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  1. Paul Thomas Anderson is that way for me. All of his movies get a look because of boogie nights. But I didn’t really love any of the other ones, including super successful and praised ones like there will be blood, and I straight up walked out of inherent vice. But still, if a PTA movie was released tomorrow it would be must see no questions asked.
  2. Cam Barker strikes down eviction moratorium. says that it isn't interstate commerce but general police power of the state. https://www.dropbox.com/s/qt71rci75p5znj4/Texas ruling.pdf?dl=0
  3. Ah. Perp was also killed. Never mind.
  4. You know what it smells like? Pine oil. That is where you are heading, pine oil heaven.
  5. literally the first sentence of the article
  6. i think the point is a little different. i'm suggesting it is possible to dress like 1979 and 1984. you can't really dress like 2015 or 2010 or 2005 in any way that is different from 2020. and not just dress, but everything else that is indicative of moments in time of a culture. if i was to make a movie about 2005, what visuals would i put in it to show the viewer it was 16 years ago?
  7. Feel like I remember that too.
  8. young actors that are cast in mockable roles end up weird. another example is dj qualls, the skinny kid from road trip. the need to overcompensate for their casting seems to be real and comes out in weird ways.
  9. enjoyed Deshields the first time around. the rare rule 5 pickup that wasn't an immediate sayonara.
  10. looks like something wile e coyote would design
  11. Doc: I've got some bad news. It looks like you'll probably not live more than 10 Patient: 10 what? Doc: 9
  12. That's pretty interesting. I think the pace of change of the entire culture has slowed, I guess. We have more and more technological advances, so a movie like The Departed like entire plot devices revolving around crazy things called "text messages" feels laughable now. But everything else about that era still seems relevant. I'd say every single article of clothing, every saying, every haircut, every environment in there would work in a movie about today. But that was 15 years ago already. Think about the differences between 1975 and 1990. Or any other 15 year period in there. Hell, in Boogie Nights you have the same characters looking like and this in the same movie, representing like a 5 year change. Pretty weird.
  13. Political parties are nimble enough to recognize a losing hand and adjust over time. For the Republican party in particular this is true -- we say all the time on here that they only care about the acquisition and use of power, not enacting some underlying philosophy with that power. They just tried to gain power to undemocratic way and ended up losing the House, Senate, and Presidency. I think they'll start realizing they currently have a losing hand in pretty short order, have to deal with the realities of needing actual votes, and somehow adjust to grab additional voters. My guess is that will mean putting a veneer of respectability back on the party so that young votes and non-racist votes are easier to get. I don't think they can adjust soon enough that they will avoid paying for it for at least one more election cycle though. I think we are in for crazy town Trump idolatry for at least until 2022 because Trump, Gaetz, Cruz, et al have the biggest microphones and will fight to keep it that way as long as they can. The consequences of this path won't be fully accepted until another series of losses. Then they will lose their influence.
  14. they are peak milli vanilli, hypercolor pre-grunge era 90s.
  15. It's Saint Fuck the Chinese.
  16. So honoring greatness inspires others to greatness. So naming things after people reminds later generations of their history. So our world is more colorful than just a bunch of places names "Aspen Tree School" and "University of That Hill By the Highway"
  17. Seems like a weird purity test. Particularly weird in the case of Presidents, imo, where there are tens of thousands of issues that their decisions will have a direct impact on. Of course negatives will be found. Was Lincoln a net benefit to the world? Obviously. Does it hurt my feelings that this school chooses not to honor him? It makes me wonder if Lincoln doesn't meet their standard, who does?
  18. I was a little down on it. It only hit on the highest of high points that it left so many gaps. It was like 5 scenes from Europe, 5 from the Pacific. All presented very grand way so you can really enjoy those scenes, but it was only those few. That was my takeaway. Nothing even moderately obscure discussed. Hard to say negative stuff about it. I want to say what they did have was exceptional, just limited.
  19. I think you are getting bummed at the exact wrong time. The wave just crested, imo. We are on the backside of this. Think of the demographics that are driving this moronic behavior, and think of trendlines of those demographics.
  20. I do love that the AMC/BB/GME fun distracts me from the fact that the rest of the market is a collapsing neutron star right now.
  21. that's interesting. so it could be a cause of the murder in a very literal sense.
  22. wow. I would have guessed that part of the early reporting was wrong. sounded to internet-y to me.
  23. Yeah. I love that answer. "Wait. Are you an informant for the FBI?" "Uh, I don't remember being an informant for the FBI." Very credible.
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