AV Club Heresies

I thought Childish Gambino's Because the Internet was a great album.

I honestly really recommend it for anyone who wants some offbeat, catchy, psychedelic hip-hop. The script and storyline is entirely unnecessary and you don't need it to enjoy the music. The paranoid misogyny of Camp is entirely gone, his flow is drastically improved, the production a great deal more experimental and less polished. (The corny one-liners are still there, sorry. But they're likably silly and less forced.) The second half of the album is genuinely strange, dipping into a weird hybrid of industrial music and R&B that makes me very excited for his future work.

I'm sure I've mentioned my appreciation of it on the TI before, but for some reason I was reminded of it tonight and given the 'eh' review AVC gave it (and the general "GO BACK TO ACTING" sentiment toward Donald Glover in the commentariat) I thought I'd post it here.

Not read him; but I'll stand by my opinion that No Country For Old Men is the most over-rated film of the 21st Century. Based on that flick, I probably never will read him.

That's a very tall order when we have so much superhero bullshit(and yes, I do like superhero movies too) to choose from.

I don't find his style of humor funny at all. It's painful to watch.

I'd rather watch Iron Man 2 again than No Country. Also, no major film critics are declaring any superhero flick of recent years as a creative masterpiece in the way they do with No Cunt...

for him it's kitsch over kink

To be fair, and I say this as someone who loves the show: that first episode is bad.

If you want to know why people watch Bob's Burgers, watch the episode with Jon Hamm as a talking toilet.

that explains it!  so check the links if you like

When I originally watched it, I gave up after the first season. It was okay, but nothing amazing. After people kept talking about by the 3rd season, I went back, and the first episode of Season 2 got me hooked. I've loved it since. 

So, in answer to your question, 14 episodes. Seriously, just give that one a watch out of context from the rest. 

I used to think that I liked Star Wars. I liked the movies well enough, they are fun, dumb, movies. Now I realize, after months and months of speculation about a movie, than I earnestly do not give a fuck about Star Wars.

It's just fun trash people, stop ascribing higher meaning to a merchandise empire! Holy sweet Jesus fuck, Star Wars is not art. I'm just so sick of being over saturated with Star Wars shit, and the movie (and it is just a fucking movie people) still does not come out for another two months. Sweet fuck.

I think the sort of ease that makes the original trilogy “dumb fun” is underappreciated, actually—that illusion of ease is one of the hardest things for a movie to do. The economy of storytelling, skill in terms of editing and lighting (thanks, New Hollywood!), the close fit of the way everything unfolds plays to everyone’s strengths acting (while avoiding their weaknesses), and creativity in terms of things like set design, puppetry and model work are really impressive—it’s the fact that we can take it for granted that elevates the films to art.

There was The Dark Knight; that's widely held up as one of the best films of the last ten years. Also, honestly, NCFOM is simply a better film, with better acting, directing, and cinematography than most superhero films, and the source material is a novel by Cormac McCarthy, who is a much better writer than the vast majority of comics writers, and certainly much better than the vast majority of superhero comics writers. But also, of course NCFOM is more acclaimed than most superhero films; that's true of pretty much any film that aspires to be capital A Art rather than a blockbuster and is deemed to be very good by most critics.