rodman in his heyday, before Dennis lost his mind. LeBron James is a sad, angry, pouty, whiny, puling, crying megamiser who, regardless of skill, is insufferable to watch.…

Well, “violative,” “incommunicado,” and “national agora” certainly aren’t helping his cause.

You’re absolutely right, but I think the fact that the source material is also crummy underlines the needlessness of the movie. That it’s considered a classic lo these many years later baffles me.

Boy, if there’s one thing this list shows, it’s that the Brits were light years ahead of everyone else in ’95 (and this doesn’t include any Blur, the year they released The Great Escape! Arguably their best record). But my goodness, Pulp, Supergrass, The Chemical Brothers...the Brits were just way, way, way, way,…

What does this mean?

I live 20 minutes from Andersen’s Pea S. Soup Pea Andersen’s and I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that that pea soup is sort of okay.

The thing about 120 Days is that, aside from its content, it is not a good film. It is a tedious slog, filmed at a lethargic pace, with almost zero in the way of narrative, rising action, true conflict, or interest. It’s a soporific cycle of depravity, and the fact that it “did what other movies didn’t do” just…