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I think you can split up the conclusion movie of a long series, but not one movie by itself. People hate that.

This is the answer that musical fans don’t understand. There’s always some insinuation of fragile masculinity or gay panic, but it’s just a very specific milieu that doesn’t appeal to most people. It’s like anime or science fiction. Some people ain’t got time for that.

You are not a serious man.

No, but but a dearth of action combined with philosophical inquiries into the nature of evolution and consciousness is.

“It should go without saying that just because someone says something with conviction doesn’t necessarily make it reality.”

The onus of clarity is on the writer, not the reader. It’s actually weird not to take you at your word, and to assume you meant something else.

The big difference for me is that Phantom Menace really dumbed tings down and leaned into the kiddie aspect, while The Motion Picture went the other direction and was much more cerebral than the show ever was.

But you stated it as a fact. You should have said “I never found Seinfeld funny” if it was an opinion.

I remember the day I finally realized this myself. I had spent all those years laughing at something that wasn’t funny. How could I be so foolish? How could popular opinion and critical consensus have also misjudged this objectively unfunny man? Why was I still laughing at his jokes when they weren’t funny? 

Yes, because if people don’t protest about everything, and to a degree consistent with the correct order of magnitude, they can’t possibly really care.

Wouldn’t it be ideological either way?

My hope is that he gets shot and paralyzed like he did on Degrassi. I just think it would be neat.

I think the first movie, while silly, is very good. It’s directed by John G. Avildsen, who also made Rocky, and the similarities are stunning: Weird Italian guy that everyone underestimates does well in a sport with help from a short trainer with unusual methods. He puts in a good effort, and even wins over his chief…

There are a few moments like when Jerry says “That’s a shame” or faces off against Newman that I think are funny. I don’t think you could remove Jerry from the show, because it’s the chemistry between all four of them that works.

This isn’t the kind of place where people don’t overthink (by which I assume you mean being slightly critical and having above lowest common denominator standards) movies.

I don’t think it’s trying to trade in surprise though. It’s chronicling a man’s downfall and the people and company he brought with him. Right from the beginning we see that Ballsilie is a prick who doesn’t really understand the product. He knows that it’s the first of its kind, but he only really bets on it because…

Needs a silly nickname. Biffy or Boffy. Something like that.

Are you saying someone has to be likable to be funny?

I’m not disputing that religion was the primary subject of art. I’m merely saying that a system that has all-encompassing power over a society is bound to be the subject of that society’s art. I don’t believe there is an intrinsic connection between the two, and I think that the gradual shift away from popular…