True, the first five minutes are great, but then you have to sit through Luke wandering around the desert with C-3PO for half an hour.

The first act of Star Wars is interminable. The movie doesn't really get interesting until Han Solo shows up, and that's 45 minutes in.

Who gives a shit? The modern idea of generational cohorts was invented by boomers as a way to bolster their own bloated sense of self-worth and marginalize and dismiss any subsequent generations.

The laughs sound like that because those audiences are primed, and the tracks are sweetened in post, not because the laughs are canned. Compare the laughs on The Carmichael Show to 2 Broke Girls, a show filmed on a closed set with a laugh track added, and you'll hear a noticable difference.
If you thought those jokes…

Not a laugh track. It was filmed in front of an actual audience.

Somehow I think Lorde will be okay.

I would LOVE to know what you consider good music now.

No love for The Carmichael Show?

If we ask nicely, will he go away?

TJ, Thomas, Kumail, Mulaney, Hannibal, Pete Holmes, and I'm sure others go back 10 years or so, to their days doing stand-up in Chicago. I think Eugene Mirman might have been running in those same circles too. They're definitely old friends.

I don't know if he was "throwing shade" at Thomas Middleditch like the reviewer said. I think there's weird tension there but he obviously still cares about Middleditch. He seems to genuinely dislike Alec Berg though.

The Wolverine sequence is the best part of the movie though.

My initial reaction - this is better than DAMN. and an easy contender for AOTY.

Yawn. Call me when they finally make that Little Poots movie.

Feast your ass on this.

Just give Zach Woods his Emmy now. Between him and Timothy Simons, tall, pasty, gangly motherfuckers are turning in the best supporting comedic performances on tv right now.

1. It was a quick extrapolation on my part. Looking at the film's returns, and being unaware of the margin not being as high overseas, I see that 70% is too high. I will say though, that the 50/50 split dates back to a time when films stayed in theaters longer and 60/40 (distributor/exhibitor) is more common nowadays.

I'm well aware of how business works. For one, I'm aware that companies often become overly aggressive in setting projections and set themselves up for failure. Within the movie business, projections frequently miss the mark and films oftentimes dramatically over or under perform (see Deadpool or Kick-Ass 2 for recent…

It is absolutely insane to me that a movie tracking at $100 million for its opening weekend can be considered "below expectations."

Well those sold out stupid fast.