“Smithers, I’m starting to think that the Wachowskis aren’t the radically genius filmmakers I’d thought they were.”

I was wondering how I got here.

“Cause we’ve got, hiiiiiiiiigh hopes!!!”

Every five or six years I’ll revisit Reloaded for the highway chase scene and when Neo fights an army of Smiths in the park but that’s about it. Everything else from Reloaded to Revolutions is pure, self-indulgence that thinks it’s edgy and smart.

My first North America-centric reaction was that “Southern Ocean” does not sound cold. 

I suppose that Eastwood could have paused to get a baby blanket to cover the doll up.

Yes, it’s embarrassingly bad. Even beyond the scripting, for spending $220 million inflation-adjusted dollars on that movie, the CGI sure didn’t age well. Heck, it was cheezy looking back when it was new.

I think we’re just going with inscrutable whims from here out.  It’s like they presume “my year of flops” gave “secret success” to every entry.

I sort of understand if it’s an outside studio sending Netflix a 5.1 theater mix, but even their original programming suffers from this issue. You’d think a streaming service would consider that a good chunk of the devices running it are going to be laptops and phones or tablets with shitty speakers and two-channel ste…

I like the discliamer that “not all Southerners are like this” as a nice antithisis to the headline. Y’all mother fuckers with the Pickachu face when Southeners hate and/or are leery of people with that ugly-ass coastal elite attitude are so funny.

that’s more the algo-rhythm

I’ll settle for proper audio mixing. Maybe my speakers just suck, but it’s as if Netflix wants to condition their viewers to require subtitles being always on.

Netflix has accepted your challenge

Oh yeah, like Screeching Weasel is the apex of quality and originality.

So, you gather above average looking people who have near-model or straight up model good looks, put them in pretty high-grade fursuit masks and then have them go on blind dates?  This is just a furry’s jerk off material.  I really am not against it on spectacle but it isn’t much more than some executive who gets…

No there’s a man who knows when he’s got somethin’ good in his mouth. 

Yup, I’ve had that. One of those Southern Illinois areas where even Google Maps says “Dude, you’re on your own.”
And yes, when i asked someone the directions included, “You go past Flakey Johnson’s field and take a left where the grain silo burned down.”

I used to work for a company that sold satellite systems. This was a loooong time ago when only people in rural areas used them. We had to get directions and people would literally say stuff like that. “Turn left where old John’s house used to be.” Our salesmen were not from the areas they sold in, so that was fun.

“We won’t get into the predatory nature of the American rental market here, nor eviction policies during a deadly pandemic...”