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Please euthanize me if I ever become this type of old person. 

I think the better analog is Madonna. But really, everybody on the right, but especially the religious right, are marks, and somebody is always gonna come along to exploit them. 

Maybe don’t make thinly veiled racist/ homophobic remarks then, dickweed. 

Of course. If a 30 something was singing it from the remove of memory with the immediacy Rodrigo sings it would be ludicrous.

I don’t think it’s for anyone except 14-17 year olds, but it’s a sterling example of a song for 14-17 year olds. 

Yeah, I’d def rather hang with South of Heaven rather than their opposite because people who think that the ending of Titanic is fine don’t bring it up unprompted. 

I understand why non-film buffs bounce off of Citizen Kane: it’s a slow, methodical movie with a bone simple narrative, and, like the original tweet said, everything in it from a narrative perspective has been done countless times since then.

The reason film buffs keep recommending it is because the camera work is… Read more

I’m bummed, but only because Andre Braugher was alway note perfect and hilarious as Holt. 

The most exciting thing about Sea Shanty Tik Tok is that Master and Commander might get some love, because it whips ass.

I feel the same way. You can dance around any totem pole you want, so long as you don’t expect me to learn the steps.

The opposite of faith is not agnosticism, it’s atheism. I’m an agnostic atheist myself; I don’t know if there is an afterlife or a God, as that question is unanswerable except by dying. But I have no… Read more

It really is the best of the big streaming services for movies. 

Chris Columbus is such a fucking hack who has no concept of cinematic language.

There’s a scene in this movie where Harry is trying to get around Snape and the twist villian while wearing his invisibility cloak. We see the whole scene from his perspective because there’s invisibility cloak filter all over it. Except,…

The KC Monarchs played in the Negro Leagues.

Also, Driving Miss Daisy did not win a victory over Do the Right Thing, because the latter wasn’t even nominated for Best Picture.

It’d be like saying that the ‘29 Yankees earned a victory over the Kansas City Monarchs. 

Oh, ZERO confidence, which is why he upholds traditional gender norms so fiercely. He gets to be above 50% of the population simply by virtue of being born with a penis, even though he’s a weak, distasteful, off-putting nerdlinger.

If misogyny is the bully, Ben is the bully’s toady.

I don’t think the complaint of the first book was that it was about Cline’s interests, but that he didn’t synthesize something new out of those interests and fell back on pure reference of them. It was like reading “Family Guy: The Novel”

Or, to put it better:

You seem fun. 

The gag that the most average person in the world would love James Corden is good. The fact that it means the movie had to cast James Corden is bad. 

I find I have real trouble liking most performers who came up through the theater in other mediums. They’re so grasping and hammy. 

Scratch a cynic, find a humanist.