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I...haven’t had time to watch it yet, so just imagine I wrote some clever, movie related quip here We watched: Next week: theworstbuddhist’s first pick.

I'm back from my trip! If anyone wants to see pix of my Norway trip, follow or check out my instagram here - i nightly posted a small set of shots from that day's travels/hikes in the Norwegian wilderness/etc. https://www.instagram.com/almostaghost/ Anyway, this movie looks like a good one to get back in on, I'm excited for this cast. I'll try to fit it in on my jetlag in the next couple of days!

I love that we are all united in our never ending judgment of Sea World! Also I'm still mad on behalf of the caller whose in laws are sending them baby clothes without a bsby. Donate them to a local shelter for domestic abuse they can always take things like that I think

Someone posted this piece to the Facebook group, by a black woman writer. I thought it was very perceptive about the film's virtues and faults. It speaks to a lot of what PureSly is getting at above. https://www.vulture.com/2017/09/gone-with-the-wind-and-cinematic-monuments-to-the-confederacy.html

Third time's the charm! Just admit it, Scotty! (also engineers don't be fooled, the last 10 seconds is just guitar sustain that you can fade out during)

I'm also a skilled trumpeter.

Well if last night was any indication, I'll be up really early tomorrow again with nothing to do but watch films in the dark. How quick I get to it though depends on how quick I get through Gone With The Wind. Yea, that Goofy made me smile... it was in this really great bookstore that my brother and I were poking around in. They had a ton of Disney items/comics/drawings for some reason.

Welcome back! I hope you had a great time and if you're too tired it's ok to skip. I'm delightfully confounded by the Goofy porter statue from your trip.

I started watching this morning. I’m 30 minutes in and the Overture just finished!

And I’d quickly like to add that WFRR would not have have worked if it hadn’t been for Bob Hoskins, who was a-fucking-mazing (in this role and many others)! RIP, Bob Hoskins.

I was about 13 when WFRR came out and that was the right age for it. I went with my younger brother and he just found the 1940s detective plot boring. I still enjoy the film today, but it relies on 1940s noir tropes and cartoon references that are over most kids heads and are difficult for kids to care about. I remember the film getting a very mixed reaction among my friends at the time. Shrek has humor for adults in it, but it’s underlying story is more universal and there aren’t any jokes where the main character is shoved down the hero’s pants and made to look like a boner. I work in the public school system and if kids were given a choice between WFRR and Shrek, it would be Shrek every time (but Toy Story is the champ). I also think WFRR was intended for kids in the 80s because we were raised on WB and Disney cartoons, but these days WB cartoons aren’t nearly as popular as they used to be. The movie has aged out. I’ve even tried to watch it with my nephew and he couldn’t get into it because he had no connection to the classic characters (and he thought the detective stuff was boring). As for myself, it will always have a nostalgic place in my heart.

This was a tough watch. I’ve been studying and teaching U.S. history for over 30 years. I love movies, but I’ve avoided GWTW because of its reputation for historical inaccuracy and its causal acceptance of the myths of white supremacy. It’s true GWTW doesn’t foreground white supremacy, but it’s at the very heart of the story. And the historical liberties made me cringe all the way through. I give the movie some credit for pursuing the idea that war brings horror and misery, especially to civilians caught up in the fighting. And I was pleasantly surprised by the characters of Scarlet and Rhett. Both are complicated and flawed, and have an edge to them that makes them fun to watch. But GWTW is an elegy for a way of life that was built on the backs of enslaved humans. Every time the theme of “The Lost Cause” came up, I thought of the untold and unquantifiable suffering the system of American slavery brought to millions of people. To romanticize the Southern way of life the way GWTW does is too much to bear.

I’m not saying it’s not dark. I’m just (partly) saying that we used to not worry as much about dark stories aimed at children.

Nawwwww... there's some DARK SHIT in WFRR. The Dip and the shoe? Holy Shit.

