Pompeii with Kit Harington. I’d just come off of maternity leave with my first son and wanted two hours in the dark by myself - and looking at a pretty man. God, that movie’s awful.

I’m commenting from the future to say that Justice League is garbage, but Jason was worth the torture.

2006's Ultraviolet with Milla Jovovich. 9% Rotten Tomatoes, 4.4 IMDb.

I love the Feminine-Mystique-for-the-kitchen attitude, but (and I know I’ll get slammed for this) the food was highly processed and the recipes generally bland. I’m glad it was published. Not for the recipes but for the middle-finger-ness of it.

But do you want to be with it always?

Nah. Then you have to pretend to be dead to avoid your husband.

Ever wonder what Fallout: New Vegas would look like in in a newer engine?

If you consider a movie portraying young people with no future addicted to a soul destroying drug that has made them so irresponsible that a baby dies, then yes it totally glorifies heroin use! In fact, the first thing I said to my friends after watching it was “Wow, that looks fun guys! Let’s all go down to the alley…

and a fistful of acclaimed drug films helping secure its place among the major substances of the decade.

I think I remember a Law & Order episode that was probably inspired by that rebirthing death.

That’s cool, none of us want to be near judgmental jerks either. Win-win.

Coffee isn’t the issue here. There isn’t any in this stupid drink.

Sadly, that’s true. And I’ll admit my guilt in it as a cisgender white male (sorry to blow everyone’s perceptions from that Boone’s thread). But it’s still annoying.

One a side note as instead of enjoy a nice day wine, I am enjoying something a bit smaller and rounder due to back issues today BUT I had two fantasy…

Robot Carnival

I’ve no idea if anyone’s gonna read this, but I wanna recommend a few more, because while it’s true none of these movies are Ghibli movies, none are underrated and GitS and Akira are definitely overrated.

Two Satoshi Kon movies, which is awesome, but you skipped over his two best: Millennium Actress and Tokyo Godfathers! Perfect Blue is great, but has been mostly supplanted by Kon’s own TV series Paranoia Agent, which strives for similar goals but achieves them much more effectively. And Paprika is a bit of a flawed…

Even though they are technically OVAs, no love for Escaflowné or Endless Waltz? You are (Not) Alone?

This could’ve been a list of just Satoshi Kon’s movies, but he only directed four before he died....

Certainly strong suggestions, Cecilia, but I have to object to two Satoshi Kon films without the inclusion of Millennium Actress, the ultimate feel-good film and certainly a very strong addition to his library of work. Unlike Paprika (which is not without merits), it’s a film for everyone—or close to it—and that…

Although it’s not openly acknowledged, Aronofsky used the rights for Perfect Blue to completely adapt it as his own later film Black Swan. Although I liked that film, I was pretty bewildered to not see it noted as an adaptation of Kon’s film in the credits.