The Seven Favorites

This month, the men of GLOP (Goldberg, Long, and Podhoretz) reunite for yet another jog through the pop culture and political parks. This time, a bit of commentary on the today’s shake-up in the Trump campaign, an argument for Larry Hagman as the most important actor in the history of TV, and then some Twitter hashtag games: #YourFavorite7Movies and #YourFavorite7TVShows. Finally, some thoughts on Chuck Klosterman’s new book, But What If We’re Wrong.

Aristophanes, EJHIll

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  1. kylez Member
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    Bill:

    jeffp:In other news, I’ve been re-viewing early episodes of “Twin Peaks,” which I remember being celebrated at the time as what TV was invented to bring us, and it’s … awful.

    Honestly, I have never understood why anybody likes David Lynch. At all. His appeal is completely lost on me.

    Except his “conventional” movies. The Elephant Man is great, and would be on my long list. He also did The Straight Story, which is quite good. But I agree with you regarding the rest of what I’ve seen from him.

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  2. kylez Member
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    Bill:On the subject of beloved entertainment you introduce to other people and are very disappointed in their reaction: I once showed Princess Bride to a girlfriend who had never seen it. She didn’t like it. To be clear, the fault was with her, not the movie.

    This also relates to the Mel Brooks angle though. I showed her History of the World Part I, and she loved it. It was, is, and always shall be one of the funniest movies ever made. Other Mel Brooks movies haven’t aged as well. I don’t think High Anxiety is very good, and Blazing Saddles is wildly overrated. JPod spoke disdainfully of Spaceballs, but that one I think is ok, and is still moderately funny. Robin Hood: Men in Tights is not an example of a movie that has not aged well, simply because it was never good and never liked, by pretty much anybody, as far as I can tell.

    I saw History last year. Not very good or consistently funny, and crass. The idea that a person could like that more than The Princess Bride does not compute. Spaceballs falls apart in the second half, after a clever start.

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