I think very quickly, between Helen Hunt being in every movie in the fall of 2000, and the general disgust at the idea of Jack Nicholson being still being a viable romantic lead/the backlash to so many older men/younger women romances.

It's happened to me a couple of times. I don't know if I set off any red flags, but it is pretty humiliating.

"Sword in the Stone" was very successful, but Disney is its own animal, and they lopped off a large part of the Arthurian mythos.

I think there's also just more inherent humor in a bunch of "manly men" petitioning for a sitcom (And, being a not particularly profitable sitcom, essentially a handout) to be renewed.

Also, a trial run for Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth.

That's why you press the water spigot first, dude.

If you read Jay Mohr's book, he talks about how when Grammer did SNL,Mohr and Dave Attell were the only ones that read his biography, and at the pitch meeting was a sketch about a shark attack.

I don't think it's super deep—mostly that Kelsey Grammer is a republican.

I remember reading he was mean to Martin Short. Martin Short!

Guy got Annette O'Toole to fall for him, so he's probably a very charming people person.

Also, while Flash Gordon was hardly Star Wars in success, it's remained something of an evergreen fixture in its own fashion.

Oh, I didn't say bigger, I said "better class". As in, Washington's probably not as crude and awkward about it.

Well, 1) I would say there's definitely levels to all of it—Affleck's behavior is bad, but Polanksi's is worse, but they're pushed as part of the same "Men can get away with being real shits" narrative.

I've seen a lot of articles condemning Affleck and his win, but very few bringing up a suitable alternative. Like, once Denzel Washington (who, while a higher class of fuckboy, is still a fuckboy) won the SAG, people were complacently backing that horse, despite the statistical difficulty. It's not that I don't think…

I don't know if Doss did that in real life. It's not impossible—the acceptable way to court was radically different ten years ago, let alone 70.

Oh, not irl. But there was a scene where they're almost hit by a car, and they're shocked and he uses he opportunity to kiss her ad and she's like "What the hell?" I mean, tit's depicted as wrong, but not a dealbreaker, and the result of awkwardness more tha predatory etitlement.

I mean, I get not wanting to award a guy with a gross history but people really didn't get their ducks in a row on stopping it.

Yeah, I'm of the "The Oscars have absolutely no collateral over Trump voters", plus, it seems kind of gross to shit it down now that a record number of black people are invited.

The setting/predominately African American cast is the only thing that really makes it distinct from a golden age Hollywood romcom. It really is like the Godfather in the way it combines the best elements two different eras and creates something timeless.

"Coneheads" really hasn't aged a day, thematically.