Oh no, the worst version of Shop Around the Corner (to my knowledge) is a 2011 Bollywood picture where Facebook replaces AOL. Each lead catfishes the other lead, as well as many other terrible things, and there aren’t any of the redeeming ensemble players that almost every other version has.
Warning though: the music is forgettable at best. There’s a cute refrain for the holiday season but otherwise iffy. I saw it at my beloved regional theater last year, and only a a lead who was the living embodiment of James Stewart saved it for me. I'm surprised no one, including the reviewer, mentioned In the Good…
You forgot the most important moment! The Temptation of Joey, when he almost ranks Shooby low in the last ranking but can't follow through is peak bromance. I didn't really care who won until then but I'm glad Joey got rewarded for choosing to do the right thing instead of the smart thing.
My guess is that there’s going to be a picture of a man on Lando’s dashboard. Big enough to feel significant, but easy enough to overlook that Disney thinks they can sneak it past China.
I see your point. However, in my opinion a good translator should choose words that not only are technically accurate, but produce the author’s intended feeling in the reader. Hugo wanted people to love sewers the way public-minded book nerds love libraries. Consciously, I do love sewers that way! They’re why I don’t…
No one has ever needed an editor more. Hugo was two things: a fine creator of emotionally manipulative, This Is Us-style weepathons; and a grumpy, long-winded, terminally boring asshole essayist. Tbh he was pretty brilliant to wrap the latter in the former because otherwise no one would ever still be reading his stuff…
While I appreciate your comment inspired me to learn a lot by Googling “Victor Hugo sex,” I sincerely hope he never experimented with anything with a cloaca.
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The length of the Paris sewer system description isn't even the worst bit: it's the number of times my translation used the word 'cloaca' to describe it.
I mean, have you seen Yoda’s fights in the prequels? He doesn’t fly the same way that Superman initially could just jump really high.
mmm . . . a fairer comparison would be to compare Disney’s TV programs from the same period. Not many people are holding up Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears as classic entertainment. There’s just a fundamental difference between media meant to fill airwaves and media meant to sell theater tickets and serve as…
“If you must know, Mother, he is my doody buddy”
I have been so resistant to warming up to Bernie, particularly because a lot of media covers him as the inverse Trump, still a angry old man yelling at the world. (Also, a lot of the Bernie fans I personally know are real jerks about it.) However, this got me good. I understand the fascination.
I love the chutzpah of their extremely specific His Girl Friday pastiche. I might be one of the only people under thirty who can appreciate their dunk on Ralph Bellamy, but I heartily guffawed. Bellamy would absolutely be a dog stuck in a car with rolled up windows in Hollywoo.
I'm always rooting for Aisling Bea's projects to work, but truly, using her as a straight woman is a crime. On QI she produces involuntary, shaking, uncontrollable giggles.
As a fan of the character, I don’t give a hoot. Kate has some high femme moments, but is better characterized as a free-ass m-f who can class it up when she’s in drag as socialite Kate Kane. (Just like how Bruce Wayne socialite is as much a mask as the Batsuit) Kate Kane’s look so far reflects her style for casual…
Hey, don’t disrespect Dani Kind! She is quite funny in Workin’ Moms
The VJ idea is great. I haven’t seen any of these films, but low-budget action is a common genre for MST3K targets. It’s like skipping the step in the MST3K process where chumps have to sit through the unpunched-up film for full price. A really smart way to create a more entertaining film even with constraints.
So, B- for film quality, A+ for nominative determinism? Sending Tenzing Norgay's grandson and namesake to an animated Everest has to count for something