You get that this is making fun of Mr. Burns for being evil, right?  He is literally punching down, and showing what a terrible person he is.  If you’re laughing at the Irishman, you didn’t get the joke.

I haven't watched Land of the Dead in a long time, but for me it was an event when it came out - the zombie Renaissance hadn't gotten old yet, and here was George Romero with an absurd cast making a resolutely old fashioned, political zombie movie that also indulged his love of ridiculous vehicles. I even had the demo…

I like how 1-800-AAA-HELP looks a phone number turned into panicked scream.

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The appropriate game metaphor for that game would have obviously been a Battle Chess slaughter where everyone on the Jets is systematically murdered. They should really have versions of that ready to go for every matchup if it turns into a blowout. 

That was filmed in my old hometown in central TX. The production company added a bunch of fake flowers to bushes as part of the set dressing.

AH THE GOOD OL DK’S. BACK WHEN PUNKS WERENT AFRIAD TO SPEAK TRUTH TO DEMOCRATS

So true, that is perhaps the worst “pitching” ever recorded...

I always took that opening scene as pure cinematic dream-logic - it’s not clear whether Merrin is seeking out relics of the demon or if he just happens to find them, but either way it establishes a self-contained visual language that the rest of the film can reference. It’s like a good comedy that keeps adding…

Just had a vivid mental picture of Angelina Jolie LUNGING across a table to strangle George to death.

The only connection I have to that book/film, is my sister had to give a presentation on the themes/meaningful concepts of the book and its illustration of the modern perception of “The Monster” as opposed to the classic perception. Basically: Why are we so horny for monsters now? This would have been fine, if…

I loved Al Lettieri in just about everything he was in. The Getaway, Mr. Majestyk, his foaming at the mouth raging was just so great. It was a shame he died so young. The casting in the McQueen Getaway was nearly perfect, except for Ali McGraw, who is not only a terrible actress in anything I’ve ever seen her in, I…

I would watch the hell out of that.

This is a good point. I think that the show is trying to say that back in 1492 people faced *clearer* moral decisions since the world was not yet as globalized and so the butterfly chain impact of a decision might only carry 5 steps instead of 50. But I would agree that it’s a weak argument.

I think the big reveal will end up being that the point system was never real; each and every person’s afterlife is just going on a quest until they discover the meaning of goodness or whathaveyou, and then they get into the Good Place. The show was just us witnessing those 4 people’s quest. 

I looked at that twist as just a low-key way to introduce the very real idea that there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism. Specifically when it turns out people lose points for buying a tomato.

I think the point isn’t exactly that there were fewer moral choices, but that they were, in a way, simpler.

The points system was ridiculous from the beginning, and I’m sure it will get upended in some way. But a lot of the reason it was so bad is because of that modernity and connection stuff superceding actual good acts. See: Began to compose social media post about David Bowie dying and then thought “The world doesn’t…

Not forgotten by me either! Certainly not the Coens’ best (and maybe their worst), but just watching Tom Hanks and JK Simmons hamming it up together, doing that classic blowhard-who-thinks-he’s-smarter-than-he-is Coen character (typically played by George Clooney) is too much fun.

I LOL’d.