I’d call that the “Hocus Pocus/Space Jam” effect. That is movies that aren’t good still get embraced by people who were too young to distinguish good from bad when they first saw them, but older people recognized them as dreck from the start. “Spaceballs” got mediocre reviews at the time and “Men in Tights” terrible…

“This trailer is a who’s who of the funniest people Hollywood has to offer.”

As has been noted, this really looks a lot more like scripted Drunk History than a follow-up to the original movie. But I still hope it’s at least fun.

It is probably good that there is no “Jews in Space” since at least one congresswoman took that to be a documentary.

You clearly don’t interact with a lot of 55+ white men, because this shit is their jam. I only started watching it in the first place because my boss told me that it was “the best show of all time” and I kinda have some leftover 90's nostalgia for Costner. It’s fine. It’s basically hours and hours of people just…

Probably. But that streamer probably has like 20 viewers, whereas AI Seinfeld is a huge internet fad watched by hundreds of thousands of people, so it can’t fly under the radar like many can.

I guarantee some streamer is on Twitch right now saying these exact same things without being hit with a ban.

As someone that lives in NYC nothing bothers me more as when they try to pass off, oh say Toronto as NYC. But what really bothers me is when they don’t even bother is when the subway trains look nothing like the actual subway. But again, that’s just me personally. Most people won’t even know or think twice about it.…

“Sometimes, you do things without thinking. Then you are called out for it. Then you get it. It’s why the Razzies were created in the first place.”

In fairness, that’s a pretty good mea culpa.

“Then you are called out for it. Then you get it. It’s why the Razzies were created in the first place.”

Ideal way for it to end is them to nominate themselves. They win the final razzies and exit in a blast of self-consuming loathing. 

Great first step. Now just cancel the Razzies.

I think a lot of this is just selection bias and category error and the fact that most horror movies, while fun and scary, simply aren’t very good in terms of the very specific criteria for artistic merit that the Academy voters are looking for.

You can’t expect everyone to have heard of obscure, niche genre films like The Exorcist and The Omen.

Clift, who you may recognize from contributing to The A.V. Club in the past

“especially when European burial grounds, like the Paris catacombs, and accepted religious rituals, like the Pope ingesting symbolic blood and flesh, have the potential to be so much scarier.”

“Clift addresses why the burial ground trope, usually dated back to the publication of The Amityville Horror and featured in King’s Pet Sematary and The Shining, exists to invent, distort, and mystify actual Indigenous practices”

Not a great trope, but dude’s written close to 100 books, so that’s about 2%.

I’ve always perceived it as a horror trope steeped in American guilt, as a form of generational revenge for indigenous genocide. 

“I think she’s entitled to her opinion, she’s entitled to say what she feels.”

Um, just to be clear, J.K. Rowling has never had her opinion silenced. She’s perfectly free to say whatever thing bops into her 100s-of-million-dollar brain. She has, and continues to do so.

The problem for her, Brian, is that people actually…