Guinn’s book about Manson really was eye-opening. I came away from that thinking ‘Really? That’s what it was all about, a recording contract?”

Yes, a group of gun-toting liberals kidnapping and hunting red-staters is chillingly prescient, a scenario bound to happen any day now... yes sir, any day now... just, yeah, definitely going to happen...

Good call. I lived (and now still do) in the same county as Columbine High School, and my best friend at the time’s mother taught there, and escaped that day. That event really cast a shadow over the culture that year, including pop culture (movies pulled, names changed). Especially where I lived it was a topic for…

Show some respect... it was pretty fucking far from his best movie, but STG also had Rutger Hauer in a main role. 

Your “Dylan? Is that right?” parenthetical was a very transparent tell... You know damn well he played Dylan.

I’m glad I saw this opening weekend, before all the weird theories and faux outrages surfaced. Anyone even slightly paying attention to everything written about the movie the past 10 days would’ve had most of it spoiled. 

I’m among the group that doesn’t see Brad Pitt’s thing with Bruce Lee as being a daydream or hallucination or whatever. I thought it was obviously a memory/flashback.

Umm, SPOILER (if that’s necessary).

William Golding’s Lord Of The Flies—arguably the best book about kids trying to kill each other from before every other book was about kids trying to kill each other.”

“Sheeeeeeeeee-it” - Sen. Clay Davis 

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Nice. Although it’s a cliche, during the last year I’ve really been intrigued by the historical misinterpretation of that song.

It goes off in some weird directions at times, but, yeah, when he initially picks up John Ryder it’s just an expertly acted scene, and scary as hell because there’s a real feel of, ‘oh yeah, this could totally happen in real life.’ 

Very cool. I read TDHW when it came out and again about 10 years ago. I didn’t know that it especially had a following, so seeing this thread is gratifying.

“Hold on a minute... I gotta turn!”

You should see the Huffington Post, or HuffPost*. Their bashing of Biden has reached surreal levels. They’ll literally run multiple hit-pieces a day, sometimes based on nothing. At first I thought it was meant to elevate the other Democratic candidates, but it’s SO emphatic that I too am starting to see conspiracies,…

As someone who was a fan of RATM in college, and followed politics closely years later, the revelation by Paul Ryan that that was his favorite band was stupefying beyond belief, to the extent that I question if he just made it up.

I concur. From personal interactions I’ve also noticed that “you never know” is the default rejoinder of old people whose logic is questioned.

Alls I know is that it was truly inspiring to see the D-Day centennial earlier this summer. 

It’s good to see Aja still in the game, and that’s great that he’s saluting nature-run-amok! horror from the 70s/80s, however, something that’s not his fault either: this movie suffers from a seemingly very modern problem: the trailer shows so much that there’s really the sense that it basically shows the movie,…