Reiser still has a lasting legacy as Carter Burke, at least.

Isn't really the whole point of the movie O'Toole's presence, though?

I'm no spring chicken myself, being one of the older GenXers, but I seriously can't imagine anyone who is not a Baby Boomer actually enjoying it. It is such a "wasn't our generation so fucking awesome and our touchstones so amazing?" thing. No, I don't care about Elvis, or Woodstock, or any other of your icons.

And we already have the satire that works better — Back to the Future Part II. Biff was actually *intended* as a parody of Trump — at least his 1980s construction and casino boss version.

That's why they have pimps. They don't take kindly to Johns who don't pay.

I think it was fairly clear what North was *trying* to accomplish — be a heartwarming fable about how, no matter how bad you might think your parents are, you really love them and vice versa deep down. Was it a failure at doing that? Hell, yes. But you can see what it was going for.

Well, yes, but even so, there weren't really the global existential problems in the 1990s that there were before and after it despite whatever local problems existed. When I was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, the big fear was nuclear war. Nowadays we fear total environmental collapse and that things like democracy…

I miss the sort of world-weary semi-dystopian technological future that so many 90s works (including this) postulated. As if the only problem facing us was that we might somehow lose our humanity through overuse of technology. This was a problem for an era that didn't really have serious problems to worry about.

I actually suffered the humiliating fact of a chess defeat against a 9-year old recently. Some friends of mine have a son who is actually playing in tournaments and who knows I used to play in tournaments as a teen and set up the match. Granted, I've mostly been playing Go for the last decade, but it still stung.

To be fair, Journey really *was* a 1970s band that just happened to survive into the 1980s.

Yeah, couldn't Spielberg just stick to his usual wholesome family subjects of Nazis (Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981) and murderous ghosts (Poltergeist, 1982 — written and produced by Spielberg, and like Gremlins, Spielberg's name was all over it even if he didn't formally direct it). But seriously, even before…

Today, yeah sure. Bad marriages in pop culture are a cliche at this point and it is practically more subversive to show a marriage or family that isn't dysfunctional now. But you have to remember the time frame when marriage was typically held up as the only way to happiness.

I think what learn from the movie/play is that Google and the IMDB are the strongest forces supporting marital bliss. The whole argument would be resolved today with George pulling out his phone, tapping away, and saying "Beyond the Forest. 1949. Directed by King Vidor. That's where it's from."

If it were trying to mirror the 2000 election, the President would be Bizzaro and Luthor would be *vice-president*.

Wohlleben is a German "Förster", which is different from "forest ranger" in the American sense — he isn't a security guard for a campground as the latter implies but has an academic background in the science of forestry. And Mancuso is hardly alone in studying plant information processing, although, yes, calling it…

No, I'm not "trolling" — I'm just not impressed with the arguments that use circular reasoning to say that because our response to stimuli is based on nerve cells, that this means that's the only form of response to stimuli that merits consideration. We are learning that plants actually are far more complex than…

Yes. I've suggested it to people but they often look at me quizzically — in a lot of people's minds VM was dismissed as a "Dawson's Creek" clone rather than the sort of series that people who like Buffy would appreciate.

"That is not John Stamos!" — Princess Carolyn

Although the movie itself actually has modern rather than classical music, including electronica from the French band "College" which I discovered thanks to the movie and which remains one of my favorites today

"Poverty Diarrhea" - didn't they break up like a decade ago?