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Haven't listened to the album, just responding to the description in this review: I am a big fan of sprawling, self-indulgent acts of unrestrained creation. But I am also a big fan of editing. It sounds like their might be a great album in there if Cyrus and Coyne were able to take a hard look at the material—with the

What is this a reference to? I recognize it but I can't put my finger on it, and Google isn't helping. It's driving my crazy!

For someone who hates catchphrase culture as much he does, Dan Harmon sure does coin a lot of catchphrases.

Phantom Menace is way better for aesthetics and visual storytelling, and has an absolute garbage script. Attack of the Clones has a marginally better garbage script, but visually, looks like absolute ass.

I'll occasionally drop a "But I don't see nobody taking me to Chick-fil-A."

"When someone asks you if you are a ____________, you say 'YES!'"

I want some enterprising Tarantino-type director to rescue Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek from their weirdly terrible filmographies.

This is probably the worst movie that I love unironically.

Robin Shou is apparently also off-brand Robin Shou.

Perfect comment/avatar "incredulity" synergy.

Out of curiosity, what movies have you hated for being too scary? I'm a huge horror fan, but I think the "scariness" of horror movies is overhyped, and generally, when people say they hate horror movies, they've either a.) not seen very good ones, or b.) haven't seen very many, and vastly overestimate how frightening

I basically hate Cabin in the Woods, but it might still make my Top 10 best horror of the 21st century so far, just based on how thin the field is.

A time-honored model, followed by The Godfather trilogy, Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, Nolan's Batman trilogy, Fox's X-Men trilogy, Romero's Dead trilogy, and arguably the Scream trilogy!

Disney demonstrates commitment to honoring spirit of original trilogy by planning third and final entry to be worst of the three.

Liam Neeson's guest appearance on Life's Too Short, in which he attempts to do improv comedy, is probably my favorite self-contained work of humor I've ever experienced.

Can someone explain the "hot Christmas morning" line to me? Kyle has repeatedly asserted that it is THE perfect Simpsons joke, but not, to my knowledge, ever explained why. So I feel like I'm missing something.

I was hoping someone would pick the "Get On Your Feet" bit from Parks & Rec. That bit is a master class in perfectly staged—and narratively justified—physical comedy.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly? Half of the Godfather Part II?

I always found the "you already know how it ends" argument to be kind of insubstantial. You also know the ending—in tremendous detail—to every movie you've already seen, but if it's a good movie, the suspense and narrative momentum are still there.

I agree! I watched that doc recently and felt really gross about that part as well.