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The only sections I didn't really care much for was the parts with Nina Paley. I can see why she sees connections between her and Sita but everything else was much more interesting.

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Yea, I said something similar on Letterboxd. Putting herself into it felt really weird to me, and the way she told that part was really basic with no insight or anything. If you were to just tell the Ramayana story with old jazz blues, that would have been just fine, just as creative and original, and probably even more effective of a tale of break-up and timeless emotions.

I just want to confirm that a family vacation is more important to you than Musical Mondays?!?!?!?!?! I thought I knew you but I guess not.....

I want to thank everyone for your support. I'm amazed by you all. I just wanted to let you all know that it is now up on iTunes. If you could take the time to rate/review that would mean the absolute world to us. Thank you all so, so much A new episode - the first Magnum ep - should be out tomorrow.

I'm back from vacation now I haven't had a chance to watch yet, but hope to tonight. It looks really interesting.

My favorite part was the music, which even being from such a different time/culture as the Ramayana, matched up so perfectly.

That's how I felt. I strongly considered buying the Ramayana because of this. Those were by far my favorite parts of the movie.

The three narrators for me were the highlight of the movie. I could listen to them just tell me India folklore and myths forever.

The tale of a kid and his sentient dirt bike. It contains ridiculous plot points and dialog throughout making this film a great fit for the podcast. Wikipedia IMDB

Actor/director Seth Green joins Scott to talk about his directorial debut “Changeland,” the trip to Thailand that inspired him to write the movie, and his old “Cha-ching” commercials. Then, entrepreneur Trombone Shitty stops by to workshop commercials for his car dealership. Plus, musicians Stephen and Jonathan of the band Hashtag.Song_Goals stop by to share some examples of songs they have updated by changing the lyrics.

Breakups are hard that's why we have sad songs We watched

I agree with this 100%.

The funniest thing about Hashtag Song Goals is that there was absolutely no reason it needed to be two people, and their awkward attempts at singing in unison might have been even better than the actual lyrics.

What annoyed me most about Nina's breakup story is it seems to be putting her own breakup on a huge pedestal. She's equating her breakup, which is a pretty big breakup all things considered, to this epic story that takes place over years. It's like comparing one time you went hunting to Beowulf fighting Grendel. You're a bit out of your league.

Oh, they’re coming to Richmond? Are they finally doing something here in the South? *Clicks link* HOLY SHITTAKE MUSHROOMS, THEY’RE COMING 90 MINUTES AWAY FROM ME IN DURHAM! *Sets an alert to buy tickets as soon as they are available*

I really hated the Nina Paley parts. Like I was almost ready to give this movie one star as a result. I get that she wrote it (though I’m pretty sure she just interviewed the narrators) and animated it all which is impressive but her story has no real connection to the Ramayana other than breaking up but still loving the guy. Other than that the links are tenuous at best. The voice acting for her ex-boyfriend was awful. The animation style was very 10oz Mouse. The whole thing just seemed like “this event lead me to the Ramayana” but I just wanted to hear the story of the Ramayana. If there was more information in her story to link to the connections it might have been interesting. The fact the songs line up with the story is much more interesting.

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roger stone and memes is a genuine masterpiece

We saw this yesterday, and it was fun, especially to see Jason. I gotta say as a moviegoer, I couldn't care less about the mythology of John Wick, its weird currency system and honor code. I feel like at this point that stuff is getting in the way of the only good thing about these movies, which is seeing Keanu kill everyone on screen with a bullet to the chest and one to the head. I did appreciate that unlike Skyscraper, JW3's version of the Enter The Dragon mirror room added some new (and cool) elements to that much-imitated scene.

One of my favorite movies of all time. It's not just a fun good "not-really-bad" film, like some of the F&F franchise. RepoMan is a wonderfully fantastic cult/midnight movie. That said, they could cover a lot of Criterion movies. Especially "The Lure", just so we could hear their minds explode at how nuts that movie is.

It's too good to be lumped in with the HDTGM movies, but I also would still love it if they did it

Except this movie is intentional in its weirdness and is one of the best films of the 80's. HDTGM has covered actually good movies, though. Oh and it's on the Criterion Collection.