i’ve been (particularly and especially) depressed and pessimistic about the state of the world for the last few weeks. Or, more accurately - CHRONICALLY apathetic. Like, i really don’t think America’s gonna make it - no matter what i do - and i don’t see what the point of anything is.

But i really enjoyed this movie…

i was 13 in 1985, a HUGE stan for anything even adjacent-to Spielberg (me and my buddy were the only people in the theater for Explorers opening weekend, for godsakes) and even i knew Goonies was pretty racist and mean spirited. And SHRILL! (“The rich stuff”? Really?) And maudlin... (“It’s OUR TIME down here!”)

the sets and aesthetic and commitment to the world of Sweethaven and the physical comedy (Bill Irwin GOAT) and understated but still toe-tapping songs... I LOVE Popeye.

what? no, that movie is brilliant.

yeah, i’m here for expanding voting rights all day long, but let’s be clear that it’s not going to mean shit in a country where 60 percent of vagina-havers don’t give a fuck about their own bodily autonomy. 

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines > T2. Also: Johnny Mnemonic is better than any of the Matrix movies, including the one that hasn’t come out yet.

I didn’t hear much else, because it was the 90s, and we didn’t have the internet.

but are most of them also Republicans? Because those guys will always end up going for whoever loves fetuses and hates everything else.

yeah, Shapiro couldn’t even get through an entire tweet about MTG before getting the vapors about THE MEDIA and how THE SQUAD IS TOTALLY WEARING HAMAS 2024 SHIRTS RIGHT NOW!!!111...

you are a fucking titan.

the average Linklater audience member would’ve known immediately that Jones was a deep fried libertarian lunatic, and the average infowars fan wouldn’t be caught dead watching a Linklater movie.

my 21 y/o son has special needs; his best friend has down syndrome. My partner is a significant special needs educator - if you have a kid with an IEP, you could only hope to have an advocate who cares as much as she does. Everyone in my family cares deeply about people with special needs, and the issues that…

there’s absolutely a case to be made that the 80s Satanic Panic is right there in the Q-DNA.

nah - it was a remake of the original (without the surprises) -slash - effects reel with a kid-actor performance that would make Jake Lloyd blush.

I love this reply and it’s too bad it’s so far down it wont get much attention.

“the 90's pop culture idealization of apathy and detachment seems naïve, privileged, and complicit.”

i don’t doubt for a second that it is / was a power trip for some people. But if i’m being blush-faced honest about it, i found the commercials, at least, to be tantalizing back before i gave things much thought. That there was manipulation going on probably didn’t occur to many consumers 20 years ago, and the idea of…

yeah, i was going to remark on this, too, as it showed up under the headline on the homepage, but the operative phrase is “over professional, adequately paid performers”. I don’t think the author is questioning why someone would prefer amateur to professional porn.

legit. If you’re invited to be on a reality show, you really ought to stop and say, “oh shit, am i trash?”. If you accept, that basically seals the deal, and you better hope that “coke off of toilet seats” is the worst thing your kid is doing.