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We get it. You, the readers of The A.V. Club, are tired of hearing about Olivia Wilde and Harry Styles and Florence Pugh and all the rest. Believe it or not, we, the writers of The A.V. Club, are also pretty tired of discussing it.

Iinternet outrage isnt built for any sort of nuance, don't kid yourself on.

Chapelle’s an asshole but wasn’t the housing deal more complicated than him saying NIMBY? Like the developer was bait-and-switching a tiny portion of the lots as low-income housing and the vast majority would be above market?

John Walker killing the Flag Smasher with Captain America’s shield is a notable exception, and not coincidentally was probably the best moment in that entire series, and one of the best overall in the recent Marvel TV series.

It’s pretty clear (to me, at least) that the over-the-topness of WWE can naturally lead to Hollywood comedy/action roles for the more charismatic individuals. Johnson, Cena and Bautista seem to back this up. 

Yeah, it makes intuitive sense. Vs the whole Sith “Only two there are” which is both meaninglessly cryptic and CLEARLY FULL OF SHIT.

Two pretty dire films with completely different reasons why.

Because Laserface is the pathetic hypocrite that they are and dismissed my reply to them:

A sincere, thank you, for replying as you did.

I didn’t see it, was Jojo Rabbit not really in the vein of those two?

It definitely has some similarities. It’s inferior; however, I nonetheless had a good time. 

Sorry dude, it was a slice of charming, cute fun. B- if you must but I’d give it a solid b. And Taika was hilarious. 

And after all, who is Deadpool, really, but The Mask with a dirtier vocabulary and a more modern frame of pop-culture reference?”

I actually like him in the first season when his running gag was him volunteering for medical trials to pay for school and he had some different, weird side effect each time?  They then re-tooled it to be a run of the mill romcom, but it did have Nathan Fillion.

Rewatching it years later, the central problem with LAH really is how they write the kid. He's whiny, he underlines every reference and joke, he drags down the action scenes, and his character doesn't really learn anything (the movie is clearly setting up a "learn to deal with your real problems" thing with the school

Reynolds’ character, called simply Guy, is an unyieldingly chipper everydude who greets each morning with a smile. Throwing on the same blue shirt, listening to the same tune from another famous Carrey, and ordering the exact same cup of coffee, Guy lives his life in a state of happy repetition.

I fucking LOOOOOOOOVE Last Action Hero. Outstanding performances (Charles Dance was always an ace villain), great dialogue (“Danny told me not to trust you. You killed Mo Zart!”) and a genuinely clever premise. Plus that soundtrack, which I still have on CD somewhere (Anthrax! Megadeth! AC/DC! Fishbone! Def Leppard!

Zak Penn writing this points to a better comparison, I think — Penn was one of the people who came up with Last Action Hero, which is also about a person programmed for entertainment learning about his subservience to the “real world,” and has plenty of “amusingly reproduced cliches” in its action-comedy. That movie

It’s funny, because 23 years ago I was watching the pilot of Two Guys, A Girl, and a Pizza Place and the first thing I thought of when Ryan Reynolds came on screen was, “Wow, this guy is a discount, generic-brand version of Jim Carrey. Get a new shtick, dude.”

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