You know, during the Obama years I could roll with the turtle comparison. Seeing how much he’s willing to toady to get what he wants during this administration, and his total willingness to sit on his hands as the allegations pile up and become increasingly more criminal, I almost feel like it’s an insult to the…

They also gave Ennio Morricone a worst score nomination for The Thing.

Some of their takes have NOT aged well.

Whenever this scene comes up in conversations now, I’ve taken to describing it as ‘the moment when aspiring young criminal Kevin McCallister meets the Devil at a crossroads and ultimately decides to turn his life around’

One of these days we’ll finally just accept that Brazil is the Christmas movie we deserve and it’s the one we’re living anyway, so might as well embrace the horror.

Let’s give credit where it’s due - Mark Burnett did a LOT to help him out there.
Yes, on the campaign trail his blathering and bigotry built the momentum, but he had Burnett’s team from the Apprentice to thank for their part in editing together 14 seasons that gave a large chunk of America the mistaken impression that…

I’m kind of waiting for it to come out that there’s a line in his last will & testament that the coroner is forbidden from disclosing his actual weight at the time of death.

This, really. The man sold himself as this tough, no-nonsense hard-ass dealmaker, and thanks to years of careful editing on The Apprentice, people bought it.

Stuff like this helps highlight just how much of it is preening and artifice.

Additional to this - it is REALLY not a good look in untouched pictures these days. The areas that get missed/don’t see as much color glare out, and the skin underneath does NOT look healthy (watch him during press conferences or in straight-forward shots from third parties. The toll the past two years have taken is…

Pinky and the Brain put one in my brain I didn’t connect until years later.
The Brainy the Pooh episode. I got the base level joke of Christopher Walken as Christopher Robin. But for years I had no idea his scene was basically a kid spoof of Walken’s monologue from Annie Hall until watching it in a film studies course…

It’s still bizarre to me that the first place I ever heard a ‘squeal like a pig’ joke was on Rocko’s Modern Life.
Another notch on that show’s extensive ‘how did this not get dinged?’ belt.

Corollary to this, I’d be interested to know how many people can trace their knowledge of one or more episodes of The Twilight Zone to seeing them spoofed on Treehouse of Horror.

-If we’re laying cards on the table on that note: Homer^3 as a version of Little Girl Lost for me.

-The Critic’s take on the Orson Welles radio spots (“Full of country goodness and green peaness...wait. That’s terrible!”)
-As I’ve admitted elsewhere recently, I had no idea just how long the legacy was behind the Simpsons character oft-refered to simply as “YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSS?”
-Animaniacs spoofing Apocalypse Now.…

It kind of is, actually.
Deplatforming is, at its core, the free speech of the market at work.
The owners of the platforms decide, for one reason or another, that they feel Jones’s presence on their platform is detrimental to their bottom line.

Like any problem client or customer, the owners are well within their rights…

Cause anyone can make sense of that. It takes a truly advanced thinker to crack the mysteries of *checks notes* child sex slaves on Mars?

...are we absolutely sure this man isn’t abusing some manner of illegal drug?

(Actually, to his credit, the QAnon crowd gives his fanbase a run for their money in terms of their…

Part of me wants to correct the statement, the other part of me can only stare in Dick Halloran-esque horror imagining the outcome of either such coupling.

...it’s a curious mix, to be certain.

The podcast We Hate Movies makes a good case for the dislike (with Andrew Jupin even admitting he loved the movie for years before coming back to it and recognizing the shortcomings) - it has some bits that work (bless Peter MacNicol for trying as hard as he does) but ultimately, it’s just sort of a lazy sequel with…

Offer him popcorn?

Initially they planned to give him more screentime, if you can believe it. The scene with Louis getting on the bus, like the infamous blowjob ghost in the first movie was part of a larger axed piece of film of Rick Moranis trying, and failing, to catch Slimer.

“Good ol’ Rock...nothin’ beats that!”

Boy...is my face red...