Valley Girl is much better than Fast Times at Ridgemont High or (especially) 16 Candles. Ironically, given the subject matter, it feels way less dated. 

Blue Collar is pretty interesting, as most things Schrader tend to be. I was sold the second the Captain Beefheart song started up.

No “Helen Wheels?” For shame. 

He would have been a good Lester Diamond, but Woods is so great in that role.

“For as far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be an incarnation of Avalokiteśvara. To me, being the next Dali Lama was better than being the Premier of China. Even before I wandered into the temple for an after-school job, I knew I wanted to be part of them. It was there I knew I belonged.”

Which post-Goodfellas film of Scorsese would you insert Liotta in?

I’ll see your “The day my kid went punk”, and raise you a Quincy punk rock episode.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343579/

This fella looks more like Pete Shelley of The Buzzcocks.

funny story: my stepdad was never much of a tv viewer but there was a tv in his den & he would sometimes put it on when he was doing paperwork. one evening at dinner, he started telling us about a movie he had gotten drawn into that afternoon - it eventually became apparent it was “conan the barbarian.” i asked him…

Sooooo....in the summer of 2010 I was heading up the Digital Media Archives at NBC-Uni, with a 4-person office that doubled as an MPAA vault in the center of a floor of engineers who neither understood nor cared what we digital media guys were up to. And it was great! I had my own golf cart on the lot, and the drive…

Approaching it? He approached it a generation ago, bought it, remodeled it and is selling it for profit. He’s a blustering asshat who deep down knows that actors aren’t 1% as relevant as they pretend to be.

Denzel sounds like a putz. 

And like they were told to do their best Billy Idol.

Lydon is a contrarian. He’s gonna say whatever he think will put a bug up everyone’s nose. He might believe all that, but then again, he might not. 

I don’t think it holds up very well. There’s too much of the cartoonish punks of Repo Man. The actual group of kids that The Sex Pistols came out of were these young art school students (a lot of them LGBTQ) who were into like Glam and Kraut Rock, and idolized Andy Warhol and The Factory.

First off, Lydon can go screw himself. The songs were written by the entire band, not just him.

Having heard interviews in recent years, I doubt that he has much guilt about anything.

“Quirky for the sake of quirk” is a feeling I get a lot with Anderson, even though I like his work.

Ha! Bring on the dancing Bono!