Elvis in the Kristopherson role in Star is Born.

oh man. Gotta figure out how to work that line into a conversation. 

I assumed Siri couldn’t translate your Kryptonian accent. 

come back here on Monday and post a link. Please. 

totally. It’s the “Pow! Wham! Comics aren’t for kids anymore?” headline syndrome, that was all around in the 80's and 90's.

I do, but the movie bares as much resemblance to it as Men In Black did to its comic (no Flaming Carrot!) and it had almost no impact even with comic audiences, so a movie audience wouldn’t have got the reference. The movie is a parody of superhero comics generally.

thanks for the correction. 20 year memory failed me.

gah - egg salad. See below.

his inspirational speech about a ham sandwich was good. 

“For whatever reason, a lot of the early superhero movies were also superhero-movie parodies. Before the genre was fully formed—before it was even close to fully formed—movies were using it as grist for jokes.”

and “The Simpsons” - he strangled Millhouse!

command-F

you think thats bad? Then don’t ever, ever google a photo of Jimmy Saville before bed.

ok, for the real old-school AVClub readers: any one here from the last writers strike? (No, I don’t want to know exactly when that was, I don’t want to spend the rest of the day depressed about how old I am). I swear most of those striking writers where on the boards then - the comments where some of the funniest…

lovely song, and stunningly lovely video.

so he got that ripped from eating Pringles? Good to know. Pringles diet, ahoy!

(yeah, thought you did. Not everyone seems to have though...)

to quote the Simpsons, “thats the joke!”

ftfy

and yeah, Bill Pullman is way too nice about the breakup. He should have said “Game over, man! Nuke him from space!”