I feel like a more general discussion about the merits/demerits of reddit and other internet echo chambers (using that meme/conversation as a possible example of a problem) is a better tactic than openly confronting someone about their beliefs.

Honestly, with the upgrade in technology it's more like going from the 1925 Lon Chaney Hunchback of Notre Dame to Charles Laughton's 1939 version. It'll be sad to lose some the both good and bad quirks of the original, but there's also plenty of opportunity for the new film to be fun.

As long as there's an actual joke and not just a reference, a kids cartoon can fit in a lot stuff kids won't "get" and they won't care. I had no idea who Peter Lorre or Edward G. Robinson was when I watched Loony Toons, but their weird voices and exaggerated faces were still funny. And I've certainly had lots of "Oh…

I wanted to get an au pair for the French immersion but they don't really seem to be into breast-feeding.

But then the kid always starts crying while I'm trying to complete my transaction! Or did you mean I should hire the the sex worker for the kid?

There is no such thing as personal space on the Orange Line.

That's easy. You just start a line in that direction, stop, and then spend 30 years saying you'll finish it some day.

I'm in a relationship with someone far younger than me, and while it was fun at first, they keep waking me up in the middle of the night and demanding that I stay home from work to take care of them all the time. They also need me to keep putting them in diapers 24/7 and are refusing to drink anything other than milk…

Is it too early to introduce your child to The Lady Vanishes?

My friend and I were at a hostel in China, and another guy in the room was a Brazilian Mormon on his mission. The three of us went out to find some dinner and got to talking about what we were doing there, what we wanted to eat, etc. Then the Mormon kid just stops in the middle of conversation, leans in toward us and…

There's also John Ford's Wagon Master from 1950, about two trail guides helping a Mormon wagon train get to Utah.

Lillian Gish and that kid were abiding everything long before the Dude ever mixed a White Russian.

While she's great in the Ozu and Naruse films, her very against-type work in Kurosawa's The Idiot is well worth a look. I think it's an inherently flawed film (the lead performance just doesn't work) and the legendary hours of missing footage likely couldn't save it, but she (and Mifune) is fantastic in it.

I think most classic musicals address sadness (a fleeting emotion) or melancholy (lasting but laced with joy) more than depression. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" in Meet Me in St. Louis is certainly sad, though not quite "depressed." If there are characters with recurring issues, they're often coded as…

The Dissolve did an article summarizing some challenges with digital archives years back: https://thedissolve.com/fea…

Xizor's got a weird Fu Manchu oriental threat thing going on. He's obsessed with avenging his family, leader of a yakuza/triad syndicate, insctuably pretends to "aid" the heroes but actually trap them, etc. The weird pheromone/sex appeal thing also plays into that, as if he isn't just a secret threat to all that…

The problem with Mara is that she has too much complicated backstory to introduce her in a film when you're trying to focus on a whole new set of characters. And even if one of the new kids is Luke's child, having Mara be the mother (even dead) would bring a lot of weird backstory complications ("Tell me about mother"…

And then doesn't he end up burning up in Endor's atmosphere and becoming a force ghost, forever with the lamprey that's also a force ghost (who died fighting at Hoth)? Forget the whole IG-88 becoming the Death Star II stuff, that story was by far the most "Wait, what? C'mon!" thing I encountered in the EU.

I just want to announce into the void (while intoxicated) that the clickbait ads currently include "Persona for $36.74" at barnesandnobles.com, even though Persona is actually only $19.99 there because of BN's Criterion sale.

But did you know she talked about that in her book?