I agree about the mischaracterization, although I would say that most people interested enough in Henson to watch the doc already knew about the family tension. It’s not like that has ever been a secret.

Yeah, it’s kind of silly. As a huge Henson fan I have kind of seen or heard or read everything relevant already. This is really day late, dollar short.

I will say this: You’ve made a fairly compelling argument for the inclusion of earnestness in this particular case and I could see it for The People’s Joker as well given the background of the filmmaker and their stated intentions. I don’t think it applies to Skinamarink and there are assuredly other use cases where…

Let me amend that, then.

Between Furiosa and The Fall Guy getting rave reviews yet disappointing in the box office it may be time to admit that the movies themselves are not the problem. It’s the theater experience, which a LOT of people complain about between the cost and inconvenience. There’s a lot of talk about how these movies failed but…

We’ve known about the possible prequel since Fury Road itself. If we’re gonna play the game of pretending to know the demands of fandom, I’ll go ahead and state that *I* and everyone I know who saw Fury Road were looking forward to this and were disappointed that it took so long. The development time was a bummer. I…

100%. By the time I realized that I had used the wrong word I couldn’t go back and edit. C’est la vide.

Totally fair! But I want the AV Club et al to stop using earnestness in their analyses. Earnestness is both something most of us can’t actually measure (none of these critics claim psychic powers) and not qualitatively meaningful. As you point out with Breen’s output, the man is a BAD filmmaker. But he sure does mean…

“sourced for free”

I disagree. Rulebooks and modules do a lot of the setup work, true, but without the actual *players* to do the forward-moving plot work there’s not really any story to speak of. It would take actual writers. Or an algorithm that rips off writers.

All due respect to the character and his fandom, but PLEASE FUCKING NO MORE DRIZZT GODDAMIT.

And if I’m not mistaken the same week or a week before/after the Super Mario Bros movie. It’s obviously not a perfect circle Venn Diagram of target audience but it’s close.

Fair. But that still essentially gives the movie a pass. Which I think is bullshit. Bad art is bad art, I don’t care if the artist *usually* makes good art. And the article itself leans heavily on the idea that Korine is “earnest” in his effort. I’ve seen other AV Club reviews and articles about outsider art that use…

This is just fucking Neil Breen shit. You know who is 100% genuine, 100% authentic and sincere in his batshit, awful filmmaking? Neil goddam Breen. And while I enjoy partaking in the madness that is watching his godawful bullshit, I don’t pretend that it’s anything BUT bullshit. I would really love it if movie critics…

Not at all an excuse for the behavior or the thought process behind it buuuut he’s well known to have suffered bipolar disorder all his life. From the description it sounds like this might have been a manic episode. Plenty of bipolar folks don’t go weird cishet old white guy but still, might explain things a bit.

Nope. That’s just a rephrasing of the same sentiment, which is that anyone who can “get on its wavelength” will enjoy it and think it’s good. I’m against the idea that understanding = enjoyment/appreciation. It’s entirely possible for someone to understand a piece of art and still think it doesn’t work. For several…

This is such rat-brained bullshit. According to this utter nonsense, the people who made Fury Road, who have the IP rights to Mad Max, were determined to make a post-apocalypse movie that was decidedly NOT Mad Max, and realized that people would only see it if it was a legacy sequel to a series 20+ years in the past.…

It’s interesting that you point out “had been writing for a while”. I didn’t imply otherwise. Someone can do a thing for 20 years and not be good at it. His adaptation of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men was more admired for his attempt than the material itself. (Maybe if he wasn’t so beholden to the source…

I got to see it in the original run with one of my high school buddies at our town's drive-in. (Which was sadly demolished a decade or so ago.) And then we caught it again for the 30th or 35th anniversary, I forget which. It's a good one to see projected.

There's also some semantic confusion as phrased. Did Andre fear *career* retaliation or *physical* retaliation? He has been pretty public about getting anxiety over Knoxville attacking him with his usual shtick aka tasing, ball taps, head shaving, etc. I don't know that Knoxville has enough industry juice to affect…