Crikey, I only heard the news about Colman Domingo being cast as Joe Jackson and thought this would be a young Michael/Jackson 5 movie, not a straight-up biopic. Thinking it was the former I expected a nuanced, unflinching portrayal. Learning it’s the latter obliterates any impression the filmmakers are interested in…

There was an excellent Esquire article that was published in the wake of the first series of accusations (Jackson eventually settled out of court). What I remember most was that he had motion detectors arranged along the hallway approaching his bedroom. This was so Jackson could be alerted when staff was approaching…

Jackson’s accusers were groomed to feed on attention and praise by Michael. This caused them to want to help testify in his favor... at first. His legal team coached them into lying for him.

Once his accusers broke the cycle of victimization and were now willing to go against Michael, his legal team used those very…

A very apt assessment in all cases.

You got that wrong too. Capitan was asking “how you landed on the second part of your comment” where you say “Go suck Trump’s butt, MAGAt.” You didn’t respond to that.

Stop. Please, just stop. We know her publicised history. You don’t need to keep doubling down on this.

Okay, I was going to let this go because you’re obviously trolling at this point, but...I’ve simply got to know how you landed on the second part of your comment. That’s a fascinating leap.

What the actual fuck? She doesn’t deserve cancer you shit. 

Congrats on the self awareness.  

“I have no sympathy”

The prequel trilogy is as despised as it always was by the people that despised it. The difference is that the opinions of 8 year olds who loved the movie at the time didn’t count and now they’re in their 30s and are counted as part of the conversation. I would guess the number of adults who saw it in theaters and…

 That this episode is forever banished is such a joke

its 2024 and I got a community notification for this?

Luckily I have the DVDs

it’s 2024 i’m reading an av club newswire about joel mchale and chevy chase fighting on the set of community

I will say Chevy Chase being an asshole was used to brilliant effect on the show at times, particularly in the D&D episode 

To be fair to McHale, the dislocated shoulder was during the filming of a scene where McHale’s character was practicing boxing by punching Chase’s padded hands, and Chase kept goading McHale to punch harder between takes. So McHale punched the padded hand as hard as he could with his left (McHale’s right handed), and…

I wonder what Chase thinks of McHale literally playing him in A Futile and Stupid Geasture?

Yeah it definitely tracks. Even that utterly repulsive rape + kill "joke" has the vibe of some pathetic old man trying to be edgier than his replacements.

The fact that McHale had the “Chevy Chase” role is an insight I hadn’t heard before. I could see someone with an ego like Chase’s being threatened by the idea that the show had a Handsome, Sarcastic Guy role, and that someone else was playing it. And physically fighting with someone 30 years younger than you…