The Hateful 8 was just too much of a slog to me. There was no bright spot. It was just all nasty and, well, hateful. I guess he warned us. It was a huge low point in Tarantino’s career imo. 

Agreed. I like all of his movies, but some have way less interest on multiple watches. Jackie Brown and Once Upon a Time both hold up so well. I’d be very into getting more into the Once Upon a Time world. 

Not much of a Tarantino freak, but I enjoy Inglorious Basterds most.

I read the book, listened to the podcast, thought the story was fascinating. But I found the documentary awful. It was boring and it didn’t explain WHY any of this was happening. If you hadn’t read the book you’d have no idea who this person was for the first half of the doc.

I finished the whole thing, but it’s one of my least favorite films of its year. It is one of the flattest major documentaries in recent memory. 

Starred because I did the same. And I’m not usually like that with docs.

Occasionally modern SNL will still provide laughs, but I can’t remember the last time I laughed at a new Simpsons episode.

This and the fact they don’t even put up new gems like Ted Lasso is more proof of it’s sad slow descent into irrelevancy than the move to Kinja itself.

The current AV Club seems to be going through a truly awkward identity crisis, like a high school dork unsuccessfully trying to hang out with the popular kids. They’ll post recaps of The Bachelor that get less than 10 comments, but turn their back on covering The Simpsons, a show that many of us associate with our…

In fairness to the Simpsons...the AV Club doesn’t really cover ANYTHING, anymore.

Nah, that’s definitely “Spice World”’s Richard E. Grant.

The median home value in 1996 was about $110,000. This year, it is about $300,000. The Simpsons have $200k in equity in their paid-for home. As a union worker, he has health benefits and retirement benefits (BTW, he would likely have those benefit as a non-union worker, especially in the energy industry—less than 5%…

On the set of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Spielberg, as played by Samberg, reminisces about growing up in Arizona.

Patty and Selma and Grandpa remain cheap baby sitting options, and in a pinch, I’m sure Homer would dump his kids on Flanders for an evening.

But his kids are going to remain kids indefinitely, which means significant childcare costs for more than the usual 18 years.

I would probably have Lisa down for a full ride scholarship to the college of her choice.

If what I’ve observed in the corporate world translated to cartoon Springfield, his incompetence would mean he would have been promoted several times by now and making an enviable salary doing his job badly.

The flip side is that homer, as a nuclear safety inspector of over 30 years, would almost definitely be making six figures. 

Yikes. This sounds like the kind of film Spielberg would announce his retirement upon completion.

Shhhh! We don’t talk about the secret string pulling cabal in public! This is why you’re never invited to the meetings.