Mike D’Angelo

I would like to formally request that AFI Fest not show movies running longer than two hours in Chinese 2, which has these fucking seats.

Stephen Chow TED LASSOed SHAOLIN SOCCER.

Seen comments to this effect several times now and find them truly bizarre. “Who’s on First?” was already roughly half a century old when I first encountered it in the mid-’80s, was recognizably “old-timey,” and I had zero difficulty understanding or appreciating it. It’s a simple joke!

Did not expect a NORTHERN EXPOSURE episode in which Maggie, a 31-year-old woman, goes to the prom with Jack Black.

Fuck, I found an AI-generated song/video that I genuinely like. Although (a) it’s French and (b) its lyrics consist entirely of the inhumanly cute singer protesting that’s she not AI-generated, which was a funny prompt. https://youtu.be/D-VaEIHanQA?is=q5yubYsxbdqbBFyw

Most devastating October surprise in history. So much for any blue wave. This will energize Republican voters like nothing else. DAMN IT ALL WHY MUST HE BE SO CRAFTY.

It’s very much like the moment in the end credits of [30-YEAR-OLD FAKE DOCUMENTARY, TITLE REDACTED] that reveals it’s fictional and is followed by an unexpected cast list. Except this one isn’t and isn’t.

I have never not laughed aloud at the part of “Desiderata” (the ’70s song version) that advises “And listen to others. Even the dull and ignorant. They, too, have their story.”

Grateful not to have (so far) seen any Eva Marie Saint obits with SUPERMAN RETURNS in the headline.

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Only the second time I’ve been to this screening room (last time was PICTURES OF GHOSTS) and I’d really like to see things here more often.

“My daughter hasn’t grown out of being trans.” Our advice columnist [author of IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE: THE TRANSGENDER CRAZE SEDUCING OUR DAUGHTERS] weighs in. I’m on tenterhooks. What will she advise? Next: advice columnist Stephen Miller weighs in on “My best friend overstayed his visa in 1961.”

I’m informed that it is in fact the product of some “race science” dipshit. Will leave the link up because the test itself is actually quite good and you’re not giving them any personal info or even bullshit fuel by taking it, as far as I can tell.

I mean I don’t know [looks up chart-toppers from oh let’s say 1993, when I was 25 years old and radio was still a thing] “Informer” by Snow (7 weeks at #1), and in fact could not even have told you there was ever a band or mononymed artist (looks like it’s the latter) called Snow.

Oh great they’ve made the Criterion Channel look as generically shitty as every other streaming service.

And I would watch 500 MILES And I’d *re*watch LIFE AND NOTHING MORE Just to be the man who made a lame-ass joke All Bluesky will abhor Da da dun da! (Da da dun da!)

What's wrong with you people? Why would you do that? WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!? ("It looks better at thumbnail size" fuck the fuck off Phil Istine)

I’ve seen 75 of the NYT’s top 100 21st-century shows (though bailed on a few). Not bad given that movies are my focus. Highest-ranked shows I haven’t seen at all (they’re on my list): The Crown, The Comeback, Band of Brothers.

My dad has an annoying tendency (watching movies at home—not in a theater, thankfully) to ask questions about things that are meant to be temporarily mysterious. DAD: Why did she do that? ME: Wait a bit and we’ll find out! But at least he hasn’t convinced himself that it’s a fuckin’ disability.

Apparently we’ve progressed from not knowing what “wherefore” meant to just pretending the line was actually “Where the fuck art thou, Romeo? I don’t see you.” (Also is this really the best use of his time that Eggers can think of?)

You can tell a lot about someone by which connection immediately leaps out at them. (I got both of these in seconds.)