But that is what America was founded on, screwing over others.

Some comedian I was watching made the observation that Osama and Trump have a lot in common, both being spoiled, deranged sons of real estate tycoons, and now I guess you can add “they both have estranged, normal family” to the list.

Tetsuo as a small time jerk with a bad attitude and inferiority complex who goes insane upon gaining unlimited power has its equivalent in 2020 America, even without him turning into a disgusting orange blob.

...Canada?

Err, yeah, I mean you can definitely draw new comparisons as AKIRA being about the future of the world but the film is absolutely not shy about its pretext being the bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki, the American Occupation (and the Japanese government’s collusion in keeping secret any wrongdoings), and the failure of…

What, you don’t want to see the 200M Expanding Ball of Flesh event?

In a somewhat surprising move, unless you know the franchise’s history and who Daniel Snyder is, the new team name is the Washington N****rs

“We’re proud to announce our newly named team ... The Washington Lady As!”

Every Halloween, I show this movie to my classes and pause before the endings for the kids to try to solve it themselves with the detective page I gave them, and give out Halloween candy rewards for plausible solves. It’s the best part of every school year. And it helps to identify the kids whose parents are doing it…

Having read this review, I’m gonna go home and sleep with my wife.

Verhoeven genius comes from the fact that he really likes to satire extreme violence and sexuality but it’s clear he also kinda enjoys them.  Like he will use a violent act or sexual assault as a commentary on something or to spark an emotion  response in on scene and the next scene put some boobs in or a random silly…

More specifically Hong Kong, pre-takeover. 

It always reminds me of Anatole of Paris by Eve Titus.

If I didn’t know better, it would seem that the police have a habit of lying.

I think they should have asked Dot Com. I think he would have some insights from classical literature on ironizing the current zeitgeist. 

Maybe those 30 Rock episodes will come back with a disclaimer like the Disney cartoons that say it was “a different time.” Those disclaimers don’t really contextualize anything but it lets them off the hook, I guess. Like the average (white) Americsn possess the tools to contextualize the role of racial stereotypes…

Lol, touche!

I would like to commend Pixar for featuring parents in several of their movies who are actually good parents, who really try hard and do the best they can. So much children’s entertainment is based on parents who are idiots or absent.

That last paragraph really put it in focus. Toy Story 3 is an instructional film for adult Star Wars fans. 

The look of resignation between Woody and Buzz as they take each others hands is better acting by CGI toys than most humans could hope to achieve in their lifetimes.  It’s literally one of the most harrowing things I’ve ever seen in a film.