You just hate Red Letter Media because the dude read your thing in a “dumb guy” voice in one of their videos

I don’t know if this movie is really that bad or not (I don’t really vibe with AV Club’s current contributors) but lemme just bemoan Jason Reitman’s career. 10 years ago, I really thought that he was going to be the guy to keep the low budget, medium brow Hollywood film alive.

Here’s why I think Ghostbusters (1984) works so well. Venkman is slimy, lazy and cares not a jot about ghosts. Faced with maddening, Lovecraftian horrors, ancient, vengeful gods and a being as tall as a skyskraper, he thinks its all a joke and he’s still looking to get laid. Thats what you can’t recapture. A man for…

The original Ghostbusters worked because it had Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray in their comedic prime and...nope, that’s pretty much it. Even Ghostbusters II was a flabby, pale copy of the original that coasted way too much on nostalgia.

Ghostbusters’ appeal was its irreverence—it understood that any ghost-hunting business would operate like a bunch of particularly nerdy exterminators, and that the kind of people who would actually set out to be a ghostbuster would be various flavors of crackpot. The tone of quivering Spielbergian reverence towards…

Hey, it’s actually exactly what the trailer promised! That’s...disappointing. 

And we’ve no guarantee that in a year the PS5 will be any easier to find.  This shortage issue has existed since launch with very little change.  This is pretty much unheard of in past generations.

Seems kinda shitty when it’s still so difficult to buy a ps5 right now 

There’s at least one other familiar name in the background, suggesting that perhaps all of the Wachowski’s films have taken place in the Bound Cinematic Universe.

What bothered me most about Wonder Woman is that they were afraid of looking like they were copying Captain America, so they switched out the WWII origin for WWI. Which, fine, but instead of taking the opportunity to depict a much murkier, more morally ambiguous conflict they end up telling a straightforward “good…

For a substantial segment of the population, the drawbacks of seeing a movie in the theater outweighed the advantages, pre-pandemic. First of all about 10 years ago I stopped going to any theater at all where I couldn’t reserve seats. Then there’s travel, cost, the random chance that someone sitting near me is some…

Wonder Woman 1984 was so bad it did indeed seem like a fake movie, so I can’t wait for the theatrical release of the real thing.

While he was most likely stating that exactly, you have to pretend you’re a person of color and you hear a white dude using a loaded phrase (often rolled out when in opposition of equality measures like integration, affirmative action, etc.) you can see a lack of tact. Even more if the marketing efforts for the film…

Wow. Amazon being underhanded and unethical. Never thought I'd see the day.

This is a weird article because the best they can do against DC is the old Alan Moore Watchmen stuff? Back in 2017 Jim Starlin said he got a larger check from DC for one of his minor characters appearing in Batman v Superman than he did for all the Marvel movies up until that point.

For the life of me I don’t know why they’re trying to turn the fucking Addams Family into some sexy and violent reimagining. Literally the entire point of the comic strip and earlier TV shows was that they were creepy weirdos on the outside and kind-hearted on the inside, and outside of fucking Thing there was hardly…

CZJ and Guzman’s casting are the only promising things I have heard about this, but “post-2000 Tim Burton product” already eliminated any potential for excitement in me. Then you add in that it sounds like multiple other teen Netflix/CW shows, AND its being run by the guys who ran Smallville and its like diarrhea on…

Pretty much. This little corner of pop culture has decided Jeremy Renner is a punchline. I get it. The best case scenario is that Jeremy Renner is kind of a weird dude. I don’t care. I like bows and arrows and I especially like the idea of non-enhanced humans hanging tough with super powered Avengers. And I’ll even…

We really need to stop using this animation style. It looked cheap on a flash player in 2008 and it looks cheap now

how can av club be so snarky all the time but NOT be snarky about how bad len wiseman’s die hard movies and just call him ‘series veteran’.