If a person hates Mel Gibson, that’s fair. It’s not like he hasn’t earned it. But when you’re producing content about how a working actor meeting his promotional obligations answers a question from a journalist in a way that is entirely respectful and supportive of your own feelings about the issue being addressed,…

“symptoms of a larger problem”

I know when I look at all the super heinous rapey shit that Harvey Weinstein did, and hear volumes of similar allegations directed at an ever-growing list of Hollywood power-players, that’s when I think what we really need to be doing is doubling-down on our seething hatred for a guy who said some rude things to a cop…

Before with the Nielson system, there was this frustrating element where it really didn’t matter if *you* watched something or not, it mattered if this random floating sample did. But now with streaming, there’s a concrete accounting of all viewership, and I can feel good about playing a tiny but tangible role in the…

But what did he fess up to?

“Leeann Tweeden, who says he groped her while she was sleeping on a return flight from a USO tour”

I feel like it was the Peter Principle that got him to the job he has, and now he will lose it due to the lack of principles of his peter.

“a new Golden Age of petty, asinine bullshit”

That’s what she said.

And thus the final nail goes in:

I think you’re mistaking my notion of how things are said for vocal inflection. Let me put it this way:

I understand 45 minutes of it is just a subterranean porg rave.

And again, I’m not denying the meaning or reasoning behind his comments. Anything that is said exists on two dimensions: what is being said, and how it’s being said. And pretention is a function of how. And anybody, I don’t care who you are, who makes a genre film with social relevance (of which there are literally…

You’re doing this wrong:

Quentin Tarantino making a movie about 1969?

Oh, and crap, I almost forgot. I had promised before that in all my comments on sexual assault stories I would mention that Danny Masterson has been accused of raping four women. So to make sure my bases are covered, I’ll do it twice.

Do we reach a point where we notice that we’re reading a story about a man who is having events canceled after being on the receiving end of a single allegation of him making a single inappropriate comment?

There are movies from out past that we may like, we may even love despite their flaws, but they shouldn’t necessarily be venerated. (I would add to your list the most gratuitous shower peeping scene in movie history, and that’s no small achievement.) If someone wants to make their own ‘smart-ass-joins-the-army’ film,…

Yeah, but there really wasn’t much in the way of ‘military humor’ in Gomer Pyle. He was so inept you could never even conceive of sending him into service; it was purely about the sunshine simpleton/barking, blustering Drill Sergeant dynamic. I’d be curious to know if the word Vietnam was ever even spoken on the show.

The movie is pretty damn bizarre, even by early 70s auteur standards, particularly given that it is also clearly a very expensive, lavish production. I found it to be one of those admirable failures; you can’t say it really works, but I was certainly never bored by it. It’s all just a little too diffuse and one-note,…