To be fair, he didn’t do anything bad himself directly in the books — it’s just that he created a movement which he couldn’t control that did terrible shit in his name.

Maybe because it involves an older Paul they can bring back Kyle McLachlan, who is a way better actor.

Be fair. It wasn’t entirely a Taxi Driver ripoff. There was a fair bit of The King of Comedy in there too.

In some places like Saudi Arabia, yes, royals still are political figures and have real power. But the British royal family (like the rest of the European ones) just are rich people whose job is *not* to be political. When the late queen happened to mention that she hoped Scotland wouldn’t leave the UK it was quite a…

People even complained about Toy Story at the time like using computers for animation was wrong because people didn’t physically draw the frames.

An idle person is Xenu’s tool!

I think it is sad that (at least according to my student niece and nephew) that university film societies seem to have died in general. When I was an undergrad in the late 1980s/early 1990s, we had these societies that you could join that showed classic movies in those big lecture halls for intro classes that could…

There’s also the fact that you’ve grown older in the meantime and maybe learned that a tragedy that killed over 1500 real people shouldn’t be reduced to the love story of two fictional ones. Which was the same problem of the terrible Pearl Harbor movie, but nobody thought that was good.

Or you know, now. The Japanese even more so than the West because they are even more paranoid of immigrants and have only a tiny percentage of them. Which is a problem for them as they have a bigger percentage of elderly people and nobody to take care of them. They even have a word for elderly people who die alone in…

But what I wish the film devoted more time to is whether the monolith on the moon was deliberately buried.

Or pees on the floor because they can’t find the bathroom. Or catches on fire and dies while cooking. Note that I haven't played the games since Sims 3 - I don't know if 4 made the people less idiotic.

I thought so too, but then realized I was thinking of J.T. Walsh (not a relative as far as I know, and hard to confuse with each other other than that they both often played charming scumbags).

and as well-meaning and genuine characters like the swim coach from Ordinary People

Or Paul Bunyan — he could just wade through the Mediterranean, assuming  he ever left the US.

The original also took a lot of Cthulhu Mythos stuff, which was amazing at the time because so few games had yet to incorporate it. These days it’s becoming a cliche and it’s kind of expected that any game with weird or spooky things going on will eventually have some connection to Cthulhu, the Necronomicon, or the…

A few years ago, I was backpacking through Europe and ended up in Malta

I like the description of one of the attractions there.

Definitely Anya Taylor-Joy. Like Duvall, her eyes are a bit off so she looks like a live-action cartoon character.

Don’t forget all the 1960s sitcoms! I’m solidly GenX, but I can describe most of the episodes of Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie, and Gilligan’s Island to this day due to repeated exposure.