Pretty sure this wasn’t the only federal case any of them heard all year. Or any year.

It was a ‘date movie’. In other words half the audience was there in the hope of getting laid later that might.

You MONSTER!

It should be pointed out that this is not what people in 1970 thought a ‘good’ movie looked like. Lets remember the top grossing film of 2000 was ‘How The Grinch Stole Christmas’ and NOBODY thought that was a good film, even at the time.

Tommy Lee Jones was only just narrowly beat out by Wilford Brimley as the namer for Wilford Brimley’s Disease. It’s the one where an actor was apparently born as a 57-year old man, but then just kind of sits at that age indefinitely.

This came out when I was in high school. Everyone, and I mean everyone, had to go see it, mostly because our girlfriends demanded we go see it. Many of us also had to read the book (thankfully a quick, short read) because our girlfriends had read it and insisted that we read it too. I think that it was some sort of…

I kind of agree with him though. I was a kid in the seventies and I can vividly remember the 50's resurgence that began back then. I think the whole country was just tired by that point and wanted to look back at what they thought was a better era.

Greatest Generation Returns From War Vowing to Birth Whiniest Generation

A lifetime of not sanctioning buffoonery will age you pretty quick.

This is terrible, Tom. And hurtful. Every year, dozens of beatific young women die of Ali McGraw’s Disease and despite decades of research we are still no closer to a cure. And pieces like this that downplay the very real effects -- husbands feeling bad, husbands moping, husbands seeing a decline in their racquetball…

“Love means never having to say you’re sorry.”

Obviously masses of people went to see this movie, but I was a college student myself at the time and everyone I knew considered it Hollywood claptrap. Still, of the 11 Popcorn Champs profiled so far, it is only the second one to feature ordinary contemporary life, and sometimes audiences are not looking for escape…

If only crowdfunding had been around circa 2004 so Tom Laughlin could’ve made the final proposed film in the series, Billy Jack’s Crusade to End the War in Iraq and Restore America to Its Moral Purpose.

I remember in the late ‘90s when Barry Lyndon was being shown at a local art theater, one of the alternative papers did a write up about it and called him “a human jar of mayonnaise”, which is an insult I deeply enjoyed and still periodically deploy about bland yet awful male actors.

We also need to collectively get our terminology straight - One Day at a Time is a reboot; Fuller House is a sequel.

“Current penchant for classic sitcom reboots” seems to over-sell it a little bit. There was Will & Grace (about to end) and Rosanne (a brief hit turned total debacle). I don’t count Fuller House because it’s mostly a new cast (which doesn’t stop it from being a “reboot”, but the premise of this article focusing on Frie…

Thank you for putting into words what I felt 20-some years ago. I was just angry that the culture at large was telling me that this was supposed to be funny.

I never thought the show was good, and that’s not because it was “problematic”. It was just the hackiest sitcommiest sitcom I thought possible, prior to being exposed to the even further lows created by Chuck Lorre. Seinfeld had a point of view and a thematic interest in the unspoken rules of social interaction.…

Has anyone ever written a blistering argument for BuzzFeed’s awfulness? Surely some has.

When I turn the TV on at 10PM, it’s usually on Nickelodeon from where my kids were watching it earlier, and Friends is usually on. I casually watched it back in the day and thought it was “pretty good”, but now I’m just like, “Good god, how did anybody ever watch this crap? How does anybody still watch this crap?”