My dad used to drink Special Export, which to my knowledge isn't made anymore. In fact, since no one I talk to has ever heard of that beer, I wonder if the neighborhood liquor store was making it in a bathtub.

It really is one of the worst beers in wide distribution. PBR or regular Coors (not Lite) taste more like actual beer and less like runoff from the dumpster behind a brewery.

Nice handle. "Is not a boy entitled to the tears on his cheeks?"

She was a rock solid singles machine for years. She doesn't really have "deep cuts," even though her albums are inexplicably twelve songs each, but Toxic is Toxic.

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Edgerton's character mentions that he knew Shannon's character before Shannon's parents took him to join the cult (Dunst's character probably wasn't raised in it, since the cult goons have to ask her mother's identity). During Driver's interviews with the cultists, there's a line in passing about the reverend raising…

Doubly ironic because some of the best shots in Repo Man are cars driving down streets at night.

I liked the "Where's Waldo, only creepy" aspect of searching for the creature in some of those shots, the basic premise was pretty clever for found-footage, and for an amateur production the pace and acting was solid.

It's kind of remarkable just because the Slenderman is less than a decade old, and its origin is publicly available on a message board, which makes believing in it extra-weird. I'm curious if the kids actually believed the Slenderman was real, or if this was one of those weird adolescent things where he was just the…

My religion is based entirely on that first season Buffy episode where Willow finds a demon on the internet.

That movie is not great, but the porny flute-based score and the bored sounding Orson Welles narration are pure gold.

He had a sudden urge to examine his genitals in the bathroom, even though he had already examined them thoroughly earlier that day.

Don't worry, nobody quits sniffing glue. They just put off that next sniff for a while.

My point is simply that the relationship between fiction and reality is mediated by the style of the fiction. Worthwhile fiction usually reflects reality in a meaningful way, but the onus is still on the reader (or viewer) to decide how much reality they actually see.

At the same time, the separation between what appears on screen and what happens in real life has to be taken in context. Actual mental illness is better represented in media now than it has been in the past, which decreases the impact of a non-representation like this movie. It's sort of like the separation between…

As people have noted upthread, it's weird to say that a movie about multiple personalities is about "mental illness," since the existence of that particular illness is debatable. Unless the movie engages in the irresponsible (and thankfully less common) practice of presenting multiple personalities as…

The words "they should've cast Edward Norton" are true for (quick calculations) 0% of movies.*

I have trouble taking ghost movies seriously because ghosts don't exist.

The longstanding tendency to equate multiple personalities with schizophrenia was probably a bigger problem, since schizophrenia is common and debilitating, and people with it are not helped by the perception that they have multiple, potentially dangerous personalities.

She plays Young Obama's girlfriend in Barry. Spoiler alert: It doesn't work out.