Exactly. I thought it was a completely toothless satire when I saw it in theaters. Everything was so obvious and predictable. Maybe if I watched it now, I’d like it more, but it felt completely flat back then.

I’d argue that Up is one of their most daring films because it manages to not have any real rules about how it’s world works, establishes nothing but Carl’s backstory, and we still buy it because it grounded itself so well at the start.

The montage is achingly real. Then, after grounding you, it increases the strange…

“I will bring it back for SCIENCE!”

Not everyone wants to adopt, and it’s not a simple or easy thing for most people. Please don’t ever say this to a real-life couple dealing with infertility.

In the commentary, Docter talks about how he made sure there was no huge life-changing event that prevented them from ever taking the trip, and it was simply that “life got in the way” as it does for so many people. So we can identify with them even more.

It really is remarkable how many people here, ostensibly hired because of their decision to pursue a career as writers, are actually really bad at writing. McCarter isn’t clever, he has no discernible writing style, and its like he’s not even sure what it is he’s trying to say. He’s shit-posting, but its just a big…

God, someone put this website out of its misery already. 

The scene in “Niagara” is supposed to be dumb and embarrassing and cheesy. That’s justification for exactly why Jim and Pam escape to get married in private on the boat before the public ceremony. Jesus, Jim even explains it in the episode...

“I bought those boat tickets the day I saw that YouTube video. I knew we’d…

For fuck’s sake, Reid, go outside and get some sun. Yes, I know we’re all in quarantine and whatnot, so I’m not saying go downtown and start licking doorknobs, but maybe just open a window or something. Do you have a patio? How about a courtyard? Go stand out there for a while. Soak up some Vitamin D, take a deep…

Howard Hughes!! I worked there for a couple years. Best job I ever had. I really miss this place and think about all the time. This article really brought back a lot of memories. I didn’t know the covid did them in, very sad day...

I worked at a Blockbuster, and what I can say is that the quality of the selection was dramatically affected by the location and the manager. The one I worked in was in a kind of upper-middle class area of my town, with a lesbian film-buff manager, and it had a surprisingly good “indie” section. It was the kind of…

Because no one wants to see the weak and powerless made fun of.

Oh I’m aware of the saucer people.

Clearly these creatures are reverse vampires, in league with the Rand corporation.

Seems like a bad day to be a popular entity with some takes on capitalism.

Between this and Logan Lucky, Daniel Craig has become the go-to for bad, over-cooked, southern accents. I’m not sure how or why that happened and I never would have guessed it could, but I am glad it did.

“How one might be familiar with Muggsy Bogues and not Allen Iverson is a feat of the mind I’ll never understand.”

At the end of the college football season any team with a .500 record or better can go to a bowl. There are a handful of good ones and then 8,000 terrible ones that feature the fifth best MAC team playing the right best mountain west team. They are all sponsored by varying levels of random companies.

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