You've got it wrong … you don't toss it out, the studio that produced the remake FORIBLY STEALS AND DESTROYS it. After all, the only purpose of remakes is to eliminate and corrupt all memories of the original.

Yeah! Kurosawa's classic should be LEFT ALONE!

And yet Jon Bois still has a massive following.

He already has "Mute" lined up next with a March shoot. So even if "Warcraft" is a catastrophe, he'll at least have one more movie in the pipeline.

"Why don't people make serious, grown-up movies anymore?"
*somebody makes a serious, grown-up movie*
"It's nothing but pretentious Oscar Bait!"

He's listed as a co-creator, and in the buildup said he'd have more direct involvement in this show than he did in BE. How much of that is true is debatable, I guess, but that still means he had to give approval to the show's depictions of drug use.

Yeah, but you'd think a guy who almost died from his addiction to the stuff would want a bit more nuance or realism given in how its use is portrayed.

I'm really curious what Martin Scorsese thinks of how the show portrays cocaine as basically candy for grown-ups. It's not like "The Wolf of Wall Street" where it was constantly played for ridiculous laughs… this show genuinely seems to believe that guys like Richie can differentiate between "use" and "abuse".

I'm not usually in the habit of talking back to the TV, but that CBGB nod was a definite "Oh, come ON!" moment from me.

Guess I was wrong with my prediction that Jagger Jr. would be killed off. Close, but no cigar.

I imagine they'll focus more on pop culture zombification and less on the actual book burning idea.

I'm not really digging the design (something about the teeth and arms is off-putting to me), but I'm always interested in a new Godzilla movie, and the idea of American and Japanese film series running concurrently is really cool.

Critics don't poo-poo lowbrow comedy (Paul Feign and Adam McKay do broad comedy that critics love), they pooh-pooh BADLY MADE lowbrow comedies, which just happen to be a hefty chunk of them. People think "stupid comedies" have to be stupidly made. They don't. Smart execution of stupid jokes make it a better experience…

No.

Counter-counterpoint: self-described "anticomedy" has become increasingly popular (especially on Twitter) because it's a lot easier to just say odd shit or state falsehoods in a deadpan manner than it is to actually construct jokes or make meaningful observations.

My attitude towards these kinds of comedians is similar to what Roger Ebert thought of deliberately "bad" movies like "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra"… if you're aiming for unfunny and accomplishing it, that doesn't automatically make it funny.

I'm still holding out hope for an antihero cable drama about the rise of antihero cable dramas.

In those cases, "persona" is largely used as a shield against criticism. It's like those internet "comedians" who say, "it's not me, it's a CHARACTER I play who just happens to share my name, appearance, personality, etc." Forgetting that they're still accountable for writing and presenting the material the…

Not to mention the limited series from Steve McQueen. Steve McQueen!!!
Sounds like they're putting all of their eggs in the "Westworld" basket.

Also known as "Ricky Gervais Syndrome"