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Monsieur Spade was a really great series up to its catastrophically horrible finale.  I’m still trying to wrap my head around what they were thinking with that one.

I never do extra work anymore because the bosses come to expect it. 

Was it? I watched the first episode.  Didn’t hate it.  Didn’t finish the season, but I find it hard to believe it’s worse than how bad original Dexter wound up.

Not sure why people continue to think that Batman-without-Batman is a good idea.

I’ve been using that shorthand for Colin Farrell for years. Total character actor. Fortunately, his looks are fading.

Never seen that sketch before, but it’s the most Julio Torres sketch of all time.

I actually think it’s stronger than Blazing Saddles.  In Saddles, it’s a much “bigger” joke that pretty much derails the entire movie.  Spaceballs keeps it tighter and more focused. 

While Spaceballs is not nearly at their level, I think an excellent lesson of when movies should quitewhile they’re ahead can be learned by examining the dual paths of Ghostbusters and Galaxy Quest.

The face that there was a Spaceballs cartoon is ALMOST as weird as the fact that there was a Police Academy cartoon. 

The video tape bit is genius.  The rest of the movie is intermittently funny, IMO.  But I’m glad you’re still getting laughs out of it. 

Very misleading advertising!  Ugh. 

Agree completely. The movie is only fitfully funny with some real groaners. The best jokes have little or nothing to do with Star Wars. The most inspired gag is the bad guys consulting the video tape of Spaceballs to find out what happened to the heroes.

There’s never been a planet Janet hasn’t seen. 

Yeah, probably.

Now all we need is for George Lucas to actually make one of his long promised/threatened “Weird/small/personal” movies.  If Francis finally actually did it, George, what are you waiting for?

Will this be a “bigger waste of directorial talent” than “Jack”?  Somehow I don’t think so. 

I’d knock Inside Out and (blasphemy!) even The Incredibles out of the top ten. 

Yeah, Soul was a big whiff for me.

The Incredibles and Inside Out have always been overrated and Up isn’t fairly average once you get past that extraordinary opening sequence. Toy Story, despite being groundbreaking, isn’t even the best movie in its franchise.

That’s not actually what “The Force Awakens” says. It literally says he “walked away from everything.” That’s literally giving up.