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Morrissey replied to the thread Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread.

You are missing out on valuable snacks and robe time.

Morrissey replied to the thread The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2025).

My number two of 2020! Great film.

Morrissey replied to the thread Movie Happy Gilmore 2 (July 25, 2025, Netflix).

This isn't as bad as something like Emilia Perez or Three Billboards, but those movies will give you moments that you might never forget for the rest of your life. For all of their problems, they are made by people trying to make a statement, where this was just dull beyond belief. It is just so cynical and sleazy; I had to take a shower after.

Morrissey replied to the thread Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread.

I always load my computer full of movies and shows if I know I have an extended hotel stay.

Morrissey replied to the thread Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2025).

The first section of Kinds of Kindness is his best American film.

Morrissey replied to the thread TV Show King Of The Hill.

The one thing I really missed was Cotton. His relationship with Hank is so important to understand Hank's personality, and it made it so much more uplifting when Hank would overcome those emotional handicaps. One of the best early episodes was about Bobby being preternaturally good at shooting so he convinces Hank to enter a father-son contest, assuming his dad was great at it, but Hank is scarred by how Cotton taught him to shoot. Hank ends up choking in the final moments of the competition, but they still place second and Bobby is so full of love for his dad that Hank is able to smile and connect with his son.

Morrissey replied to the thread TV Show Bojack Horseman (Netflix).

Creators' new show Long Story Short is getting positive notices.

Morrissey replied to the thread Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread.

People were warned not to worship a corporation.

Morrissey replied to the thread Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread.

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Morrissey replied to the thread The Best Movie Performances of the 21st Century.

I haven't watched it in years. I might need to watch it again.

Morrissey replied to the thread The Best Movie Performances of the 21st Century.

All right we are going to need more about this.

Morrissey replied to the thread The Best Movie Performances of the 21st Century.

How is Mickey Rourke not on here for The Wrestler? That is such a devastating performance, and he managed to do it while having a simpleton as his director.

Morrissey replied to the thread The Best Movie Performances of the 21st Century.

The dual roles for Adaptation should be higher. Cage had other good films this century but Adaptation is such a brilliant takedown of everything sacred in Hollywood and Cage is 100 percent game in the role.

Morrissey replied to the thread The Best Movie Performances of the 21st Century.

Bjork in Dancing in the Dark comes to mind first.

Morrissey replied to the thread Movies That Didn’t Actually Happen.

I am shocked I never heard of that one.

Morrissey replied to the thread Honey Don't! (Ethan Coen).

That is probably too simplistic a way to look at it. If it was true part of Joel Coen would have wanted to jettison his brother a long time ago so people could see his genius a long time ago. A lot of times in these things the whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Morrissey replied to the thread TV Show King Of The Hill.

Her extreme pride in her supposed skills as a substitute teacher is a great bit too. Maybe it is different in Texas but here substitutes are part timers who have a spouse that pays the bills, retired teachers, and coaches that already work at the school. No one is angling to be the best at it; how can you be the best at telling kids to go to Google Classroom and do the assignment the teacher posted?

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Morrissey replied to the thread TV Show King Of The Hill.

Peggy is hilarious. Before Kahn's family moves in, she is probably the most educated person in their neighborhood, so she has developed a huge ego. However, she probably has a Bachelor's at best, so she is just a big fish in a small pond. She reads the equivalent of an entry-level Wikipedia page and proclaims herself an expert. She is the complete opposite of Hank, who is an expert in his areas while admitting ignorance in everything else.

Morrissey replied to the thread In Memoriam.

Underutilized in the later seasons, he projected such warmth. You got the feeling that he was one of Tony's few friends, which meant that Tony abused the relationship and drove it into the ground. Their last scene together is tragic, with Tony unable to come up with more than boilerplate sympathy for his friend.

Morrissey replied to the thread TV Show Seinfeld.

The complete lack of effort to act by the Yankee players is endearing.

Morrissey replied to the thread Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread.

30 Rock is such a better version of what Arrested Development was aiming for.

Morrissey replied to the thread Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread.

I was the biggest fan of Arrested Development right around when it was cancelled the first time, but by the time it came back and I tried to watch it it just didn't make me laugh. There are a few good gags because you have some great comedic actors working, but the self-referential stuff really started to feel like the writers wanting to prove how smarter they were than everyone else, which only got worse when the show was starting to have episodes cut and seasons shortened and they started adding their anger towards that into the bits.

Morrissey replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.

Present in pretty much all Coen films is the meaningless of existence and a general light nihilism, but it really builds up in Burn After Reading because it is about the entire state security apparatus that had become so big in the years after 9/11 in which the film takes place. No one knows the difference between a real threat and a fake threat. They think Russia will buy the CD's like it is still the Cold War. Everyone is out for your life or your job. Burn After Reading and Veep both suffer a little bit because real life politics started to meet the absurdity of what they presented, but the complete lack of regard for life or objective reality is both hilarious and a little scary.

Morrissey replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.

Burn After Reading should be regarded among the upper-tier Coen movies.

Morrissey replied to the thread Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread.

It is.

Morrissey replied to the thread Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread.

Friday Night Lights is a good pick. The other seasons all have their moments but it is never the same. The Wire and Succession came out of the gate pretty close to what the shows would end up being known for.