Compare this with that ridiculous bit at the end of ASM2 with the Rhino in his mech suit and the kid standing up to him. Some might see this as an awesome moment, but let’s be real here: even without the suit, Rhino could turn the kid into a human stain. And no one in the assembled crowd pulls the kid to safety or…

Opening night, stuffed to the gills (went with a youth group). There was this weird kid next to me imitating the stuff on screen. He reminded me of the goggles kid in A Christmas Story. And oh, the noise, noise, noise, noise!

Except for the ‘cocaine’ line which caught me by surprise, I didn’t laugh once at the pilot. Maybe you need to be attuned into the 30 Rock style (never got into it), but it seemed like the lines had the cadence of jokes (to paraphrase another NBC show) without the burden of actually being funny. The annoying…

I watched the entire run because I loved the premise. The show was okay, but it felt like the following conversation showed up with minimal variations roughly five times an episode:

Wanting a protagonist (and a child, at that) to not be human garbage isn’t as big an ask as you make it seem.

You’re really going after me and not the wacko that listed the movie in the first place? Who does that help?

I strongly disagree with Cuties. And yes, I actually watched the film with the expectation that the people making a stink about it have only gone as far as viewing the trailer.

The way I hear it, that’s just what went down. Columbus vetted the parents of the child actors and they were all good people. I’m sure the Kit Culkin situation left him with battle scars.

I don’t hate this movie anywhere near as much as most do (it’s a good Jim Carrey movie, but a deplorable Dr. Seuss movie), but I can’t not give you a star. Great comment.

Sweet Jesus, that would’ve been boss. Burton and Danny Elfman even appeared in a mid-90s TNT special about the original cartoon (hosted by Phil Hartman!).

I can’t help but think that it made a huge impression on Damien Chazelle.

You can teach an old dog new tricks, but you can’t teach Madonna to act.

Again?

I think so, Brain, but I prefer Space Jelly.

Wonderful (and woefully underrated) movie. Bookended by some solid emotional beats and stuffed with great gags. One of Danny Elfman’s less-talked-about-but-still-damn-good scores, too.

The show may well be one of the best ever TV spinoffs of an animated movie. The mythology they build off of the film is awe-inspiring. Please give it a chance.

Jessie was a good addition, in her moments of joy and scenes like “You don’t forget kids like Emily, but they forget you.”

Didn’t see it at the time, but I caught up with it later on. Roland Emmerich fully bought into his own hype after ID4. I like Matthew Broderick, but he did not belong in this role and even he seemed to realize this. The CGI looks crappy and then there’s the pathetically hacky ‘humor’ (Animal’s wife is a shrew! No one…

This reminds me of a Patton Oswalt bit where he talked about Halloween decorations becoming “a CSI on every lawn”; “What kind of blowjob is this guy not getting at home where he’s like, ‘I gotta show where the neckbone snapped’?”.

“I had to keep you awake long enough so that when you finally went to sleep...you’d never wake up again!”