Maybe it's just me, but for me? If you're going to talk about hybrid sketch-talk show comedy programs, you gotta mention Comedy Bang Bang.
Maybe it's just me, but for me? If you're going to talk about hybrid sketch-talk show comedy programs, you gotta mention Comedy Bang Bang.
Listen to every Brian Huskey episode of Improv4Humans. The man is a genius.
Wow, she really destabilized his thermal oscillator, if you catch my drift.
Thank you for this incredible gem. I can't stop laughing at "(a sort of filthy triathlon)" and "and even things like Hot Power Yoga." Wow! Even things like THAT?
Yeah but if you're going to go with that logic the entire Superman world falls apart. The Daily Planet should fire 100% of its staff for not seeing that Clark Kent is clearly Superman with glasses. She yells "Clark!" in a crowd of hundreds of screaming people where the only other person who could reasonably hear her…
Not unusual at all! Just, in my opinion, a clear choice by the studio to cast his Aunt as someone who could be Tony Stark's love interest. I really like the grandmotherly vibe that the old comics and Sam Raimi films had. It was a fun dynamic that's kind of unique in the comics world—a teenager and an elderly woman who…
That's absolutely the best thing about this whole Marvel/Sony deal. I remember when they were promoting ASM Marc Webb was talking about how important it was to get Peter back to high school. But they cast a guy in his 30's! Tom Holland can be in high school for at least a couple of films.
He was really wonderful, and clearly enthusiastic about the character. Particularly I enjoyed his Spider-Man—like, when he was in the costume. He worked really well as the wise-ass, deflecting his fear with humor.
I like Amy Adams' Lois. In the Ultimate Cut of BvS her investigation is much more fleshed out, and her role is more important. I also liked her line in Man of Steel: "What can I say, I get writer's block if I'm not wearing a flak jacket."
Not his room, his living room. Where Aunt May and Tony Stark were…chatting. The living room was swanky. Not overtly "poor" like he was in the Raimi movies. It's a small detail, I just have a pet peeve in movies where they tell us a character is poor (i.e. building computers out of scraps) but they live in a super nice…
Those films are…fine. They're okay. The chemistry between him and Emma Stone is insane. The action looked great. But having Peter Parker be a hot dude who rides a skateboard through school and immediately wins over Gwen Stacey with no effort fundamentally alters what makes Peter Parker appealing. It's why I oddly…
I love so much of No Line on the Horizon, but it has, bar none, the worst lyrics Bono has ever written. Boots' lyrics are almost intentionally bad, but it's a shame that a gorgeous song like Unknown Caller is marred by bullshit like "Escape yourself, and gravity/ Hear me, cease to speak that I may speak/Shush now/…
I'll say it: I think Get On Your Boots is a fine song. Shouldn't have been the first single, but I love it as a weird, dumb rock song with lyrics that could be from a Beck track. It's very dumb. But dammit if it isn't catchy.
Just wanted to say I dig your favorite U2 albums. Joshua Tree, Zooropa and Songs of Innocents are my favorites as well. (Dismantle has a special place in my heart since it was the first album of theirs I heard, and so many of those songs dominated the radio when I was a kid)
I love it when AV Club talks about these loveable lads from Liverpool: Bonobos, Thedge, Adam ClayTwoThousandPounds and Larry Mullen Senior's Son.
I think sometimes a joke has good intentions but fails to land, and that maybe, just maybe, it's not something that needs op-ed articles and Twitter fury and news items and thought-pieces.
They fixed that in A Link Between Worlds, I believe.
I have a great deal more childhood nostalgia for the N64 and Gamecube eras, but I think the SNES has the most amount of games that are truly ageless. Super Mario World, Super Metroid, A Link to the Past, Chrono Trigger—all masterpieces that look and sound just as amazing today as they did in the early 90's.
I think Zero Mission (the remake of Metroid NES) is perhaps the best Metroid game, but man, what I wouldn't give for a port of the original NES Metroid that didn't have the horrendous frame rate problems.
This is a well-written, funny and inspiring piece of writing. To dismiss it simply because it's written under the guise of a fictional character is to dismiss fictional literature entirely. Good writing can inspire people. People want some inspiration. Also, you don't have to read it.