Also - “Jedi” / “jidai” (period dramas)

I enjoyed the levels of this fun fact. 

Rashomon was made into The Outrage.

Fun fact - Kurosawa liked Sturges’ The Magnificent Seven a lot, and in fact Kurosawa, after seeing it, gave Sturges a gift of a samurai sword. I learned this from Hayley Mills’ recent memoir, and Hayley Mills would not lie to me. She has no reason to, I didn’t separate her and her twin sister during a divorce.

Star Wars was heavily influenced by Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress.

Yet another classic Kurosawa film was remade in the 60s as a western: Rashomon was made into The Outrage.

I think her sexually abusive mother who taught her how to be bulimic and forced her to audition when she never wanted to be an actress in the first place is the reason she isn’t a massive star right now. It’s not like bad experiences destroyed her love of acting. She always hated it and her mother forced and abused…

What should you want AV Club to write about? The July jobs report?

To relate a bit of pop culture news. You know, on this website that’s about people obsessing about pop culture?

Right? What was the point of that comment?

1000% it’s to avoid getting sued.  She’ll probably still get sued.

It’s such a vague term. How could we possibly guess who she means?

Disney winning the streaming wars rhymes a whole lot with Churchill’s “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the other one’s we’ve tried”.

X-year plans are genius! Think of how the USSR with its 5-year plans was a huge success! A 10-year plan must be twice as good!

I know things have gone downhill, but the site’s tagline is still “Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed.” This isn’t, like, out of bounds.

I’m familiar with some of what they’ve parodied and unfamiliar with others.
It’s better when you know what they’re doing, but still funny when you don’t.

I think it helps a bit to see the original, but - I watched the real Bagwan Shree Rajneesh documentary and then watched Documentary Now’s mockumentary, and I probably should have just seen one or the other. Because now I don’t remember what really happened in Oregon.

I dunno if this ad is gonna work the way they think. Im betting there’s an awful lot of pro-segregationists in Georgia.

God I would hate that. Having a legendary depiction of hero reduced to small cameos in movies to get the gang together seems so stupid.

DC needs to make these people iconic, and let Marvel have the interconnectedness and producing #allthethings. Find what your competition isn’t doing, and do it.