I’d say it’s an 80’s family movie. There’s a lot in it that wouldn’t get by today (e.g. smoking), but was common for the time. I don’t feel like it’s a movie made with an adults-only mindset. There’s sexuality, but no actual sex. But then you could say the same thing about Betty Boop. A lot of the things that we might consider problematic today were present in those old cartoons already. Cool World is WFRR for adults.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is no less a kid's movie than a lot of Dreamworks movies. I haven't seen Shrek but I've seen enough that there's a character functionally named "Lord Fuckwad" who built a huge castle because he's "overcompensating." I know it has a lot of jokes that are references only adults will get but aren't necessarily inappropriate for children. That doesn't exactly give Roger Rabbit a pass but I guess I don't think it's too bad. Maybe that's just because I watched it a lot as a kid though?

WFRR is really weird. I was shown it as a kid by a teacher because they thought it was a kids movie during day camp. That was an ....interesting... Day. Apparently a lot of people thought it was a kids movie which is CRAZY

I'm blown away that the Movie Bitches thought they'd go to Detective Pikachu and get Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, which is easily a top 5 all-time fav, but I'm also blown away that they think WFRR? is a kids' movie? Murder, alcoholism, a truly frightening main villain, tons of sexual innuendo and Jessica goddamn Rabbit? It seems more like a nostalgia movie for boomers who grew up with Looney Tunes and Disney and wanted to see them in a more mature setting. Who Framed Roger Rabbit -- a kid's movie: Yeah or nah? EDIT to add: Not that kids can't enjoy it, because I surely did, but I just don't think Zemeckis really had kids in mind when he made it.

I'm right there with you. We're gonna end up like Buster on Arrested Development it will be worth it though to Touch The Thing!

Hanging out at taco bell near King Soopa. Hoping to catch a whiff of that Fupa Chalupa.

Well... I don’t have much to say about this episode except: Klausner is one of my favs- she delivered as always

Finally the movie teased all the way back in episode 2, even more insane that Cage might not even be the craziest thing about this movie.

I'm SHOOK by how much praise Paul and Amy immediately heap on this movie! The spiritual life of Gone with the Wind is truly evil. It's a monster animated by racial hatred. It wants you to mourn the loss of this glamorous southern gentry, whose foundations are the totally unexplored - deliberately made invisible - crime of slavery. Without ever saying the "N" word, it is by leaps and bound the most racist and vociferous promoter of racism I have ever seen on film. To talk about this movie without front-loading a gigantic heaping portion of venomous SCORN for this truly awful, hate-filled, confederate propaganda is a huge disservice. I cannot believe Amy doesn't see this movie as promoting the confederacy. Mind blown. I'm 100% with Paul, Amy is off her rocker. She defends her position well, but I don't buy it. Yes, it's a beautiful epic - but no other film fits the description of lipstick on a pig so aptly. Gone with the Wind is a dressed up beautiful race crime of a movie. It does not deserve to be on the AFI 100 list any more than Birth of a Nation (shamefully still at 44 *Not true thanks for pointing this out!*).

I can guess how the idea got started: Hollywood was still in love with the idea of Tarantino knockoffs, and this one had a pretty great premise. Come on, how awesome would a movie that was actually about criminals trying to rob a casino disguised as Elvis impersonators be? (Too bad that's done in, what, the first thirty minutes? If that?) I can tell you a little bit about how it got to be such a disaster, though: Apparently, Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner had differing ideas on how the movie should play; Costner wanted an action-oriented movie, while Russell wanted a comedy-oriented romantic angle. Warner Bros. decided to let them both have the movie edited according to their wishes, and screened both for test audiences. They chose Russell's. To quote Ed Harris of the Agony Booth, "Think about that, folks. Somewhere in the vaults of Warner Brothers, there exists a cut of 3000 Miles to Graceland that they didn't use because it was worse than what was released."

Yes, dozens of people on Twitter have asked Paul and/or the @HDTGM account about it and the only time they addressed it* was to say "Don’t watch movies announced for live shows. Those are for the live shows and don’t always correlate to the podcast release dates." Evidence suggests they don't plan to release it. * Paul may have addressed it in the past but he uses a service to periodically delete all of his old tweets, so I can't be sure.