What a lovely day in the AVClub when we can get both Isla Fisher AND Amy Adams stories.
I don’t blame Mac Summers for being pissed. He wasn’t told about the scope of the project. I still remember an interview where he said he suffered from OCD while doing those shows, so I have a huge amount of respect for him.
Probably exactly to get that “This aired on Nickelodeon?” soundbite that’s mentioned in the article. It’s gotcha journalism (... or gotcha filmmaking? idk, moving on) at its finest. Dude thought he was gonna come reflect on his time there but what the filmmakers obviously wanted was a shocked adult (that at least…
I can see interviewing Summers to set up the doc along the lines of “remember when Nickelodeon was goofy kids’ game shows?” before transitioning to “but then the network produced sitcoms for tweens that had a hidden dark side…” But hitting him with innuendo-filled clips of those shows for the interview seems like a…
For all the supposed good the doc wanted to do in terms of illuminating the awful shit that went on there, it still wanted to cash in on its target audience’s nostalgia for all those old shows, Double Dare is one of those shows, bring Marc on in for a minute so viewers can play nostalgic Where’s Waldo.
Ok, so what else the producers lie about?
Harsh, but I guess pacing wasn’t an issue for you. Agree to disagree.
Saw it tonight. It was fun enough, but an A is ridiculous (a little bit of grade inflation to showcase progressive bona fides, but it’s the AV Club, so to be expected). My issue was mostly pacing—it takes a while to get to the first fight sequence, then even longer to get to the next, and there isn’t enough that’s…
Elba’s age at this point is another thing going against him, frankly.
What is this “acting” you speak of? You mean people pretend to be other people than what they are? Witchcraft, I say!
Which was obviously the knock on Craig. I didn’t have a problem with his brawler’s take on the character but it was definitely a departure from what I was accustomed.
A 90s sitcom star has nothing of interest to say.
You are misremembering. Jill was there to the end.
Allen’s leaning more in conservative political stuff is definitely evident in what I saw of his latest show. The main difference I saw was that the audience is supposed to be more on his side now. In Home Improvement he was meant to be likable but you were also supposed to see him as the butt of the jokes most of the…
I though the show was a lot of fun. I was younger, but I definitely found it had a little more to offer than some of the other “family sitcoms.” It was making fun of not just home improvement shows, but the kind of regular guys who liked to see themselves as knowing tools and cars, etc. Obviously all humor is…
The Biden crime family are all felons and they seem to be doing fine.
Will people be freaked out by the name?
It looks like Wick but without guns. Which is good! I want that!
Weird that Wick isn’t referenced ONCE here though. Surely it has an outsized influence on aesthetic and choreography, just based on the trailer.