Act, talk about a man that has not aged well.

These are all fair points, but I would counter with this:

I mean, those are valid artistic criticisms, but that’s not what I was addressing. WFRR’s hook was the same sort of nostalgic indulgence, and I would say from a commercial standpoint, the “murder, lust, greed and corruption” were the window dressing. The primary attraction was seeing all these “hey, I remember that”…

Protests are controversial by design and necessity. If you don’t have controversy, then you don’t have a protest.

Here’s a parallel I’ve yet to see called out: Isn’t Ready Player One just another gloss on a Who Framed Roger Rabbit template? “Hey look, it’s Intellectual Property X cavorting with Proprietary Character Y; who ever thought we’d see them interacting with each other?” If this doesn’t exactly represent high art for…

I think examinations and reflections like this are a result of humor and activism becoming too inextricably linked with each other. ‘We made jokes about Stalin and the like for years, and yet the same heinous shit kept happening. Why even bother?’ It’s not a complicated equation: Laughter > crying. To whatever extent…

Yeah, not totally obnoxious ‘rain on your parade’ Guy, merely mildly douchy “I was into before you were’ Guy.

There’s no way to say this without sounding like That Guy, so I will now own being That Guy in this instance.

Tell me about it, right? Like the other day my cousin tried to wish me a happy birthday; that motherfucker called me a poopyhead when he was two-years old. You think I’m just gonna let that shit drop, Dennis?

Whoever branded this item is a fucking genius and if I ran a marketing agency, I would hire them immediately.

The difference between those examples and The Mod Squad is this: The Mod Squad. The Mod Squad. In 1999. Yes, nobody knows or gives a shit about John Carter as a character or concept, but it also doesn’t have its inherent mockability built right into the title. The other difference would be the talent behind those two…

When is somebody going to do an “oral history” for The Mod Squad, and why do I suspect that Giovanni’s commentary here might be one of the more loquacious on the subject?

This was a grift so epic and transparent and conspicuous that you almost have to wonder if it wasn’t some incredibly committed act of performance art.

Dick Tracy is the closest he got to that in terms of broader success, what with its respectable box office take and the Oscar nomination, but the movie wasn’t a ‘comedy’ so much as a....

Everyone- everyone- will bring some manner of bias into their enjoyment of a movie, whether it’s affinity for a particular genre; affection for source material; affection for an artist who made something important to you; a desire to see success from artists belonging to subgroup x, y, or z; hell, it can even be the…

Wow, you are quick on the draw, because I rewrote my original post within a minute of hitting ‘publish.’ I apologize for its essential snottiness and that my point was initially ill-formed, and I am calling out to everyone reading this that his post reacted to a statement that I redacted and revised.

Well, he didn’t say he would stop eating there, but that their advertising would influence his overall decision-making process. And isn’t that the whole point of advertising?

Al Pacino is so damn funny that it’s almost inexplicable that he doesn’t have a bona fide comedy classic on his resume. He really should have had his Tootsie moment. I think the closest we got to that was Author! Author! which is a long way from a classic, but it’s a nice, amusing movie featuring an Al that was still…

T.J. Miller’s next project will be performed entirely from the hood of a car.

Hyperbolic overreactions?