It has it’s weaknesses- no Independancy-minded country these days would adopt it without substantial updates.

The current Republican regime is the culmination of everything the GOP have been working for since the 60s.  (or Regan's 2nd campaign at the absolute latest)

Congratulations

In this household we indeed respect Slim Pickens!

Cliff is explaining how all the Cheers regulars can atone for a prank they shouldn’t have pulled. He brings up the movie, explains the plot, and suggests they take revenge on themselves. While explaining the plot he compliments Fonda’s performance and suggests that both Moscow and New York had it coming. That’s the…

He also (at least once that we know of) dropped his glasses in a toilet.

“The film ended and all I could say was, “He did it. He actually nuked NYC.””

I saw it performed live in small theatre, pared down to just the President, translator and the war hawk advisor, with the rest of performances just disembodied voices over radio. It still worked powerfully.

The battle to the big screen between the two movies is worthy of a mini-documentary in itself.

In the book, the encounter is a prick at his conscience. She is undoubtedly a monster who fetishizes mass death, and she is held up in the narrative as a reflection of himself that he does not wish to see or confront. It lingers later when he is enthusiastically advocating for the President to go through with a total…

He knows he looks like Walter Matthau, so he realizes something is up with her.

lots of clapping

Clooney produced a live version of this for NBC a billion years ago. It was well cast but suffered from a lot of the same things that modern live shows have (poor pacing, stilted performances, etc.).

The last 10% will kinda suck, but then they will make some followup movies that still kinda suck. Then they will remaster them and still not really fix the ending.....Then they will make all new retelling the theme park pretty faithfully at first but then going completely in a new direction in the gate and then never…

we don’t really talk about it but yeah

Was her soul absorbed into the giant robot your dad forces you to pilot?

“fans can also hop into an entry plug, the cylindrical cockpit device used to pilot Eva units,”

No meat touching, ma'am!

BOOM BABY HELL YEAH

I would watch this.