Nothing’s wrong with that. It’s more that the music was designed to tear down another person. So it feels less like they’re celebrating good music, and more like they’re celebrating having humiliated someone they don’t like. Which I find a little tasteless. I find the whole thing kind of tasteless, but, like the…

I’ll fully admit, I’m a white guy and not a huge fan of modern hip-hop. I think it’s great that music people like is coming out of this, and I absolutely don’t want to see anybody getting killed over this or anything. It’s just the viciousness of some this stuff bothers me.

Does anyone else just kind of find this stupid? They’re grown men, very successful, lots of money, and they’re acting like petty teenagers. And no matter how tough they act, they’re still two adults who dislike each other so much that they had to sing about it. All I can picture is the rapping equivalent of Kevin…

It’s also a reassurance to the person asking. It lets them go on with their lives. They want to think the person is improving, not that life is hell and they sometimes think about stepping in front of a train.

It’s too bad people can’t go right ahead and “say it.” Countless people are thinking it. Too many people are being driven to do it. You can be honest and then lose your freedom. That’s fucked up. I support compassionate choices no matter the reason.

Can’t blame her at all. MS sounds like utter hell.

Not to mention Future Biff in Back to the Future 2 being based on Trump:

Berlin’s a big city. There’s no way she can’t do better than that guy.

Franka Potente was also great opposite her countrywoman Diane Kruger on The Bridge. Apparently they had to shut down production one day so they could watch the famous world cup soccer match where Germany beat Brazil

You mean, besides how she criticized him on Twitter? The piece presumes that he’s telling the truth that they really met at an NBC upfront and she gushed over him, only to later criticize him. I’m saying that he’s probably making up the former in response to the latter. There’s no evidence that it happened; in fact,…

One things that’s really weird about Trump’s success is that I never got the impression he was especially admired before he went all political. If you’d asked me 15 years ago which non-politician celebs were most likely to be president someday, he wouldn’t have been high on my list.

There was a girl I was absolutely in love with who was obsessed with going to see art house movies at the Music Box in Chicago and we must have saw this movie a dozen times there one summer. She was not a keeper because she always wanted to go the Music Box, she only wanted to watch “art” films there and would shoot…

Well, duh! Actors like Messing are probably used to flattering slimy entertainment industry bigwigs for the sake of their jobs, but that doesn’t mean she’d endorse him for president of the country. Plus, Messing’s show was off the air by the time Trump launched his campaign, so she certainly didn’t have to pretend…

A 2020's rewatch of this (first in quite some time) drove home one particular thing like never before: how much Manni sucks

“and has a lot of action on her own, away from Bourne.”

I recently rewatched it, and it certainly struck me that if the movie was made today, you’d have a bunch of people raised on CinemaSins whining about how the “rules” are never explained. But it truly just never crosses your mind when you’re actually watching the thing, and you just accept its existence as a one of a…

Hey, there’s at least on other piece of German cinema that took hold of the Simpsons’ writer’s room:

The movie also provides a nice little snap shot in time of post-unification Berlin when it was still in its Bohemian stage. 

Run Lola Run is one of the few German films to briefly capture American pop culutre’s attention back then so much that even The Simpsons and a few other shows did parodies of it.

I was introduced to the film when I was in high school, taking german class, and it was a mind-blowing introduction to modern European cinema and way more interesting than the stupid TV show designed for learners we also had to watch. A couple of years later in University it was one of the first movies I acquired in a…