Roger Rabbit the character is co-owned by Amblin, so Amblin and Disney could never come to an agreement on a path for the sequel.

The timing of their popularity was also curious. They were right to call out the many hypocrisies of the Clinton era, but just vanished when we needed them most. they also could’ve done a ton more for independent record labels, but sold out to Sony

It’s crazy to think about the fact that there was once a time where big stars could catapult a drama to the top of the box office. At best, Rain Man would be a middling success in today’s film environment.

On the one hand, I wouldn’t mind seeing more of these sorts of “movies for adults” in theaters, if only as an…

For me, I think he earned it with Born on the Fourth of July. He actually becomes that character, whereas some of his other good performances tend to be about “how can we use Cruise’s persona against him / harness it to perfectly douchebaggy ends.”

There is no universe in which Beverley Hills Cop is better than Back To The Future.

Assuming the character is roughly the same age as Dustin Hoffman (born 1937), institutionalizing someone like Raymond may well have been the recommended course of action at the time. It’s sad from today’s point of view, but not much outside the norm then.

Things I did not expect to see today:

No one coasts on previous successes better than these guys. First time I saw RATM was in 1992 when I was 19 years old. Their last full record came out 20 years ago. Their last live record was 17 years ago. I realize it’s a fairly timeless one, but their schtick is SO tired. If they can get back together, great. But…

The problem with a disclaimer decided by a multinational company that only cares about its PR and its revenue is that we are giving the keys of our moral judgment to amoral (at best, more often than not they are immoral) entities.

I don’t get the redaction in stories. The guy willingly and publicly posted under his name. He’s not a juvenile crime suspect.

This is an extreme case, but I’ve seen similar comments elsewhere about bands that have been overtly political for years. The right wingers of America still seem to have trouble accepting that everyone who is interesting or creative in the country pretty much hates everything they stand for and, especially, their…

Wrong kid died!

That’s a song written by the great Grant Hart. Check him out.

They make you look like a fussy little shit. They make you look like a college professor with a history of sexual assault. They look like a gaily-painted medieval torture device. They make your head look like a dressed Christmas ham.

It’s basically just Lonely Island’s “Threw it On the Ground” only played entirely straight.

I finally got around to watching Joker last week and was shocked at how shallow and predictable it was. I couldn’t help but think “THIS is supposed to be controversial/provocative?”.

Good for him. Frankly I don’t know how white people handle having all these racist ass friends. I have lots of white people in my FB timeline posting wonderful supportive stuff, and invariably one of their racist friends comments some “but acshually” BS and they spend all this time trying to change their minds, which…

I don’t think it’s actually Rick doing something right. The way Beth phrased it was “Do you want me to stay and be part of your life,” or head off into space. It was a pretty unambiguous request for love and approval, and he just doesn’t want the responsibility. So he invents a workaround where he doesn’t have to take…

“The whole idea of manned space travel isn’t really that hard.”

I recently discovered someone made great a cover of Tom Servo’s “Rowsdower Song”: