I recently rewatched How the Grinch Stole Christmas - the one with Jim Carrey. Possibly for the first time i actually watched the movie as an adult.
I, like many of you, have seen the movie countless times, whether it be playing at my house as kid, a Christmas party, in grade-school, in college (we actually watched this movie in my Theories of Personalities class) or just in the background during Christmas time - but never really paid attention to it.
Anyways, I just sat down and watched it again and wow - The movie is just kinda meh and a little creepy. I thought to myself, "If anyone else knew i didn't like this movie, I would be put on a very naughty list."
I was sure this movie was rated highly on Rotten Tomatoes so I looked it up. Rotten by users and critics
Goddamn I was not expecting that. They must have made a ton of money on the movie though right?
Following in the footsteps of How The Grinch Stole Christmas, three years later The Cat in the Hat is released. They seem to follow the same formula:
Legendary Dr. Seuss book
Whacky comedian Mike Meyers replaces whackier comedian Jim Carrey following Meyer's incredible success with Shrek.
Relatively unknown cute blonde kid Dakota Fanning replaces relatively unknown cute blonde kid Taylor Momsen.
....and it's heralded as one of the worst movies of all time
We are talking single-digit Rotten Tomato scores and breaking even on budget.
The phenomenon is that even though How the Grinch Stole Christmas isn't regarded as a good movie by really any review, ratings, or box office scores, at this point it's almost blasphemous to say you don't like How the Grinch Stole Christmas. There's no metric for that, but try it. Try it at your family Christmas-whatever. Try it on your Tinder date. Shits not going to go well.
Look at these headlines:
Jim Carrey Best Grinch-Inverse
[Best Netflix Christmas Movies-NME](https://www.nme.com/blog
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Continuing the tradition from last year, what were the funniest/wildest pop culture moments of 2021?
Some of my favorites:
- Paul Wesley confusing Madison Beer with a type of beer when asked if he likes her on ig live, saying "he never had that beer, but he likes most beer". (Bonus: he was then asked if he belives in larry).
- Megan Fox and MGK's whole... thing
- Kanye West and Jeffree Star dating rumors that started because of some unhinged tiktoker (the same week that the attack on Capitol happened lmao)
What are yalls favorite moments? Happy new year!!
What are some of the moments in pop culture where artists just fu*ked up really bad and started loosing everything from endorsement deals to getting boycotted from radios? How their crises team and PR handled it? Were they ever able to overcome it? What should be ideally done in such situations? I can think of Chris Brown in 2009 and Travis Scott resently.
I just watched the new Spider-Man and it got me wondering if there’s any characters like that but for Minneapolis. The only ones that come to mind are that kid from Disney’s Inside Out, Paul Bunyan, and Prince (I know he’s a real person though).
Are there any that I might not know about?
I've been interested in pop culture and all things celebrity for as long as I can remember. I'm 21 and remember the original Disney Channel drama (love triangles, relationships, etc). However, I can't pinpoint that one topic, scandal, or event that started it all. I just remember always knowing way more about celebrities than any of my peers and they thought I was weird for it lol.
Do you remember what started it all for you?
As much as Mad Men loves to explore "the pain from an old wound", it doesn't excessively traffic in nostalgia. But it's also a show about the culture of the 1960s, and it doesn't avoid engaging with the popular media of the day. I was thinking about the pop culture (music, television, and movies) that got multiple references on Mad Men and in some cases played a role in the plot (not counting clients or non-diagetic musical cues) and I thought I'd throw it out to reddit.
Here's what I came up with to get the discussion started:
Movies/movie stars:
-Bye Bye Birdy (besides the s3 episode, it's suggested to a client in s1)
-Rosemary's Baby (the story about Peggy's ad goes for a while)
-Godzilla in the NYE episode, maybe also Chrysanthemum and the Sword?
-Planet of the Apes (both Don and Roger take their son/grandson to it, with mixed success)
-Grace Kelly (people compare her and Betty at least three or four times, maybe more - I'm blanking on direct references to Hitchcock though?)
-Marilyn Monroe (the Jackie/Marilyn episode, the episode where she dies, and I think there's a reference to someone on Gilligan's Island as "the Marilyn Monroe redhead")
-James Bond (Megan makes fun of Don for reading Ian Fleming at some point and I'm pretty sure there's another reference to it)
-Paul Newman (Rachel references him early on and he's at the awards dinner when MLK was shot)
Music:
-The Beatles (Don takes Sally to see them and plays them at the end of an episode - a rare instance of* a Beatles song was sampled for television)
-Rolling Stones (all over "Tea Leaves", they must be referenced elsewhere though)
-Bob Dylan (Peggy and Kurt's not-date, Lou Avery's meltdown)
-Sinatra (Don and Peggy dance to "My Way", and I know there's another reference but I can't find it)
-Elvis (Pete remarks that JFK doesn't wear a hat like Elvis, and there's the guy at the resort who references Elvis while dancing with Megan)
Television:
-The Twilight Zone (at least two - Paul talks about it early on and Megan throws a tantrum in front of Rod Serling in s7)
-Peyton Place (book/film/TV, technically - Harry spoils it for clients and I think it's maybe referenced by one of the housewives in s1?)
Referenced once, I might be forgetting: Bewitched, Gilligan's Island, Star Trek (poor sad Paul), Dark Shadows, The Defenders, The Man from UNCLE, Green Acres
Literature:
-Frank O'Hara (Meditations from an Emergency comes up a bunch in s2)
-F Scott Fitzgerald (
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