Was asking myself that same question after reading this steaming pile. I swore it off once after the Kinjapocalypse—might be time to do it again & for real, because it’s so much worse now than I ever thought it could get. Old AV Club had some takes, but at least they were almost always a) thoughtful and b) funny (or…

Marty is right, and knows more about cinema and the business around it than you’ll ever know. And you’re an idiot who writes clickbait for a living and celebrates soulless corporate product while decrying the (actually fairly mild and polite) opinions of one of our great living artists. Congratulations, you’re part of …

Personally I prefer it that they aren’t just doing a victory-lap reboot with Niles and Daphne. It’s literally a new show with the same name and central character. This is more or less what OG Frasier was, relative to Cheers. It’s at least slightly more ambitious for them to imagine what he might be up to in another…

Exactly. Folding the band IS honoring her. It is the highest honor really, to say openly, “You were so important that this cannot exist without you.” Like Zeppelin after Bonham died. Anyone advocating for them to do a tour anyway is almost certainly a fan who is really just speaking to their own self-interest (namely,…

I’m curious to see it. I’m a sucker for sci fi and I like neat visuals. I hope it’s great. That said, I have a sneaking suspicion it’s going to be more of a mixed bag. The review embargo was weird and while it’s reviewing decently well, it’s not really “surprise masterpiece” territory either (running around 80% on RT…

Different strokes and all that, I suppose! Rock in a Hard Place is the least of those three to me, and the only one of them I don’t own. The other two are passable hard rock albums, listenable enough if you tune out the known backstory that was going on at the time they were made. And of course, the absence of Perry…

I personally think they did their best work in that span on live albums. The live half of Ummagumma and the Pompeii concert manage to focus on a coherent group of space rock songs, making the band sound cool and cosmic. But a lot of the studio stuff from the same period is very revealing of a band still struggling to…

Most of these are notorious stinkers and/or ill-conceived artistic missteps, sure. Night in the Ruts is a weird selection, though. It’s a decent, though decidedly B-tier, Aerosmith album. It’s quite a bit better than the one that followed it (Rock in a Hard Place) and I would argue a lot more enjoyable than all the…

Of course that’s what it is. That’s the cycle now. Interviewer asks impossibly old person a question where the answer is pretty much a foregone conclusion and waits for the clicks to roll in. Then vultures like the AV Club throw up a link to said interview with a paragraph or two of withering condescension ladled over…

His shows, particularly the one under discussion here, are not about acting. Or writing, or coherence. The audience they mainly appeal to is into twists and turns, lurid camp, and borderline stunt casting. Granted, the show has employed several actors who I think are very good. But as it’s gone along there has been an…

I feel like you meant that as a slight on Scorsese, but really it’s just an indictment of your tastes and our current culture. Marty continues to be right: content is crowding art out of the marketplace, and sucking up a lot of young talent that two or three decades ago would've been doing more interesting work.

Huh. I never have liked the early part of the show at all, especially the entire first season, but also much of the first half of the second. And I think the writing is a large part of why. It feels desperate, frantic. A mess of nudge-you-in-the-ribs pop culture references, dumb gimmicks (Ugly Naked Guy, Ross’s…

Those little crispy and burned bits are critical to its success. I make them at home and intentionally use a longer toast time to get that effect on the edges.

Yep. I still enjoy that movie. Sure it’s warmed-over New Hope and some of the plot hinges on bizarre improbabilities (e.g. the thing with Luke’s lightsaber, which feels like it was begging for a better explanation that never came). And everything it sets up never pays off thanks to a combination of poor planning by…

It’s nu-AV Club and Sam Barsanti. He’s either straight trolling for clicks, or a victim of his own terrible taste, or both.

“Whatever the truth is, it’s an undoubtedly upsetting situation.”

It is also very odd to say that Hollywood learned the wrong lessons from movies released... one year prior. How does someone who works for an entertainment website not know how long the production cycle is for movies? Practically nothing that comes out in a given year is a direct response to anything that came out…

You seem to be having a conversation other than the one I’m in, involving positions I did not express and don’t intend to defend, and since it involves way too many words to read, I’m not going to try to nudge my way in. Best wishes.

They do huge amounts of damage to society and their fellow human beings with motives only a few degrees off from normal impulses that almost everyone shares. If you don’t find that interesting and worth examining, I can’t imagine why.

What in the ever-loving fuck are you talking about? Nobody mentioned cancel culture. It just annoys me that every last song about or from the perspective of a bad person is talked about online as if it’s endorsing the behavior or revealing the psychology of the songwriter. It’s one-dimensional thinking, and tears…