It’s got a slowed-down Nirvana song in the trailer. It’d be pretty hard not to get a 90s vibe from that.

...even if they eventually become much better movies when the 45 minute longer director’s cut is released a few years later.

Alas, it’s not “Y: The Last Monkey.”

I think you have the core of it, but it’s just simpler. While Diesel has tried to branch out, he’s also worked very hard to get himself into the niche you see him as “stuck” in. He’s pursued action franchises very hard, much harder than he pursued comedy or serious drama. And in that context, the trouble he has with…

Yeah, not a big mystery or particularly difficult to hear, even on my crappy laptop speakers.

I don’t see what’s so complicated about Caine being of two minds about retiring. He gets a role which requires a bit of being on his feet, and he says, “Well, doubt I’m ever going to that again.” Then a few months later he has a conversation, usually with Christopher Nolan, that ends something like this:

Yeah, big points to Johnson for suppressing the urge to say “Fatality!” after that one...

I think the difference between facts and opinions as speech is instructive, because you have to define what you’re protecting and why, and the answers to those questions tend to be very different depending on whether the information being released into the world is opinion or fact. I mean, at the moment we’re…

Not a Chappelle supporter, or generally a supporter of people saying horrible things. But if you’re actually curious, the reason there’s a difference between how we treat free speech and proprietary data is that freedom of speech is primarily intended to protect people’s opinions, particularly political opinions.…

The classical tech “sticky” feature is comment boards like this one. The idea is that an article, on its own, is something the reader will probably read once. A sticky article is one that readers come back to again and again. Comments make articles sticky, because, without the AV Club having to pay to create more…

I’m sure he enjoyed the big house and residuals while while it lasted, but since 2011, Schwartz has been kicking up his heels in the afterlife. 

The pressure wasn’t mainly directed at Netflix, because there were higher-profile targets to go after. A cursory search seems to indicate that the thing that broke the dam on blackface was Tina Fey withdrawing episodes of 40 Rock from Hulu. After that (IIRC) studios and streaming services moved to follow suit,…

“...his name is Jeffrey and he has his own private jet and his own island! Take his number! I met him when I was about your age and I can tell you: he’s a cool hang.”

His most watchable film (GOTG 1) is tempered by mainstream expectation and an original screenplay that wasn’t his to sand his sense of humor down and raise up the real emotional character beats.

Galaxy Quest doesn’t use any of Trek’s trademarks, it doesn’t copy specific plots or characters, and if anyone complained about it being too close, it almost certainly would be covered as a fair use parody. Same thing for The Orville, and Space Balls/Star Wars.

I agree with this sentiment heartily, but reading it, I couldn’t help but think about the moment in About a Boy (not sure if it made the movie or if it was just in the book) when the main character has driven away everyone in his life by being a worthless piece of crap, and Santa’s Super Sleigh—a fairly annoying…

“Blatantly[...]not the best advice” is a delicious turn of phrase.

What makes the Always Sunny example work — and this is what I think a lot of people tend to forget in these kind of “you wouldn’t be able to make that joke today!” type arguments — is that the joke is in fact carefully constructed to make sure we know that Dennis is the target of it.

Did you read the linked article with the “Felliniesque” quote? Because it seems by Diesel’s own account that Diesel wasn’t telling the Johnson to “chill out.” It looks like Diesel was abusive toward Johnson on set, to try to get a better performance out of him (“tough love” as Diesel puts it). And that’s probably why…

It’s always sweet when the world’s most boring people find each other...