“Because no one likes being treated like an idiot for liking certain things.”

I think you’re downright pretending that people are looking for full-length movies to watch on youtube, and that the experience of sifting through millions of videos’ worth of noise is the same as checking the local movie listings, critics’ columns, or even the RT streaming charts. There’s some real irony to the fact…

Ok, find one person actually saying that. Go on. One. Should be easy, right?

A youtube upload isn’t the same thing as theatrical distribution, and I’d argue one could point particularly towards the 70s and 90s as times when individualistic voices were being rewarded by Hollywood.

I mean, between Star Wars and Jaws, the mid-70s saw a pretty seismic change in how movies are marketed and distributed (namely the move away from roadshow release strategies and a keener focus on opening weekend as a metric of success); it may be silly to make a qualitative assessment of film based on that impact, but…

No-one is putting money into making feature films for YouTube, no-one is watching feature films made for YouTube, no-one is making a living making feature films for YouTube.

I don’t think it’s harder than before when you had to get money behind you to get your film distributed nation wide. Now you just put it up on Youtube and promote it on social media.

It’s so much easier for any indie filmmaker to get their work to a wide audience today than it ever was in the past, but he’d probably discount a 20something putting their film on Youtube as not being real cinema or some such nonsense too.

Literally, what the fuck are you talking about?

This is genuinely one of the most rancid, thoughtless articles in the history of the AV Club. It is antithetical to what this website used to be. G/O Media should do us a favor and shut the whole fucking thing down.

South Park has been exhausting for well over a decade, ever since they leaned into the “having opinions about things is dumb and for losers” schtick.

How many times has that actually happened though really?

Jesus Christ with this bullshit

Actually, I think WWDITS, particularly in later seasons, is way more serialized than Frasier, or practically any other sitcom. Haven’t seen Rez Dogs, though, so I can’t compare. It’s mostly just funny to see “different things happen and every episode is a standalone story” described as some uniquely Frasier formula.

He didn’t.

He was already pretty famous from being on a TV show for several years. 

Personally, I think being on a “Vanderpump Rules,” whatever that is, is his claim to fame here. They mention it in the headlines of many, many articles, none of which I read.

“Doesn’t really seem in the spirit of the offer.”

“The spirit of the offer.” Lady Gaga’s dogs were stolen and her friend nearly murdered. Honest offers went completely out the window when a group of sociopaths made this series of choices.

It seems very clear that McBride was waiting at the spot she “found” the dogs (presumably a public spot as there was video footage available), and happened to “find” them promptly after the dognappers left it at said spot. It’s very obvious she knew and was probably directly involved; I’m not sure what missing info…