Score another rare victory for nepotism!

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen on the internets today (tho it’s still early): Someone who was proudly certain for 35 years that they *understood* the plot engine of “Weekend at Bernie’s”.... and then, *today*, they had it explained to them.

I see that you are not familiar with “Meatballs 2" - yet.

The first Simpsons reference to it was in 1998's “Mayored to the Mob”, in which Homer contemplates using Quimby’s corpse to “stage an elaborate farce, a la ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’.”

Short Round was like a first-draft Jar-Jar.

That’s sort of the universal “thing” about all the Indy opening sequences - they are tributes to/evocations of the “serial adventure series” Lucas & Spielberg were using as a springboard & throwing back to, starting tensely “in media res”, as if closing the previous chapter’s adventures we haven’t seen.

Alright, take your damned star.

“Reportedly”

Never too late. Plus, enough time has passed that - stylistically’ - it’s now gone from being seen as “dated” to “ahead of its time”.

I still think of him as Enrique from “Oz”.

A/o this morning, it’s Tom, Tom, Leo, Denzel, Brad & RDJ. (And with some of them, only in certain genres can they get you what you “want”.)

“Greystroke: The Legend Of Tarzan”

This. Waaayyy too many Faks given this season. Cena was just the beginning.

Maybe it’s because he’s literally a Deus Ex Machina, but he seems to be the only acceptable - even universally-praised - “magical Negro”, from before that was even a thing. And it’s still such an underappreciated gem of a movie (Cobb’s performance is the button on it.)

One important one AWOL:

Worse yet, you’re crediting Family Guy with originality when that joke has been made about CBS shows by hack standup comics for *decades*.

I can’t support Laika studios after having seen “Claydream”, the sad documentary about how Phil Knight bought Will Vinton’s studio out from under him in order to give his aimless son Travis a new toy and career. Fuck that guy.

Think again: she doesn’t necessarily *have* to starve, but her only option is worse....

Hweh-Hweh-Hweh-Hweh-Hweh-Hweh!!!

Not nearly enough love in this thread for “Don’t Look Now
or “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”, but I am shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you, that there hasn’t been ONE MENTION made yet of either Crichton’s “The Great Train Robbery” or Bertolucci’s “1900".