I think his style is malleable enough to fit into the MCU.  When many of us think of Raimi we probably think of Evil Dead, but he’s done other types of films.  He did Simple Plan which is a straight thriller and For Love of the Game which is a schmaltzy sports drama.  Drag Me To Hell is much more of a straight horror…

I think that this is down to the studio.  From what I heard, they shoehorned the two villains into it, which made the film a bit of a mess structurally. 

Raimi directed one of the best superhero movies ever with Spiderman 2.  So it would be nice to see him take on the Marvel Universe. 

It’s been a long time since I saw Breakfast Club, but doesn’t that just amount to opening up emotionally and trying on a little more makeup? I think we can criticize that some from a 2020 perspective but it seems like much less than the jarring wholesale reinvention that Sandy goes through in the final scene of…

I did, but the article seems to misidentify Spartacus as the final straw, whereas I believe it was the first, or one of the first, ones to break the blacklist.  Prior to this, blacklisted writers had been used, but only under pseudonyms or through the use of fronts.  It was the public identification of Trumbo, and the…

I get what you’re saying that the comedic payoff is Jason Biggs ejaculating before he can do anything and thus getting humiliated. And I supposed you’re right that they may have been trying to undermine that sort of adolescent male fantasy by doing that. But the way the whole thing plays out makes it problematic.…

The transgressive stuff on Sunny usually works because they’re punching up, not down.  Take the “implication” scene, for example, which is in some ways very transgressive.  It works because they’re making fun of Dennis as a rapist.  It’s not making a joke of “ha ha women get raped” but making a joke out of the twisted…

Yeah. Among it’s other sins it’s not really funny. It’s basically just an excuse to have a hot girl semi naked. Even at the time I remember thinking what’s wrong with this girl that she’s behaving like a porn actress?

I don’t know that I’d describe the anti-semitism plot as that “serious” except in that anti-semitism is wrong.  The bit I remember most from that is that the bigoted character is an idiot and thinks that the anti-semitic slur is “kite”.

There’s also the panty raid, and the boys using spy cameras to see the unsuspecting girls naked.

Summer Nights isn’t the bad part in Grease. The “did she put up a fight” is really just one line and it comes not from Danny, the hero, but Kanicky, who is supposed to be kind of an asshole.

Wasn’t that because it was about killing people and it was released right after Parkland?

I don’t remember much problematic in Breakfast Club. And part of the whole point of that film is that all the characters enter the story as seeming embodiments of a high school stereotype and over the course of the film we, and they, learn that they’re all more complicated.

I think you misunderstand the dynamic going on. For one thing, American Pie wasn’t made by Boomers, but by Generation X. The idea of the Baby Boomers rebelling against their upbringing also seems off. Most of them really grew up in the 60s, and did their rebelling then. But while the 50s was stereotyped as conformist…

And it really commits the cardinal sin that it isn’t even funny.  Even at the time, the scene stands out as not really that funny, but more about the titilation factor of seeing Shannon Elizabeth semi-nude.  It’s not like Jim fucking the pie, or the great reversal where we find out that Alyson Hannigan’s nerd-girl is…

He also produced and starred in Spartacus, which I believe is the first film to break the Hollywood Blacklist by publicly crediting a blacklisted writer, in this case Dalton Trumbo.

The problem is that the joke here is really at the Shannon Elizabeth character’s expense. 

I’ve seen that claim about Bernie’s campaigning before but haven’t seen independent numbers on it. Regardless, Bernie treated Clinton badly by continuing to campaign after it was impossible for him o win the nomination. Clinton endorsed Obama two days after that happened in 08. Sanders took four or five weeks IIRC.…

I’m not sure what you find so funny.  If anything you just sort of proved my point.  Sanders supporters seem to think he’s beyond reproach and that any criticism of him is, by definition, invalid.  Clinton’s criticisms aren’t ad hominem attacks.  They go directly to Sanders’ qualifications for office.  She’s making…

I’m not saying that there’s not legitimate reason for her, or anyone, to criticize Clinton.  But the way she did it was just stupid and unproductive.  Like you say, she let her emotions get the better of her.