“Tobias, a soft-spoken young American co-pilot” — will JGL (age 39) ever not be “young”? It seems like part of his persona. Here’s Charles Bronson at the same age:

For me that movie was Batman and Robin.

I feel that Chandler is the whitest friend.

I also like the one where he’s the young Chosen One in a Divergent/Hunger Games parody.

I never bothered to parse that particular issue BUT I just listened to an interview on NPR with a journalist who is interested in whales and apparently scientists are trying to decode whale communications and I absolutely want to know more about that.  

“middle aged moment” -- ouch.  I didn’t know that was a thing.

When I was in my ‘20s my friend and I were sitting in a park and two men sitting nearby conducted a loud conversation, with several glances our way, about how if they saw someone raping a woman, they would intervene. So charming. Definitely made me want to date them.

This is going back a ways, but I really loved the opening music for Angel.  Great use of cello.

I remember this marketing slant too.  You were supposed to take the title at face value.

Well, in any story about an old man, you have the fact that he’s not going to be around for long, so there’s that inhibition to uplift. The Straight Story has Lynchian weirdness and a G rating, which is an amazing combination, but imho it really works because of Richard Farnsworth, who was just all sad-eyed charisma.…

Totally.  So many callbacks.  I love it.

Kind of like the alternate ending to Get Out where he ends up in prison—I was just thinking about that the other day. In both cases, the correct decision was made. Jesus.

I love the talking dogs and I think the first five minutes lends transcendence to the entire movie.

It’s a solid contender for a desert island movie! For me another one is The Straight Story, and the two movies have a lot in common.

Brilliant analysis, this nails something I never could quite figure out (and needed to for a personal project, so thank you!!). Really driven home by embedding the Captain America video, too. Of all the Marvel movies, for me that’s the one that truly bears rewatching, for exactly the reasons you articulate.

I was excited for this just knowing the concept and casting, but the fact that they decided to erase her children really irritates me. I understand it would have been harder to do the Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf thing if they’d included the kids, but still. She wrote what she did with four children underfoot, it…

Fair enough, oldtimer. But I can correlate the introduction of metallic bag squeezy cheese to no later than 1989, because I recall that right around when Moonlighting ended, so did the glorious Tuesday nights when my parents left me home alone to make my own dinner and watch TV.

Hey don’t leave out us over-40s.  I have delicious memories involving the mac & cheese that came with the squeeze packet of processed orange “cheese.”  

That’s fantastic!!  What a great experience.

Thanks for putting some text up there instead of video only! Enjoyed reading it.