I mean, of course. Burt raps in the original, why wouldn’t the Burt-equivalent rap in the remake?

Doesn’t it kinda turn your stomach how plausible it is?

Think of the inspiring speech we missed out on:

Fox marketing LA to Vegas as ‘Ron Burgundy flying an airplane’ only ended up pushing away the demo that would have been its audience if they had given it a chance.

You wouldn’t be asking that if you were paying attention.

“Pay attention to the fact that he didn’t say “the next Kingsman movie” and not Kingsman 3...”

When is the multiverse franchise version of Swan Lake coming out? How obtuse must it be that nobody has ever attempted to build something out of its public domain brand awareness?

Note to Hollywood:

It’s strange how inured I’ve become to this sort of thing (especially around these parts) that it didn’t even dawn on me until I read your comment that this review makes exactly one solitary (parenthetical) comment regarding one solitary performance, which would be odd regardless, but much more pronounced in a movie…

That is the idea, isn’t it?

Yes, I know.  The bullies are always laughing at their targets.

See this, AV writers? Right above this is what people call a joke. It is both pointed yet whimsical. It’s bemused rather than incensed.

I would concede that a certain sourness crept into the last couple of seasons and created a lot of the plots that are getting called out here, but I would never project misogyny onto them; really just flat misanthropy. Everybody on the show became pretty horrible. But I would largely attribute it to conceptual rot as…

What? You don’t find smug didacticism hilarious?

“Kevin can fuck off because he’s a terrible human being...”

Is it possible, possible, that it might exist outside of the most cynical, reductive dynamics people with agendas reflexively assign to it?

He does have a personality as a filmmaker. It’s the personality of the guy at the party who believes the louder he tells his story, the more interesting it becomes, when it’s really just about the time he saw Carrot Top buying T-shirts at Savers.

Remember when AV articles were snarky rather than angry?

There’s a pretty legendary story about how the original pilot for the Mary Tyler Moore Show flopped in front of the audience, particularly the “I hate spunk!” interview scene.  And the gist of it was that Ed Asner was playing the anger too genuine, and once he gave it a sitcom energy, the response changed 100% and…

Paging Lucky Louie...