My wife lasted twenty minutes, and to her credit, went to bed without yelling at me about picking the night's movie. I persevered (and I've got to be honest, the butt didn't hurt), but I honestly can't think of a dumber film. Remember the SNL sketches about the high school drama troupes that would set tiny scenes and then punctuate them with "Wow"? Those scenes were far more subtle than this thing.
Is Dennis Quaid becoming Randy? Feel free to opine in the comments.
It was a fun ride watching the discourse congeal around this thing from "no way will this be considered the best picture of the past year" to something more like "why the hell not?" For whatever my opinion is worth, it can attribute a large chunk of its Oscar fortune to the fact that two of the larger, more popular films are incomplete parts of a series, and I feel the window was open this year to acknowledge that Sean…
This was funny, and it reminded me that, even in 2023, a comic actually can talk for a solid hour without griping about how unfair it is that it’s not cool anymore to be cruel to marginalized peoples.
That such humor without a persecution complex comes from Tennessee is perhaps the most shocking part of all.
Maddeningly uneven, but there’s some top-notch grain in all this chaff. I want a Bill Withers biopic STAT. The Attica stuff has probably been done better elsewhere, on the other hand, and by and large really isn’t all that musical. I would think the November release of Led Zeppelin IV might possibly have warranted a mention, but what do I know. Bomani Jones frequently argues that James Brown is the singular most influential American with regards to popular American music…
