It’s very simple: we just need to build a giant freezer to store them in so that they come tumbling out any time someone opens it to get something out. Then in November they get thrown out anyways because the next cookie season is about to start.

I rewatched this again recently for the first time since theaters and man it’s such a great movie. I hope it gets a similar re-evaluation and devoted following that the original has.

It’s the legs, man. You absolutely know you’re eating a bug leg. You can feel the little bristles. I’ve had cricket before and couldn’t get past it. 

Even as a resident of this state, it’s still kind of amazing to me how Abbott has given up any pretense of governance and it’s just all culture war all the time. Then again, his landslide re-election is all but assured no matter what he does, so might as well put it to the test, I guess. 

What are the odds he refers to himself and Skyhorse as “disruptors”.

Well that’s the thing: voters put republicans in office to do nothing or even better, just Burn It All Down. Doing something for your constituents (other than hurting people that don’t look like them, of course) would imply that government works. And they don’t want that. And their voters have been fed a steady diet…

 . . . Along with Gerta, the Oinking Car!

I grew up on the toys first and lived in a market that didn’t have the cartoon, which introduced the whole idea of Prince Adam, orko, by the power of greyskull, etc. So when I finally saw it, it threw me for a loop and I always kind of resented that angle.

Yeah the “50 years” line had me thinking for a split second their math was off; they just said it was 70s influenced and that wasn’t fif . . ty . . . years . . . ago. Oh. 

Oh my god HARD flashback it’s 1985, I’m in Babbage’s, and I can smell the Sbarro’s across the way. Welp, off to Waldenbooks!

Brimley is legit menacing in the role, and yet at the same time when Cruise beats the shit out of him at the end there’s this reflexive “Nooooo not grampa!” feeling I get.

Yeah the incinerator scene gets alot of press, but it’s the end that’s the kick in the gut. You’re already at heightened emotions from how harrowing the incinerator scene is, you get this flood of relief that they didn’t go there, then five minutes later Andy is saying goodbye and you just can’t hold it anymore. I saw…

This movie has an ace instance of the Tom Cruise Run, one of the first I can remember. He has an argument or something with Tripplehorn, she runs out of the house sobbing. He bursts out of the door and goes after her like a T1000; it’s so completely disproportionate in intensity to how she’s running and she can’t have…

I don’t know what it is about Patriot Games but I just find it dull, dull, dull. I’ve seen it three times including once in theaters and have nodded off every time. Love HFRO and C&PD though. The latter has a very early taste of verite-style, shaky cam action that would come to dominate the form in some of the…

My daughter and my wife have been beside themselves with excitement for this all month. They’re both huge fans of the books and it has already been decreed that I WILL be watching (i.e., inevitably falling asleep during) this with them. 

“Michael we’ve got a loose ball bearing on the x-9 unit in the airlock. Can you check it out?”

Ah. I forget how much of the show I didn’t see after I stopped watching. I don’t have any memory of Cardellini’s husband and that kidnapping so I guess that was after I stopped. And I never saw Stamos, either. 

Why, he might just shit his pants. 

Speaking of guest turns, Ray Liotta’s episode got me back on the ER wagon for a few years after stopping for a bit. I was always a sucker for ER road trip episodes. This arc hit close to home with my wife and I since her mother was at the time having mental health issues as well that were ALOT.

In Houston, at least, this came out the same week as Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy. I remember a friend and I wanted to see both one night and I looked up times. KiTHBC was playing closer to us and it was still a 30 minute drive away. The MST movie was further away and even then was only playing at midnight or…