“Your Name.” deserves the anime slot more than Spirited Away. I’ve never felt the threads of a film come together so completely well as Your Name. (I love Spirited Away, to be clear). My partner never connects with anime, but he’s a film guy. I made him watch it and he immediately ordered the Bluray. 

Sean Hannity gets taken to school for a good ol’ fashion ass whoopin!

America did not want to switch to metric because it was what scientists and Europeans use and we have seen how much ‘Merica loves science.

Considering that US-based English speakers are a global minority, no, the percentage of English speakers not using Fahrenheit scale is not small at all.

32ºF

I am horribly American, every time I have eaten at a starred restaurant my thoughts were “ya, that tasted pretty good, but it cost too damned much for the amount of food”. I’ll take more quantity and a tad less pretention.

Until penalties include both financial consequences that significantly hurt shareholders AND penal consequences that see corporate officers and executives serving actual and substantial prison sentences, nothing will change.

First gen NSX.

I’m not sure what the exact process is to get out of Pending purgatory, but I hope the star I just gave you helps! (And I didn’t do it out of charity. Your post is the type I support and would like to see more of.)

Because when Parasite won, Twitter was nothing but fascists bitching about commie Oscars.

Ignored.  The word you’re looking for is ignored.

Or we could, you know, knock down all these arbitrary geographic boundaries that have carved up the planet in the name of profit, especially now that the actual barriers that made this system somewhat justifiable in the past have completely disappeared.

The poor family were poor because they were trapped in a cycle of poverty, wherein every little or big thing that befalls them is a monumental setback. If a rich person gets in a car crash and breaks their legs, it is a deep annoyance to go to the hospital, potentially have surgery, go to months of rehab, catch up on…

Young inexperienced white teenager.

Yeah? Who'd ya fuckin vote for?

This is the most US-ian comment I’ve ever seen here.

I get that, and I’m not Korean, but I took the movie as kind of going, “here are the deep structures of society” that allow the rich to be nice and polite, and not examine their roles in the inequality they benefit from (because there is no pressure on them to, as they get cheap labor easily, get to maintain a polite…

Deadly games as a concept far predates As the Gods Will, and the “red light green light” game is one of the most common children’s game in Asia. It’s a whole lot of nothing. Just fanboys being fanboys.

It’s also hilarious how Korean media invariably uses fat uncaring american capitalists as the generic bad guys the same way Hollywood always used to use Nazis or the Russians.

This review is spot on; the first episode makes this seem like just another spin on the Battle Royale genre but the second episode is what really elevates it to something special.