I don’t know, that cult seemed to be the only people having any fun in the movie. I’d love to see what that weird crew of middle-aged eccentrics were up to in 1960s NYC. 

It’s also right after the first Gulf War, and with the Beirut bombing in recent memory... And Libya and Iran were seen as threats through the previous decade in real life news as well as film (remember who Doc Brown was selling plutonium to)

I think it’s because there’s so much fluffy coverage of entertainment and gushing interviews about what talented geniuses the stars are, and the interviewers never call them on their bullshit about how they worked as hard as anyone else and didn’t get any favors.

Guy takes a popular working class restaurant and turns it into bougie fine dining only assholes can afford and we’re supposed to applaud that even though it’s one of the things destroying livability in our cities

I like the last couple of seasons of Veep a lot, but it did become a different show... More like a live action cartoon in the vein of 30 Rock.

Dakota Johnson is making fun of a movie that’s almost universally panned and made fun of relentlessly on the internet. She’s showing she gets the joke and there’s not a lot of danger of pissing anyone off.

Maybe she’s just not meant to be a movie star. I think she’d probably do better in a TV series. Like a dry comedy that let her play a version of herself.

I never see that episode brought up as some major accomplishment in television or even the series.

Yeah, in some cases, but the Daily Show is a news program as much as a comedy and I think that makes it worth preserving and being made accessible in some way.

Maybe not so much for entertainment, but there’s value for researchers, journalists, academics...  There are thousands of interviews with politicians and others who aren’t often interviewed for example.

Did John Oliver write this article?

Pluto is going downhill a bit. It seems like they’ll endlessly run the same block of episodes on dedicated channels too. Like it’s the same few Kids in the Hall month after month, never changed around. 

Tubi has a lot of crazy b-movies (or even lower grade) that are really interesting but would never meet Criterion’s standards too. It’s pretty incredible if you’re into trash cinema, grindhouse etc

Commercials are very annoying if I sit down to actively watch a good movie, especially if I’m not alone, but for background entertainment (like to half-watch when on the computer or doing chores) I don’t care if a commercial interrupts some dumb 90s thriller or old TV show on Tubi or Pluto. 

One method these streamers use is to automate looking for fades to black to insert ads and that’s an imprecise science at best. Sometimes it’s just at x minutes no matter if that’s in the middle of a scene or not, which Tubi can definitely be guilty of. 

It’s just odd to me how shows like Euphoria and Yellowjackets that are about teens don’t rush to get their seasons in while the actors still look the part. 

Tubi has literally thousands more movies than Pluto including a lot of really obscure underground stuff that’s nearly impossible to find elsewhere. Pluto’s live channels are a lot better though.

“Why would anyone work for three years on something that wasn’t yours? Why?”

She should have put in 10 years of playing honky tonks and hotel bars in obscurity before being discovered. 

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