Sure, but it’s not a Silver Surfer movie. He’s not a core member of the Fantastic Four. This will be the second time that a FF movie uses the Silver Surfer and it just seems... I dunno, like maybe they should let the team be themselves for at least one f’ing movie? I know he was in the sequel but even that I didn’t…

Here’s the thing, Dino: While you are *technically* correct, who gives a fuck? Following was barely released into theaters and we only know about it now because Criterion released it on disc years after it debuted. Honor the spirit, not the letter.

This is a terrific list! I’m happy to hear that Only God Forgives is enjoying some appreciation these days. It’s a divisive movie, especially as you point out as a follow-up to Drive. It’s almost like Refn and Gosling both wanted to immediately comically undercut the prior film. I like to watch them as a double…

Mandy certainly made a bigger splash but it’s hard to argue which indie Cage film should go on a list like this. I probably agree that it should’ve been Pig given the *relative* popularity (heavy emphasis on the asterisks) of Mandy but [shrug].

Yes, it launched the career of one of our filmmakers. It sure did.

I love Garner. I am ambivalent about the Surfer. I am also not sure they really need to be dragging yet MORE fucking Marvel nonsense into this attempted reboot of a reboot of a title. FFS, can we just get an establishment movie made and not synergy blast all over the fucking thing?

And if I thought she was using it in the semantically correct way it wouldn’t raise my hackles. Hackles which I already stated up front were raised as it’s a biased subject for me. It seems to me based on the placement of the word and the fact that Garland himself doesn’t appear to use the word (notice that it appears…

I wouldn’t even call the earnestness of the review into question so much as asking the reviewer and those who might feel similarly to apply their critical eye equally. And maybe they do! But aliks invokes the spirit of punk rock and Dada to this movie in a way that I wonder if they do to Breen. Who as far as I can…

Where in my post did I suggest they do?

Not sure which “it” you mean since my reaction is to the bulk of Emma’s tastes. Not a fan of Robinson despite getting a laugh at a few sketches (I find that he frequently overstays a joke I *do* like until I no longer like it). Not a fan of Fielder (Nathan for You has its moments but everything after has felt like art…

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I may injure myself clicking on the “let people enjoy things” meme over and over and over and over and over...

Yeah, I actually believe that to be HIGHLY possible/likely. I think some of why the final books are taking so long is Martin trying to figure out how to avoid the hate the series got because he knows damn well he was headed there initially.

But tell me this: Do you think Leigh Monson would give Fateful Findings the kind of generous reading that they have granted The People’s Joker? Does Vera Drew’s semi-autobiographical approach to the material and identity as a trans artist mean giving her more critical consideration than white cishet loon auteur Neil…

As grim as it is and as much as his career was so much more than this, I also couldn’t NOT think of this.

Amen to that. I fucking HATE the Great Mouse Satan that is Disney but there’s no way I want that piece of shit chode Peltz to take it over. Even token progressive policies are *something*.

Outside of Galaxy Quest I could take or leave Tim Allen. I just think it’s weird of you to fully admit that you’re not American, that Home Improvement was quintessentially American, and then act “befuddled” by the popularity of the show. And I also think you add unnecessary coloration by making it remotely about the…

Surely wit of this caliber is a solid argument in favor of human creativity.

It’s all good. It just underscores why I don’t like talking about the movie. It creates a lot more friction than it deserves given how little influence it had on pop culture or gender dynamics relative to the amount of blather it generates. And it’s a touchy subject for me because of the tension it created in my…

His “mark” rate is not 100% but the vast majority of people he pulls this shit on are either obviously above the ridiculousness (lots of Ali G marks are decent but clueless people) or genuinely awful shitheads who have earned getting fucked with. I don’t really give a tin shit if Rudy Giuliani came to a fake interview…