it’s 2024 i’m reading an av club newswire about joel mchale and chevy chase fighting on the set of community

The fact that McHale had the “Chevy Chase” role is an insight I hadn’t heard before. I could see someone with an ego like Chase’s being threatened by the idea that the show had a Handsome, Sarcastic Guy role, and that someone else was playing it. And physically fighting with someone 30 years younger than you…

This isn’t a problem in any other country on the planet,

Well, we simply MUST shuffle ever-increasing levels of money into top investors’ overseas bank accounts somehow, mustn’t we?

The fact that you think marketing is something that that should taught in film classes really tells us all we need to know about the MCU. 

A $1 increase from a service that hasn’t raised prices in over a decade is bleak? Have you been outside at all since 2016? (Also, quit making me defend end-stage capitalism, goddammit.)

Looking at the still, I don’t see how it’s possible to take it as anything other than a very pointed joke for the exact reasons you state, which is weird because you’d have to be pretty well-versed in Sino-Asian politics to get it, and 99% of the people who meet that qualification live in those countries and have all…

When I heard the movie had done this, I thought it sounded like the absolute worst, most craven example of Hollywood sucking up to the CCP - like, in what scenario would you need to include any maritime boundary on a map, let alone this one?

Yeah. I read the Vulture article first, and it...colored my perceptions of this one, shall we say. Because now it just looks like a whole bunch of fiddly extra work that doesn’t add much getting dumped into everyone’s laps.

That all sounds a lot more like some theaters were shipped an incomplete version of the film, and now that people have noticed they’re trying to spin it as something deliberate.

Clue, now that’s a good movie.

I found the ending of that show oddly uplifting. Mulaney saying he’d gone through so much shit that it had essentially cured him of caring what other people think of him. Or, as he memorably puts it, “You’ll cancel John Mulaney? I’ll kill him!”

It’s not just this movie, it’s how every single piece of mainstream media that included trans-coded characters back then, made them villains or freaks. There were no positive mainstream portrayals, period. I can only imagine how damaging that cultural context was to young trans people who were just finding themselves,…

I think that’s bit rough. It’s an opinion piece by someone who’s life was directly and negatively affected by this film.

I loved the line just prior, "…you can answer your cell phones, it sounds like you shoplifted a bunch of vibrators."

Kent's face as everyone else was crying was the best.

I'm still gonna go with Dan saying that he killed a stray dog because some older kid dared him to.

Kent's "I grieve with thee" and the utterly inhuman way he put his arm on Selina's shoulder to offer condolences in the way of approval numbers were just magnificent. Gary Cole is unbelievable in that role.

"I need to be driven to the airport at Diana speed."

This was an A+ episode for me, mostly because I'm looking forward to the day I can pull the plug on my own mother.