Basically yes. Basically people realized that the short story it was based on was still under copyright (because the author renewed it) even though the movie was public domain (because of a technical error in its copyright renewal).

Agricultural taxes have long had such perverse incentives (to avoid surplus crops from crashing crop prices).

Not to mention personal computers. Apple, Commodore (RIP), Radio Shack (RIP), and Atari (RIP, sort of, the current Atari is a new company that bought the name) all released their first computers in the 1970s.

I can sympathize; I accidentally killed a childhood friend by “hilariously” dropping an anvil on him. I expected him to walk like an accordion for a few minutes and then be fine, the way Looney Tunes worked.

Is the guy really named “Timbaland”? It sounds like the carpet warehouse store Justin would found after his 15 minutes of fame expired.

At least that was a winnable war. I assume it was their smear campaign that reduced him to yesterday’s news decade ago.

I liked it, but then I knew people like Giamatti’s character. People who were really alcoholics but pretended they weren’t because they didn’t get drunk on cheap vodka or beer but expensive wine or Scotch.

Although Taxi Driver basically is about how the 1970s sucked. At least in NYC.

I think I get what Payne means though. Yes, all movies become dated, but there is a difference between that and a “period piece” set in a time before it was made because those so often become nostalgia-tinted and have all these “clever” winks to the audience about characters predicting that computers will never catch…

It was Earth all along!

Especially in such a gritty, realistic franchise like Ghostbusters! What were the scriptwriters thinking?

I think it’s obvious what needs to be done. Bring back Ang Lee and Eric Bana and declare the MCU non-canon and start again with the Hulkverse.

Caroline Dhavernas is too busy these days for a Wonderfalls reboot — she’s the new voice of the suburban Montreal light rail system (I assume she is actually announcing the train stops in real time rather than using a recording).

Yeah, that’s what got Harry Houdini into denouncing “psychics” and basically creating the modern skeptic movement -- his wife got really into mystic crap when their son died and after going to a couple of seances he realized that they were using the same tricks he used on stage -- but instead of entertaining people…

Darcy-esque declarations of love,

There was also the 1980s punk/alt-rock band “The Coolies” which had a hilarious but awesome album “dig..?” in 1986 that consisted of Simon & Garfunkel covers done in punk style, with them screaming “BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS” and the like.

Has the mainstream music industry ever been other than “what people like”? I mean, I thought I was cool in the 1980s and 1990s because I liked alt-rock rather than Arena-Rock, but the whole reason why arena rock stars filled arenas was because a lot of people liked them. And even the alt-rock I preferred was governed…

People who weren’t around don’t realize just how controversial the show was at the start and how disrespectful it was seen towards “traditional families” with a father that was respected by his kids. George Bush (the father) even said in a speech “I want to see an America more like The Waltons than The Simpsons”. Of…