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How could anyone be a Republican? The Democrats have way, way better celebrities!

Hell hath no fury than a fan-boy scorned.

To be honest, I think perhaps Goonies is one of those things that's review-proof. I was a few years too old for it, so it just came off to me at the time as some dopey kids movie filled with the usual cliches (comic relief fat kid!), cloying over-the-top music and directed by a not-quite-Spielberg. But if you were

"Justified" sucks!

Because EVERYONE had a copy of The Eagles Greatest Hits. It was required at one time, I believe.

I just remember MTV making a big hoo-ha about how "Gypsy" was the most expensive video ever made at the time of its release. (well, I don't JUST remember that, I remember more than that, but I particularly remember that)

I'm torn between being honored to be responded to by an AVClub legend such as yourself, (whom I've followed for years), and the sadness of being perceived as, well, an asshole. I like plenty, but seeing as I am, yes, a bit of grouch, I tend to mostly sound off about stuff I don't like. For example, I don't see the

Is the quality of the show really that good? Because the vibe I get from everyone who loves it is that it's basically retro-jerk-off material for fanboys who slobbered all over "The Goonies" and similar movies when they were kids. ("It's got AWESOME lens flares, just like in 'CE3K'!!!") I've only seen the first

A B+ in the bountifully generous TV Club is like a C- in the real world. Bummer.

In a just world Echo and his Bunnymen would enjoy the same level of rediscovery and / or new-found fandom amongst the Millennials that The Smiths, The Cure and Depeche Mode have.

What the hell was Winona Ryder's caffeine budget on this project?

Jeeeeee-zus… election day can't get here soon enough. At this point I don't care who wins as long as it's over.

He helped Rushdie write The Satanic Verses. ("…and perhaps you could make this paragraph a bit more…blasphemous?)

Too bad NBC is such a bitch about clip availability. I was looking forward to some vintage Lovitz. And of course don't forget how his satan re-appeared in a Salman Rushdie reenactment on "Iran's Most Wanted"

Something something Donald Trump something Hillary something something.

- he sniffed.

Me too! Not Halliburton-designed cybernetic kill-bots from the future, like our past five Presidents!

I think too much is made of that slogan. Yeah, Trump's an asshole and I hate the shit out of that guy and I'm in no way defending his campaign… but the slogan "Make America Great Again" is, (as all things are these days) being over-thought. Obama could've used it in '08, W in '00, Clinton in '92, etc. It's always

Mitt was preaching despair?

Screw the Paris Peace Talks. Kissinger's greatest feat of diplomacy was breaking up an epic Betty Ford/Tip O'Neil slug-fest donnybrook one night after a state dinner. Betty called Tip a pussy, Tip made fun of her fist names…and it was ON.