“this may just be untenable.” I think you mean... it may just be un-Tenet-able!

It needs to be on the tombstone: People Use Their Phone to Do Shit While They Watch Netflix on Another Thing, and If They’re Using Their Phone To Watch, Then They’re Watching Netflix and Not Your Weird Fucking Thing

Oliver Stone and Martin Scorsese should’ve directed a movie together during their mutual High Cocaine Period. It would’ve been a cross between Natural Born Killers and Bring Out Y0ur Dead, and the sheer cult movie insanity of it all would’ve melted the screen...and the audience.

Boy, I certainly can’t think of another industry that’s as famously warm and forgiving about difficult people who badmouth their colleagues as Hollywood.

I’d flip that. A deserved cultural phenomenon because it’s Hollywood spectacle at its biggest and most magisterial. But as a story? Utterly lacking.

In lieu of reading my whole comment, you could just watch this Community video and get the gist:

i saw buckcherry in the late 90s, as a sheltered kid who didn’t know anything about drugs and even *i* knew that those guys were taking a *lot* of heroin. There is no way you can convince me that they are still alive

Most conspiracy theorists aren’t in it because they are good at gathering data, considering sources, weighing evidence appropriately, and coming to the most reasonable conclusion. It’s more a combination of one or more factors like a desire to impose some kind of order, even a sinister one, on a chaotic environment…

blithely referring to the pandemic in the past tense really pissed me off. Fuck Larry Kudlow. They’re trying to sweep ~200k dead Americans and health care workers under the rug because it’s too embarrassing for President Fucking J. Moron. What a gigantic slap in the face to those people and their families.

The market wasn’t big enough for two Patrick Warburton magazines, so all we have left is Puddy. And even that’s just a quarterly now!

I experienced a really interesting situation many years ago when my son wanted to play “Hey Jude” on the piano. I wanted to buy him a legal copy on iTunes but it wasn’t available. I found a copy on Bittorent, but it was part of a torrent including the Beatles’ entire discography. It was literally easier and cheaper…

Except the 1984 T-800 and the 1991 T-800 were sent back from the future right after each other, so no one there knows that “a guy who looks like Schwarzenegger went on a killing spree.”

Yeah, until they introduced that “New Coke” bullshit. Still, they realised their mistake and brought back the original recipe, which they sold as “Cocaine Classic”.

The 80s. It was a different time.

Also, this comments section - with its deep dives into this film and a bunch of others, and genial movie-nerd vibe - is giving me old-school AVClub-comments-section vibes, and I’m enjoying the hell out of it.

What is Joe Pesci if not the exact midpoint between Robert De Niro and Jon Lovitz?

Three old men in a trenchcoat!

Yeah, that was a book where, even at the time I read it at about 11 or so, I thought to myself “oh, this is R.A. Salvatore for adults!”, because even at that tender age, I recognized the combination of technology fetishism, and the plot contrivances required to keep the situation from going nuclear, which would have…

‘Kingdom Come’ is, in my experience, the best Batman-and-Superman-as-rivals story there is. Frank Miller went too far, in my opinion, making Clark ridiculously earnest and Bruce a psychopath. But Waid and Ross really drilled down into the philosophies of the two characters and why they have such different approached…

Everybody has that one movie that they will love forever, regardless of the passage of time or how they change as a person. 1989 Batman is that movie for me.