Sure, but James Bond is just a guy with a gun who works for the British government, he doesn’t have semi-supernatural spy-based superpowers, and you also have sixty-plus years of James Bond movies being massive tentpoles of popular / cinematic culture to work with. If people were watching the very first James Bond…

But this was for the first Spider-Man movie. The one that Sam Raimi made. That was Spidey’s first live action film. Why would he skip the origin there? I don’t think the general public knew the origin then. All that would have done is make the audience say, “how did he become Spider-Man?”

Like I’m not saying that if I had two hundred million dollars or whatever that’s the show I would make, but it was kinda fun. I thought Ruby Cruz was quite good.

Like ten years ago, WB released a straight-to-DVD animated adaptation of Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns with Peter Weller as Batman. I remember thinking, “Hell yes” when his casting was announced. Weller has this presence and distinctiveness in his voice that seemed perfect for that version of Batman, and I…

I’ll buy it for a dollar.

Agreed. Also, why would anyone make RoboCop ACAB-themed? The originals showed the cops as being over-worked and understaffed family people. It was the corporations and the drug dealers that were evil. If anything, the game should have satire commercials and a few dark comedy jokes here and there, “how much human is…

Ya know, I’m all for thematic resonance when appropriate and I do appreciate that the first two films satirize copaganda to an extent, but expecting a video game adaptation of those films to somehow send a message about current day policing rather than lean into the nostalgia for the films seems pretty daft. I *guess*…

I was thinking it was more unconscious sociopathy - for me, the true asshole does it consciously, intentionally, and specifically to hurt and annoy people, whereas the sociopath does it by nature. But that could be construed as splitting hairs, so I dunno...

I saw them interviewed by Conan and he was kind of baiting them to talk about Chevy and the guys were both very nice about not slagging him. Class acts, unlike Chase.

it’s 2010 i’m reading an av club article about how chevy chase doesn’t think community is funny

i rewatched ‘life itself’ recently and the footage of ebert on carson saying that three amigos sucks in front of chevy chase is...well, it’s good footage!

I don’t know if he’s fundamentally an asshole, per se, but he’s always come across to me as a guy who knows without a shadow of a doubt that he’s better and funnier than anyone else in the room, and that annoys me because in almost every case it’s clearly not true.

The reason I love Fletch is because it’s probably the straightest that Chevy Chase ever played it in a comedy. He played Irwin Fletcher as a detective who is doing a job and uses the silly stuff to disarm people or cause consternation so that he can exploit it. The sequel was horrible because the only thing he took…

I’m not even convinced that the “Chase as asshole” narrative has ever been borne out in any meaningful way. In his public appearances or interviews, he genuinely seems to be a decent guy, content with his family, his main fault being a lack of interest in the Hollywood hype machine.

Chevy Chase will never be on Stranger Things!

I didn’t know that. Good for them!

I recently rewatched Fletch and it wasn’t as fall-down funny as I thought it was as a preteen. Mostly sexual innuendo and goofy costumes. It is a good thriller-comedy, though, and I appreciated it quite a bit on those merits.

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I loved that movie when I was a kid. Watching Jack Palance grit his teeth through Chase’s crap was a singular experience