Roadhouse is gleefully dumb, but it’s also one of the most entertaining movies of the decade. It’s infinitely rewatchable. I doubt this will be.

That’s Doctor of Philosophy, thank you very much.

A by-the-book actioner that’s sunk by indifferent performances, muddled storylines, and stilted dialogue.

Everyone in the original knew exactly what kind of ridiculous film they were making and just went for it. And I’ll bet there’s no one in this version who can begin to match Sam Elliott’s contribution.

I mean, it’s not like the original Road House was getting four-star (or even three-star) reviews when it came out. If I recall, it was pretty universally panned. But at least the original was entertaining.

Jake Gyllenhaal strikes me as a weird little theatre imp (in a positive way) who also happens to be willing to be superhero buff. I’d disagree with people who say he doesn’t have charisma, but it’s a more malovelent, mischievous charisma - his intensity in films like Zodiac or Nightcrawler is amazing, and then on the…

Thanks for the write-up!

“Video games are art!”

There’s 18 articles so far today. Just two of them are about Baldur’s Gate 3, and of those only this one is on the topic of sex. You then have to go alllllll the way back to August 16th to find the most recent one before that on the topic (from any game), and that one is the article about speed-running to the first…

He also, even after taking great care of you, is willing to open up the relationship if that’s your jam.

Probably a combination of being told the world was going to shit but don’t worry, we’d grow up to fix it (and it was all on us, good luck kids!) because if we worked hard, we could do anything, and then realizing that being saddled with student loan debt and graduating in a recession (as I did, anyway) while being…

I swear to god I’ll pistol whip the next guy that says “woke culture”

Nah, it’s typical deranged misogyny. Imagine following a professional surfer’s Instagram, liking a bunch of her surfing pics, then once you start dating her, going back through all of her pics and sending her specific ones to take down because you think they’re too revealing and pretending that she violated your…

She’s a surfer and she’s not allowed to surf with men or post photos in a bathing suit? Are you kidding me? That goes way beyond boundaries. He’s asking her to change who she is so he doesn’t feel insecure.

Well apparently I’m not that smart. I’ve been paying $19.99 a month for Netflix Premium, which means, straight from Netflix’s site: “Watch on 4 different devices at the same time with Premium”. So how was that stealing if my girlfriend or parents want to what something at the same time? Since, you know, I was already…

Explain to me how exactly this stealing. I’m paying for a certain number of simultaneous streaming connections at a time.

This is the classic message of “we do wrong” in a very priest style and which tries to bring the feeling of guilt but does not address the most typical password sharing cases: family. People who share the same home. Dynamic IPs. People who have to go to work to another place or students. Unless rules and ethics have…

It’s like if Coca-Cola said “starting on May 23, we’re going to start selling cans of frogs instead. From that day on, when you open a can of Coke, there will be a live frog inside it,” and then Pepsi waited until May 23 and quietly started selling cans of snakes. Everyone would be so stunned that Coke actually went…

As luck would have it, this coincides with me installing Plex on my home server and spending the last few weeks ripping my entire film collection into it, so if I do ditch Netflix, I’ll be ok for a year or two.

What money? Nobody here makes any money.