I wish I could hire someone to follow me around with that gif so I stopped getting into meaningless internet arguments.

If that was the title of the article, I wouldn’t have read it.

I can (slightly) one-up the William Hughes story about seeing The Matrix. I didn’t just go into the theater knowing nothing about the plot— I went in with a completely backwards idea of what the plot was going to be. I’d been a fan of William Gibson since “Neuromancer” and “Burning Chrome”, and I figured that I was…

With movies, my ideal approach is to sort of obliquely hear something is good - usually through festival reviews or seeing the letter grade here on AVC - then studiously avoid learning anything about it. I avoid trailers and try to not even know the basic premise or the genre if I can help it.

For realz, have this experience every time I turn on TMC. That channel is worth paying for cable.

One day I happened to see the 1955 movie Kiss Me Deadly on teevee. I had no idea what was coming on. It started out weird and kept getting weirder.

This confirms my worst suspicions about this movie. (Not to mention the trailer copy, “the next chapter in the Sicario saga.”)

Here and there, Connolly throws in archival footage from the period, presumably to add some New York flavor to a film that was shot almost entirely in Cincinnati.

I was at a sorority party in college that included a seated dinner. One of my idiot friends stood up, said “watch this” and pulled 12 full settings of glasses and tablewear onto the floor. It was AWESOME. He was banned from future parties.

In defense of revving your engine for reasons other than to be cool, if you ever had a shitty old carbeurated car, sometimes it’s the only way to keep them running at idle :)

Flying through the air in slo-mo, firing a gun in either hand at an army of mortal enemies while doves majestically take flight from the shattered industrial landscape in which I met my foes.

I’ve been listening to Howlin’ Wolf’s “Chess Masters” boxed set...and you should, too. I mean, after you’ve listened to what you’re listening to now.

Osmosis Jones: A Star Wars Story

The thrust of your post still stands, but “original” perp? Naw. I remember as a 4th grader learning what “pubic hairs” were by listening to Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings long before I ever heard of the comeback kid.

— Golf clap

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Love the shoutout to Scott Tobias and I will take this opportunity to remind all commenters to listen to The Next Picture Show Podcast because it freaking rocks :-)

And Porkin’s 2: The Next Day...

Or my body? That’s it........Easter’s cancelled!

He devotes quite a few of them to it, and even more to the important life lessons he learned at the side of grocery store manager Harry Howell, who managed a high-school-aged James Comey with “with compassion and understanding.”