I mean, Isaac Hayes. You never know.

Like Denzel in Flight.

Yeah, I agree. My guess, based on nothing, is that they’d mine more humor from his reactions to strange things, not unlike Men In Black. If nothing else, we’d get him trying to answer questions about it being a “trans allegory” 20 years later.

He also mentions here (and in retrospect it feels like it should have been obvious) that if he had gotten the lead in The Matrix, they never would have cast Laurence Fishburne too. Apparently they were thinking Val Kilmer, which would would been a different, though not necessarily uninteresting, combination.

Sad. I was just about to keep not watching it.

Even if he wasn’t, since when does a fictional film’s portrayal of a real-life figure need to adhere strictly to the way they were in real life? No one would ever get upset about this unless there some virtue-signalling opportunity there (Bruce Lee, the female reporter in Richard Jewell, etc.). As far as I can tell,…

Why is Scarlett Johansson taking a role that a real Russian spy could have played?

Is this show funny? Like, does it at least attempt jokes?

You misspelled “girl who does peyote with Tony Soprano.”

This is sort of contrary to the spirit of the piece, but with a decade of hindsight: Does anyone else think he should have just kept hosting The Tonight Show 30 minutes later?

Is it ridiculous that I didn’t notice the thing about the baby? Probably setting myself up with this, but was it that obvious in the theater?

Don’t think this is a fair summary of the film at all, but this idea that Eastwood had some sort of ideological realignment *in his late 70s* is funny to me. As if the guy who directed those earlier films is a world away from this.

Good to see Jack Black finally going big with a character.

No pointless reference to the fact that he once dated a teenage girl? You’re slipping, AV Club.

Gold, Jerry?

It seemed like things were trending that way—the actor from Billions has been mentioned for a few years now as an example—but is there an end point that would satisfy the people calling this a half-measure?

What are the guesses on what the grade would have been if she hadn’t done the evil thing she did (defend a close friend)? I think A- at least.

clearly dismissive of black lives that matter in our Latin community

Dumb question, possibly, but when did the original show use a single-camera format? When he’s talking to the kids?

Others complain it’s now visually indistinguishable from Google’s other app logos.