I really gotta rewatch it. I haven't seen it since I was a kid, and since then I've both developed actual taste in movies and discovered Beowulf, which is now one of my favorite books. It'll be interesting to see what it looks like now.

I recently rewatched it and, while watching every comedy scene in the movie flop and die painfully was pretty rough, I was impressed by that beautiful Rick Baker production design and Branagh's beautifully hammy villain. I wouldn't call it good, but it was better than I remembered from my childhood.

Yeah— the Matrix isn't interested in actually exploring a concrete philosophical framework that provides a new and coherent worldview, and it's bullshit that people judge it for failing to do that. It's using some basic Dick-ian ideas about uncertainly and subjectivity to create a metaphor for existing power…

Great production design, an amazingly cheesy villain performance that is the high point of Redmayne's career, and two grown-ass women conning Hollywood into funding their whackadoo Sailor Moon tribute? I'm not sure it's good, but I definitely admire it.

Now? It's been a thing for 700 years. It predates modern English.

That's my favorite thing about them. They're so sincere and they love their work so much. Even when that work misfires, I appreciate what they're attempting and the fact that they're making it fully for themselves and the joy of the art.

There's a cut scene— I'm not sure if it was ever filmed or if it's just in the script— where he mentions that he's working on a device that can let someone go in without an operator, and it's implied that he's using it for that meeting.

"I know kung fu" is fucking classic because it's not a badass boast, it's a burnt-out office drone and computer nerd being excited that he gets to kick ass. Even by the end, Neo's still an upstart punk making a crank phone call— there's a real sense of scrappy rebellion. As cool as the heroes of the Matrix are,…

It's like somebody put flame decals and a spoiler on a horse.

Same here. I still dig a lot of the same music I did when I was 19, but I'm way more tolerable about it now.

Seeing the 9-panel Watchmen grid, which was designed to create a sense of realism and steady, relentless pacing, paired with Miller-style duochrome and goddamn KPOW sound effects gives me a buzzing wrong feeling in the back of my head.

I'm a cis man and one of the most disappointing days of my life was learning that Lord of Misrule was a seasonal product.

Nah, 808s and Heartbreak justifies it.

There were concerns that the company could save all the UPCs you scanned to build a profile, and when people tried to deprogram them, the company claimed that users didn't actually own the product they paid for. Then 14,000 people got their user information stolen and the company gave each of them a $10 gift card for…

In the current state of things, there's the threat of military force preventing NK from taking military action. He has nothing to gain from taking actual military action against the US or SK, and everything to lose, and while the NK government may be unpredictable and aggressive, the country's government is a rational…

Very good points!

I would also like to cut Donald's part.

It's a solid, solid argument, but for me, the thing was that I could never quite root for Stringer the way a lot of other people did. Not a fault of the show at all— I just really loved D as a character and found him really sympathetic, and throughout Stringer's whole arc I couldn't forget what he'd done to D. It made…

Actors in character, discussing the keyboardist in the scene when he's playing video games in the bus.

4>3>1>2>5, personally.