“Couldn’t care less for any of the World series though. They’re just slogs.”

A Sound of Thunder, anyone?  

It’s Planet of the Apes, but somehow time passes in reverse.  And faster.

So you’re saying you were not.  Entertained.  Watching Gladiator.  Huh.

Are you fucking with me?

The Last Emperor is really good.  Moonstruck and Broadcast News are good too, but they’re kind of slight by comparison.

Dude, Academy voters were never touching Vertigo with a ten foot pole. That movie is fucked up by today’s standards. Brilliant, mesmerizing, but deeply, deeply fucked up. And not in a “nobody thought anything of it at the time” kind of way.

Agreed, but Titanic is such a perfect fucking best picture movie I can’t really get worked up about it. Of course it won best picture, I mean jesus, look at it: an epic tragedy brought to the screen, overcoming the troubled production and the doubters, huge movie star performances, grand melodrama, giant, innovative…

Yeah, at least they put it last on the list.

It’s got that pre-9/11 American middle class ennui thing happening. Here we are at the end of history and... is this all there is? There was a lot of that in the 90s. We had no idea how good we had it.

1939 rivals 1999 for all time movie years:

Pulp Fiction is the best of the three (and also the greatest work of one of the the greatest filmmakers of all time), but there was no way Academy voters were ever going to give that movie an Oscar. It was the opposite of Oscar bait in every way, and the movie wears that distinction like a badge of honor.

I hate people who think everything that happened before they were born is irrelevant.

You think Hurt Locker was a recruitment film?  

Everybody’s dad loved Green Book.

One man’s “greasy” is another man’s “juicy” I suppose.

“Have no fears, we’ve got stories for years”

Wait wait wait wait wait.  Wait.  If you’re willing to pay the “al a carte” prices, it’s been my experience that you can get any combination of any chicken pieces you want, right?  Are you saying I can no longer roll up to the drive through and ask for an 8 piece bucket of original recipe wings?

Oh I have no idea. I’m basing this entirely the Stan Lee character Jupin and Sadjak do on the WHM podcast

These promotions are definitely not for me. And that’s OK. But I do have to wonder at the notion of having somebody else pick your menu items for you. Is the McDonalds menu so vast and diverse it’s leaving you in decision paralysis?