tbf it’s increasingly hard to carve a path as a director without taking those sorts of hired-gun gigs where you’re shepherding someone else’s vision. 

Page-to-screen adaptations have been popular for eons now but it feels like the turnaround window keeps getting shorter and shorter. 

Hey, if you wouldn’t feel comfortable saying it to the person’s face, why say it online? If posting is the only way you feel any sort of power or control, you gotta find a constructive hobby. Me? I build ships in bottles and post like a human virus.

Maya Rudolph is connected to Vampire Weekend through HAIM: Lead singer Danielle Haim used to date Vampire Weekend producer Ariel Rechtshaid’s father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.

eh, some of the jokes get creakier with season 7. still churning out bangers, tho

funny you say that; while the characters represent the nadir of the show prepping to sustain itself for endless seasons, I think the actual Nikki and Paolo episode is a lot of fun and very indicative of the course correction in the back half of S3.

I rewatched Lost a year or so ago, and I think 1 is really strong, though it drags a bit on rewatch as you know a lot of the character revelations which are dribbled out over the course of the season. Personally I liked 5 the most, when the show is humming along in pure pulp sci-fi mode.

and with that, Kinja gets one step closer to the experience of sitting on a CB radio in the Flying J parking lot.

ehhh I’m calling foul; these are like a handful of examples which you could contest (the third season of Community is uneven and a bit manic; Lost’s third season also contains some of its worst episodes before the midseason hiatus; while the Red Wedding is a peak moment in GoT, the story/storytelling only gets better…

It’s been a few years since I rewatched VB in full (I’m overdue as I haven’t watched the finale yet), but I remember disliking the third season for its increased (imo excessive) focus on its own lore and backstory. I think the writing team balances that impulse better in later seasons, though I think the second season…

What a fever dream; I had no idea this was coming.

Captain Calipers over here wants to talk X-Men lol

I got a Norman Mailer notification for *this?*

tbf in this thread and previous threads he’s always the one to bring up the word and then others adopt it when they realize that’s the perfect term for his behavior. it’s more that he called himself one and we all agreed

i read the headline, thought it was the round-backed fella with the glasses and the green hat and got a little sad. this guy with the stringy hair though?

well, not totally criticism-proof apparently

On the one hand, I’d say Cohen’s entire reputation is all about how he pushes the limits of comfort and tries to mine humor out of putting people in uncomfortable situations. On the other, that entire thing also hinges on manipulating media and getting in the news for faking things that are just on the edge of…

I don’t think we’re talking memes in 2001; by 2010/2015, Zoolander gifs were going around pretty regularly. Zoolander was part of the cultural language for lots of people who were young when it came out in 2001. Like the driving to get orange mocha frappacinos gif was very common, and “Blue Steel” was regularly seen…

Ah yes, the reductive staying power of a meme. I’m not saying a sequel was a good idea, but if your first movie has generated a slew of memes that indicates longevity and a place in the pop culture consciousness, not some irrelevant digital ghetto.

See, that strikes me as an issue of expectations, not the quality of the movie itself. “The movie doesn’t go anywhere” is a critique of the work; “I wanted more twists” is a personal preference.