I gave up watching shortly after the beginning of Season 2 but have largely kept up via the reviews (less schadenfreude than can’t avert your eyes from the dumpster fire), and I’ll reiterate the conclusion I reached back in Season 1: while legal issues made it extremely hard to find a copy for decades, the movie…

For me, the flying leap from the counter followed by face planting.  Genius over the top moment.

I’d agree with you that The Wedding Singer is the superior movie and has aged a lot better. I’ve only rewatched this once or twice in the last decade and while I thought it was hilarious on release, I’ve never been a fan of gross out humor. This really opened up the gates, afterwards it was done to death, and that’s a…

This is a very strangely timed piece considering the first episode of Season 2 has been out for months - and save for a vague and somewhat inaccurate single article based off the screeners (which only went to episode 8, and thus missed some massive plot twists), AV Club punted on reviewing it.

Yep, first partner, best partner.

As far as the lie, among other things she maintained that it was due to the disassociative state of the protagonist and that only second person could properly capture it - stuff of that nature. Being a psychologist by trade, most people gave her the benefit of the doubt and praised her for it since Only Very Talented…

I loved the first and thought it deserved every award, thought the second was mediocre (and the 20 page infodump especially terrible writing), and the third was somewhere in between (although it did show she’d been outright lying to readers about why she was using the second person narration, which came off as pretty…

Thanks for that - I had honestly forgotten that interview.

I’ll agree only in that Meg Ryan’s Texas accent is, well, distracting; the rest of the performance isn’t Oscar worthy - and it largely took her out of Serious Actor Roles for a decade - but it’s not horrific either, particularly when we finally get to what actually happened (“There will be a reckonin’”).

If you have no idea of how it was received at the time, it was a. run with a campaign of Medal of Honor recipients saying ‘this actually could have happened’ b. the issues in it - friendly fire, the shit that women face in the military, the debate over their combat worthiness, Gulf War Syndrome - were presented years…

Yeah, I vaguely remembered that it opened up other roles for him but had forgotten the details.

A year too late; the best pre-stardom Matt Damon was his supporting role as the medic in 1996's Courage Under Fire, still one of the better war movies of the last few decades - and really underseen in recent years.

Late to the party - only watched it a couple of nights ago - and maybe I didn’t pay close enough attention, but that entire scene just felt contrived to get Kate Winslet another action sequence.

Well, we had a bunch of pot bellied male streamers in hot tubs today so we’ll see who wins.

13 year old me would have loved these streams and wanted to borrow Mom’s credit card.

Never saw the remake and I haven’t watched the original for quite possibly a couple of decades so this is very hazy, but what I remember is:

First boot on Mars that is.  Whoops!

Entry 10 of my “Why the hell doesn’t AV Club cover For All Mankind” series, along with a brief review of the season.

I can see where if you felt the interpersonal stuff was more solid than I did that a lot of the season would have been more palatable. That said, I do think given the very visceral reaction by Reddit to Danny and Karen that most weren’t really able to overcome it. I suspect that Ed may have a moment where things are…

Episode 9 in my “Why the hell doesn’t AV Club cover For All Mankind” series.