It’s one of those moments where you encounter a piece of pop culture via the simpsons before you encounter it in the wild. I can similarly never really take Cape Fear seriously now if I choose to watch it.

For me personally, it delivered on the things you mentioned, but lacked a romance that worked, a lead with charisma, and a villain (the movie has literally four villains and they keep switching with no rhyme or reason). 

Hey, you leave my dealer out of this, he’s got enough worries trying to get custody of his kids.

Right, so a couple surface similarities, mostly in terms of visuals, but nowhere near enough to say ‘So basically this looks to be...’

It’d be more effective if I could hear it in any voice but Groundskeeper Willy’s.

I was a little hesitant with Wright making a film in a genre I don’t tend to like, but it looks refreshingly like something a little different than standard horror fare. Plus Matt Smith. 

Does it though? Nightmare on Elm Street has pretty much no similarity beyond one or two visuals and this being somehow related to sleep. Plus the time travel element is different. I feel like this comparison isn’t actually accurate. 

Yeah, people decided he was a religious nut because he was, well, religious. That said, as far as I can tell it hasn’t hurt him in the least, it just leads to blandly snarky articles and comments. 

Has it though? I mean, his star has fallen on this site because of the church thing, but he still is starring in a load of movies and seems to be a genuinely bankable star. I think this one boils down to pop culture reporting being a bubble, not Chris Pratt losing it. 

I recently watched the season 6 ‘grifting’ episode of Community and was sort of amazed to see the character stop around the midway point to just discuss how awful ‘The Sting’ is. I didn’t realize any sane person felt this way and am always amazed Harmon will so bluntly do that in his shows. I guess I’d just assumed…

The ‘Me so Hungy’ scene was painful in exactly the right way that allowed you to believe this supermodel gorgeous actress would, in fact, be the member of the group everyone hated. 

Yeah, I just finished finally watching the latter two harmon seasons and the whole thing left a sour taste in my mouth for a bunch of reasons (not the least of which the ones you observe). But I was surprised to see how much depth Britta is allowed to have as a character who knows she’s a little ridiculous but is too…

I’d like to see Gillian Jacobs in more stuff. I think she was quietly (along with Donald Glover) one of the most versatile players in Community. 

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Hey readers, have a non-story that shows rage at something silly with a faint tinge of pop cultural subject matter and allows us to re-iterate how much we hate the rich. It will go under ‘Great Job Internet’ a category that encompasses anything we want.

Oh please, I think we all know Dexter was a project cooked up entirely by Vince Gilligan to ensure his finale would look amazing by comparison. It was a long game but it payed off big. 

Is he? I don’t know much about him. The stories out of Suicide Squad were gross but seemed mostly like a publicity stunt and other than that I know nothing about him that would suggest one should hope for his death. 

You missed a golden opportunity to say ‘ The AV Club’

Joker is an elastic character. There have been a bunch of different takes on him with various degrees of success and failure (I’m partial to Heath Ledger and John Dimmagio).