Rev. Chris Stangl

lol

Ah, we hate the wicked man Joss Whedon who came up with all the ideas for Joss Whedon shows, but can't stop trying to do the Joss Whedon's ideas without Joss Whedon, surely Joss Whedon had nothing to do with the execution of Joss Whedon's ideas.
Go play Outer Worlds if you're so desperate. Christ.

While I am also of the opinion that this specific project does not need to exist in any way, and it is grotesque that it does, this is also why all cartoons are bad now.

the peculiar persistence of suckers, dupes, chumps, marks, and magic-bean-buying fuckin rubes

12. 3/3 — Tinkle Pit (1993; MAME)
Goofball upbeat maze chase with abundant Namco character cameos and a vaguely Rygar-does-Libble Rabble line-drawing yo-yo attack. Bullshit bosses probably make 1CC unattainable, but otherwise a breezy 30m clear.

You’re either credulous fuckwits or payola sucking hacks. Probably both.

magical realism is the new punk rock

11. 2/25 — Super Lup Lup Puzzle (1999; MAME)
Puzz-Loop/Zuma rip-off with nudie pix and 100 levels before a worldwide fireworks celebration finale. Zuma vets will zip through with minimal effort unless easily distracted.

Why cartoons are all bad now

"Here It Comes", though any definitive Best Song pick needs to be about driving.

do not let it out

jesus christ dude lol

*(I can, of course, tell you what happened in these X-Files. You do not, of course, want to know.)

I sure can see why they'd reboot The X-Files, people love The X-Files and demand more The X-Files! Even though nobody can tell you what happened in the last three seasons. Or the second movie. Or the two legacy sequel seasons. Yessir, people definitely want more X-Files!

why are people asking if mulder and scully will appear on the x-files reboot oh wait it's because reboot doesn't actually mean reboot to writers or studios or reporters or audiences it means sequel or spinoff or remake or sometimes even reboot

Personally, I believe the Criterion Collection is allowed to put movies I don't like in the Criterion Collection. It's smart branding to make your home video line synonymous with The Canon to consumers, but it is not actually an award, approval, or induction into the halls of cinematic immortality.

10. 2/18 — Spinal Breakers (1991; MAME)
Cabal-style crosshair shooter with insaneo time travel theme so you get to hose Nazis, samurai, Roman legionaries, and laser triceratops with futuristic grenade launchers but it's super repetitive anyway.

9. 2/18 — Spider-Man: The Video Game (1991; MAME)
We walked right, we punched guys, we took unavoidable damage, we put in more quarters and walked right and punched more guys until they ran out of guys.

When I'm dating a girl and I start getting serious about her, aright, I show her Rio Bravo and if she doesn't like it I show her fuckin El Dorado and if she doesn't like it I show her Rio Lobo and I go "So, Rio Bravo's lookin pretty motherfuckin good right now, huh?"

If you're addicted to Quentin Tarantino saying dumb, wacky shit about movies, you're in luck, I guess: he's been doing it in public for 35 years & has a whole podcast where he takes turns doing that with his friend who is way worse. Also he says lots of interesting, insightful things, but who cares!

1988, on a neighborhood stroll with my dad, he casually points at a Jesse Jackson sign in a yard: "Best man for the job, and the second time in a row the Democrats won't nominate that guy, and that's all you need to know about them." I highly doubt he remembers, but oh boy did I retain the lesson.

Wtf do they not remember when that barrel fell on worf

Damn, took Criterion long enough on Stray Dog, but also they somehow had never commissioned a Chris Ware cover before?

While I’m freaking out, why is Ginger & Fred the only remaining missing Fellini without an HD home video version or any legit R2 release ! ? I’m freaking out!!

I know there is a lot going on right now, but Fred & Ginger pictures are one of my primary means of coping with Things Going On, so.

I recently found out my Astaire & Rogers DVD box finally succumbed to early-WB disc rot when Top Hat seized up a third of the way in and I have NOT been okay. Barring Criterion's Swing Time, why is every one of these not on Blu/UHD? Agh, fuck, it's fucking *TOP HAT* for fuck's sake.

I would only kickstart MST3K to do one final Joel season with KTMA production values shot in a garage or something.

Well, sure, but the salient point of those anecdotes re: the song proper is Linnell being very explicit that it's "void of any musical reference" and treats the Wu as an unknowable abstraction like McCafferty's Bib or the Spiraling Shape.

New TMBG single "Wu-Tang" is firmly in the tradition of "We're the Replacements", "Welcome to the Jungle", "Why Must I Be Sad?", "XTC vs Adam Ant", etc/ad infinitum: the main gag/disorientation technique is one absolutely cannot tell from inference or conjecture what TMBG actually thinks of Wu-Tang.