It’s difficult to contextualize it now because it’s taken for granted, as if Woody Allen has always existed and been a comic auteur. No other comic was able to transition from stand up to an academy award winning director quite the way that Allen did it, and with such consistency. Since then, we’ve seen other examples…

Sarcasm?

Allen was a pioneering comic voice in cinema unique in the time he made his most major works. He started as a stand up comic and worked his way up through farce and physical comedy to make the kinds of more dramatic movies he would later become known for. His contributions to the genres of romantic comedy, fantasy,…

Hah sorry, I should have added “post 1975-Fleetwood Mac”

Can I just say how much I appreciate the Fleetwood Mac nerding out going on in this thread?

Fleetwood Mac really isn’t Fleetwood Mac without all of the members there.

Looks like a trailer made of clips for a dozen other played out, not scary ‘horror’ movies. Yawn.

I wonder what JK Rowling has to say about the experience of black wizards in England.

Thank you.

What if it was like bring your parent to school day, but your parent was ... Daniel Plainview from There Will Be Blood... I mean, uh.. someone else?

That performance was embarrassing. I know the SNL sound is historically terrible, but still. Looked and sounded like a talent show.

This would have been the best Interpol song in years.

This place is a cesspool

Luke warm take

Clearly directors you love disagree with you.

If you’re legitimately surprised by any of this, you haven’t been paying attention to Norm MacDonald for his entire career. That being said, who cares? Of course these would be his takes. Norm MacDonald is not the comic AVClub wants him to be, even if it hasn’t realized that for the past, oh i don’t know, ever.

“Having watched the trailer it seems”

No

Uh... Isn’t this just a Turbosail? The sailboat invented by Jaques Cousteau in 1981?

Fuck off you hypocritical imbecile.