Isn’t that exactly what Craig’s Bond was intended to do?

Lest we forget that, while his big break was obviously Even Stevens, Project Greenlight is directly responsible for thrusting Shia LeBouf into the world as a serious actor.

There are countless examples of films being flops at the BO but going on to great success on home video/TV. Shawshank Redemption is one of the most prominent examples but there are tons and tons of others. In the TV world, you also have Family Guy being very famously saved by DVD sales (and syndication on Adult Swim)…

Anyone else deeply alarmed by the fact that someone who was 11 in 2009 is old enough to write for a major media website? I’m only 9 years older but it was still sobering given I was in college when they were in 5th grade.

I wonder if OP has any great jokes about attack helicopters he’d like to tell us.

It’s very simple. White, straight men hold the majority of power in society. Making jokes at their expense is not “racism,” because racism necessitates a power imbalance between the oppressor and the oppressed. Punching up at the dominant racial group in society is not racism. Transgender people, on the other hand,…

The Healthy Choice guy inspired a Paul Thomas Anderson film. The Pepsi kid gets a Netflix documentary. I still think the HC dude comes out on top here.

It was definitely not too popular upon release. A lot of that was due to the fact that Christmas movies were very much out of style in the early 80s, and that it was released a week before Thanksgiving and was out of theaters long before Christmas. Canadian audiences reacted better to it than American ones. It wasn’t…

I agree with your assessment of its appeal to younger generations. I’m a millennial who watched it for the first time during the 1st or 2nd year of the 24 hour marathon on TBS and immediately fell in love. I realized later that I loved it because it’s a Christmas movie that does not traffic in “Christmas spirit”…

I said it in another comment, but they also totally blew any sense of surprise by featuring Hanks and Moynihan in sketches IMMEDIATELY proceeding the DSP sketch. I believe it went AA sketch, Update, and DSP in that order. As soon as the scene opened, everyone knew right away what was coming and it spoiled the payoff.…

I agree, they completely blew the David S. Pumpkins reveal. IIRC, the order went: AA sketch with Hanks cameo, Update with Moynihan cameo, and then, immediately after, DSP, with the same set up as every other time they’ve done it. As soon as the scene opened, it was obvious what they were doing since both guest stars…

Regarding the difference in the cultural response to/remembrance of WWI vs WWII, it should be noted that WWI has a much bigger place in the consciousness of those in countries that were actually affected by the war. Of the roughly 5 million military deaths, the US only lost around 100,000. Meanwhile England, France,…

Personally, I’ve been pushing for Schindler’s List II: Schindler’s Pissed

I was going to say, isn’t Western Front insanely long? But according to Wikipedia it’s only 200 pages? I swear every copy I’ve ever seen of this book is an enormous, War and Peace-sized tome. Do some editions have additional material or something? Even the images I’m seeing on Google look like they’re way more than…

Perry was also very clearly the least talented of the main cast by a significant margin. Hence why they mostly still have careers* while he’s writing trashy memoirs to gin up sympathy and remind people he still exists.

Everyone I know, including my wife who had one for years, who owned a Fit loved it. Honestly, the whole low-end hatchback category needs to come back. They’re pretty much all disappearing or getting inflated into big crossovers. As someone who recently bought a CX-3 (another dead model), having a small, quick car that…

I thought these were so cool when they first came out. It was mostly the panoramic moonroof, but I thought the design was really cool. It looks goofy as hell to me these days. There’s one in my neighborhood and I just marvel at how dumb and blocky it looks. And this is from someone who generally likes those boxy early…

Matrix was the Toyota version, the Pontiac version was the Vibe. Wasn’t the big selling point on those that they had an AC outlet in them, or am I thinking of something else.

I think Spider-Man 3 was the beginning of the end of that era. And it was fully killed off when Rian Johnson’s “vision” pissed off Disney so much they kicked another young director off the sequel.

“Terrifier 2 made me MIGHTY sick! It made me go the hospital for HOURS and I missed my family photo that night! Was that the joke?”