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Pretty obvious that this was the inspiration for THE HIGHLANDER.

Might post more about this later, but I think MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED might be the most interesting show out there right now. If I’m right about what the show is doing/where it’s going it’s different from anything else out there.

Jordan Harper’s A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE sure was a hell of a novel to be reading when Arnie Hammer’s white-vigilante-protects-society movie dropped. Great book overall, but that timing was something else.

How is this movie not called “Horny Jail”?

Not 100% certain what I think about Disclosure Day overall, but it’s kind of amazing that we spend over two hours with a handful of people, and then the climax basically gets handed over to people we’ve never seen before in the movie and it’s absolutely the right choice.

I think this is partially correct. Bear is not an incel, he’s more pre-incel, but I think the movie is structured around incels and incel logic, which is slightly different.

Tonight’s dinner.

Props to the woman checking ticket at the theater for The Drama who said, “The acting is phenomenal”… and nothing else. About to find out how that review holds up.

Ok, but Warren going off on how Ballers season 2 demonstrates why a wealth tax is necessary, is far more likely.

If SNL hasn’t done a sketch of the deleted scenes from HAMNET showing all the times when Hamlet calls his mom a feckless whore in the play, they’ve dropped the ball on that one.

So GOOD BOY is a great movie. It took me a bit to click with what the movie was doing, but as soon as I did, it was great.

Finally got around to watching TMNT: Mutant Mayhem… and I did not expect that this movie would make me cry.

I’m the Bedroom 4/Full Bath combo. That is the smallest of either option and apparently only has one sink.

Just watched Ghosts of Mars for the first time, and this movie rules. It largely aims for pulp nonsense, and succeeds at being that. There are a few things that could have been a little better, but for the most part, it works for what it’s aiming for.

You ever notice how goofy the instrumental melody line* is in the original version of Sweet Dreams. It’s like someone went “hey, check out this goofy sound”, and someone else went “cool beat, bro. Let’s fuck ‘em up with it”. *May not be the correct technical term; don’t care, fuck off.

Looking forward to Trump announcing that people with autistic genes have a special interest in fucking, which is why the number of autistic people keeps growing.

Sourdough is a bread entirely beholden to its past. A small piece of ancestral knowledge is passed down in each batch to pay honor to loaves that came before, on and on and on throughout each generation, the past is brought forth anew. It isn’t woke, it’s anti-woke, and that’s why it sucks.

Holy shit. The Monkey might be the most “me” type movie that will be released this year.

My parents learned an important lesson this weekend: Never let my niece and nephews know that they refer to their neighbor as “Mr. Asshole”.

Just watched 28 Years Later, and there are shots from the trailer that look super fucked up out of context, but in context are some of the most moving things I’ve seen in a movie recently. Genuinely cried in the theater.

Saying why FRIENDSHIP is a great movie would probably be a spoiler, but there’s a line that Kate Mara has towards the end that is the perfect one sentence deconstruction of movies like this that the entire rest of the movie supports. Also it’s funny. “Thank you for the baked potato.“

Not really related to the post itself, but I love that the glare on the TV makes it look like the person in the background has a straw up her nose.

So SINNERS absolutely kicked ass.

Just saying that if anyone wants to add me to a classified group chat, no one would find out because I’m terrible at checking and responding to text messages.

So MICKEY 17 rules. It feels like the bozo version of a serious sci-fi movie, but it still hits moments of genuine emotion and melancholy. Like it’s goofy, but without treating it like a joke.

Good God. I just watched The Umbrellas of Cherbourg for the first time, and that movie ruled.

Watched Inland Empire for the first time tonight, and two hours after it’s over…I think I get what it’s about?

Sad to hear about David Lynch passing.

Kind of shocked by how much I liked Joker 2. Probably because it leaned into one of my biggest criticisms of the first one and made it the whole point.

Everyone’s remembering how Y2K was successfully averted, and it was a big relief when nothing happened. But a few days after New Years, I went to balance my checkbook in Quicken, and it said every entry was for 1900 and I screamed in exaggerated agony in my college apartment.

Full moon tonight. Off to the aquarium so I don’t suffocate on the couch.