When did you watch that and think that was anything other than brutal? "There's butter in the fridge" is a line I use to remind myself that I might be being cruel and selfish with what I'm asking of others.
This is like Toy Story, where now it is clear that Woody is the bad guy in the first movie.
I know, right? "Everything is available!" Bullshit it is. Most Canadian made tv shows are not available anywhere.
The montage at the beginning of Up might be the purest distillation of (I hate this phrase but I don't know how else to say it) the human condition I've ever seen. And is devastating every time I see it.
So what I'm saying is is that Up is up there.
Bullitt is next, my friend. Watch it and revel in the ultra cool that is Steve McQueen.
Oh yah, now I remember. The wife stuff, yah. Absolutely almost despicable. Like, he fucked around and she found out, ya know?
This happens a lot with movies, too. Whenever I tell people they need to see Bullitt and the French Connection so they can understand every cop movie that comes after, they often come back and tell me how unimpressed they were. Amd I'm just like "but the context!" Same for Citizen Kane.
I'm gonna need a refresher here? My biggest impression from Inception was the realization halfway through that it was just a fancy heist film. Which, come to think of it, applies to most of his movies tbh.
I don't remember seeing it when it first came out, but I remember seeing the first one when I was about 32 amd was surprised at how grounded it was.
I thought it was always pretty clear in the movie that he was kind of a nozzle. Self-centered and insecure to an astonishing degree.
The ribald nature of some of the lines made more sense with the characters aged up. They were more knowing.
I agree at the ambition. Still think it's pretentious and boring, especially the ending. Gorgeous to look at, though.
one is "starship troopers" (the movie).
me at 12, when it came out: fuck yeah! save the day! get your girl back! the brain bug is scared!
me at 15: that movie is actually really campy and terrible.
me as an adult: paul verhoeven deserves a retroactive oscar for this.
I saw a version at Stratford, Ontario, where they aged R&J up considerably, and it changed how it came off. More like grownups who thought this might be their last real chance at love. It was interesting.
Very much concerned after this murder.
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This the country you're leading, sir? Where nazis roam free, intimidating journalists? You want this to be your
@mark-carney.bsky.social legacy?
The Myanmar folks are doing God's work and for a while there was a random German girl in her 20s who was probably the only human being on Earth with a decent concept of what the general state of the Sudanese Civil War was.
The Blues Explosion guy? Man, I am losing so many musicians to cancel culture /s/
Yes.
When we are not at home or work, we are at the physical therapy office.
Rick Steves - Years ago you served my father during the Clone Wars...
There’s still Rick Steves but he isn’t brutal like Bourdain. BTW, Steves recorded an episode in Iran that is wonderful, talking with students and families.
Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.
Because the point of going to school is to learn things, not to use a dictation machine with the mental capacity of Jenny McCarthy.
Why is NPR platforming some lazy 18 year old, anyway
That's better! But unfortunately, seems we have to offer a thousand different arguments. Humanitarian, environmental, economic hasn't been enough.
We need farm diversification.
What've I got to do to make them taste sweet like pineapple?
The lesson is not that politicians should waste-basket good ideas that poll poorly, but put in the rhetorical effort to bring people around.
