The Brothers Chaps were some of the most astute cultural observers working in any media at the time. Their parodies were consistently great because they not only nailed their targets' idiosyncracies beat for beat, they did so with an unmistakable affection that never approached mean-spiritedness.
I've been waiting for the Homestar Runner nostalgia thinkpieces to start rolling out, and I'm glad they have. This series deserves the sort of Revered Pop Cultural Artifact status afforded to Rocky and Bullwinkle or The Muppet Show. It was just as culturally savvy as either of those shows, and it also shared their…
Not that he's great in it or anything, but the failings of Cool World are not on Brad Pitt.
I absolutely loathe Minnesota winters but the rest of the year here makes up for it.
My list is almost a direct inversion of yours except I'd put Boogie Nights after Hard Eight.
Gravity seems to be one of those instances where a lot of people aren't satisfied with not liking it themselves. They have to make certain that anyone who did like it is made aware of what an irredeemable imbecile they are for doing so.
I mean, I didn't expect it to be good, but I thought it would at least be cool to look at. But man, is it poorly done. At no point did I believe that Brad Pitt or Gabriel Byrne was doing anything but pretending to interact with a cartoon that would be added in later. Most of the time the human actors don't even come…
If you're already accustomed to the winters, I can think of no reason not to embrace the Twin Cities metro region. I love it here dearly.
Come on up. We'd be happy to have you.
Started watching Cool World with my wife and my mom. Turns out Cool World is nigh unwatchable, at least with my mom. It's shoddily constructed, inanely plotted and not even well drawn. Good soundtrack, though.
Even if he does like it in the end, I don't know that the ends justify the means of bullying and coercion. And @avclub-41e23e24ee2670c4128cd7e5e5ee42ab:disqus , I think you're casting Cruz as the guy who does not like green eggs and ham. I'm casting Cruz as Sam I Am, the incessant pest who's willing to inflict endless…
And now I'll have "Are ya icky, are ya sticky, are ya hot as anything?" stuck in my head all day.
"The Dishwasher" is probably my favorite of their songs. On the surface it seems like another one of their goofy lunacies but I find it genuinely chilling.
Of course, an alternate interpretation of Green Eggs and Ham is that it's about badgering someone to do something he really doesn't want to do and being so relentless about it that you finally break his spirit and force him to give in. In which case, Cruz is pretty much on point.
I read a synopsis suggesting that the woman at the end is actually the young mother the Nazis dragged into their truck earlier, but the kid's head is so scrambled he's projecting his friend's visage onto her. That makes sense to me. Amidst all of the horrors of that film, it's the multi-tiered torture of that mother…
Oy, I shudder even to think of her.
The movie or the Scott?
That was one of my first thoughts too, but I was never a big fan. Although I must admit it's stuck with me over the decades too, so good on you, Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Man, is Magic an odd film. Hopkins is incredible. Such a spooky little creep. And of course I appreciate any film where a deeply unappealing ventriloquist becomes the toast of the New York arts scene.