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David Conrad
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Will Farrell doesn't even look that much like Gordon Lightfoot, but he looks like the Gordon Lightfoot of my mind. It's the first thing I think of.

Sometimes I see people refer to Poochie. Are they all always referring to the pink poodle who runs an advice column? It seems like too many references for that to be the case.

I like it. As far as avoiding the Holocaust goes, eliminating WWI is safer than merely killing Hitler. But how would you do it? Simply stop the assassination of the Archduke?

Pokemon a bad thing? What?

Something about the kind of suit and undershirt. I can't prove it, I just think it.

Never seen Places in the Heart, I see!

The rational part of my brain believes this to be true. But I hated him sooo much on SNL. So much.

Those, more than anything else, are what keep me from being able to cross the Farrell Rubicon. They also kept me from enjoying Cheri Oteri, though she was probably perfectly fine in other sketches.

I'm guessing you're 3-4 years younger than me. I'm 31. My younger brother and I both loved the first one, and he liked 2, but it made me feel lost and confused and sad and tired. I'm not saying it was bad, but for some reason it was a sign that my generation had passed.

I would prevent Will Farrell from joining SNL. I don't care how well-loved his later solo projects are, I never came around to liking that guy.

That top one is just as much William H. Macy as it is Steve Buscemi.

My problem with that is that there's a huge gap, to my way of thinking, between "OK" and "Fuck right off." There's "just regular ol' bad" or "too flawed to be OK, but not detestable."

The B- is undeserved. It's no better than a C+, and probably worse. (Yes, I've seen it.)

I find that fancy suits are a stereotype of South Asians/Middle Easterners, but yes, it COULD be innocuous or even just not a big deal. It was once I saw the tea set that it started to make me think.

The deaths of humans in this movie are really gross in a that-was-uncalled-for, mean-spirited kind of way. It's super-casual about its body count.

The movie is actually fairly… awkward regarding Wong and Khan. The South Asian guy wears a very fancy tailored suit, which seems stereotypical, and Wong drinks tea out of a very austere tea-set that the camera lingers on. There were no ethnic signifiers in the first movie. Why the hell are they here?

I've seen it!

On this subject, when you get to the end of Jurassic World, ask yourself "What were the best human deaths? What were the names of the people who died?"

They're really quite close to Lex and Tim except for Lex's gender. The movie is at its best when they're on screen. When Pratt is around they have nothing to do, and they get bratty.

Exactly. Critics are going easy on it, calling out all its flaws but then saying "It's fun!" It's really, really not.