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To my knowledge, every NWC cartridge owner was known and documented before 10 years ago in the NES collecting community. Maybe not quite every cartridge but damn near. I believe some are lost to time because the person sold/lost it before they got crazy valuable. I know that you could post a picture of one and people could identify its owner based purely on the condition of it. I came relatively close to buying one around 2004 when they were around $2000. It was on ebay and I even messaged the seller saying that I could give him $1500 immediately but it would take to my next paycheck for the rest. He wouldn't do it because he needed the cash. I wish I had asked some friends or parents for money because I'd definitely sell it for a massive profit. I'm currently 44 games away from a complete collection (including unlicensed games) but I've definitely given up on that. The most expensive games used to be a couple hundred dollars. Now a few of the noteworthy titles are a grand easy. I have a few but I was lucky enough to get them cheap back when they were just hard to find not stupidly expensive.

When Nintendo actually held the Nintendo World Championship in 1990, they did slightly modify the games slightly. Competitors played Tetris, Rad Racer and Super Mario Bros. The games themselves aren't modified but they switched once you finished your goal for that particular game. They used a special cartridge with those three games (incidentally, if you have one, please give it to me because they are worth tens of thousands of dollars).

I really loved Party Down when it was on. I rewatched it last year and, oof, there is a lot of homophobic language in it. I still liked it a lot but it was definitely a turn off.

Someone can correct me, but Return To Oz was kind of a mishmash of the second and third Oz books right? They just took characters from both and made up a movie around them if I remember correctly. I definitely don't remember the books being so horrifying as the movie either.

I liked the live version significantly more than this version. I can appreciate the movie to an extent. I like that it's kind of dirty looking in a way few movies are. The music is good. That's kind of it for me. The live version just pops in a way this doesn't.

Cambert, what do you have for us?

With the movie coming out and who knows if it will be safe to attend Broadway any time soon, I'd have to say #1.

A friend saw it knowing nothing about it except being a huge phenomenon and loved it. I'm glad I knew the album beforehand because I would not have understood all the lyrics in a live performance just from hearing issues. I don't know that hearing it dozens of times before was necessary but you couldn't have stopped 2016/2017 me from doing that.

It sounds like this worked though? That's good news. The only other way I think it might work would be a discord server but I think streams can only do voice chat?

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Phew. I was worried Richard Pryor did something horrible I hadn't heard about yet.

Is the controversial figure Michael Jackson? Or is there someone else I'm not aware of being awful?

How the fuck is Shelley Long's husband the inspiration for her novels and her build for an ideal man all women would immediately fall for its a New Zealand biker named Lobo? How are the guy we seen on screen and Lobo remotely similar?

Weird that you mention Jermaine Clement specifically. He was used in commercials for the "Australian" restaurant Outback before he got big. I don't think he did much to change his accent for the ads.

ROMAINE LETTUCE OR NOTHING!!!!! I agree that there's a lot missing. Since the author admitted to writing a weak script, I wonder if the book fills in a lot of motivation (I have to assume not enough to justify anyone's story here but maybe a little).

That bear isn't dead is it?

I was talking about this with a friend of mine yesterday. As a big fan of the NES, this movie is so unbelievably inaccurate. You'd think a movie that's a commercial for SMB3, they'd actually showcase it accurately.

Yeah. I haven't gotten really deep into it because I was working while I listened. My immediate reaction is that it's great.

During the robbery, I honestly thought it was staged to make Lobo seem heroic. I thought they were really getting into this ridiculous plan. It wasn't until he started talking to himself that I realized this was actually happening. So, I don't get what the plan was either. It seems like his heroics made the plan work. I don't blame Gertz for not being into Gus at the first dinner. It definitely wasn't just his appearance. He was also acting weird and nervous which made a bad first impression. And that meal was enough to ruin anyone in my mind. Plus you'd have this annoying woman as your sister in law. It was just a bad situation. Despite all that, looks are kind of important. Certainly not the most important aspect. I've certainly gotten more attracted to someone I wasn't initially into as I've gotten to know them. But, if the introduction was anything like that dinner (which wasn't Gus' fault), I'm not going back just in case they have a great personality.

Sure, villain is too strong but she's definitely doing a bad thing. I'd 100% cut that person out of my life if they did this to me. If you want to get them together, maybe have a party and invite them both. Seat them together at an event so they actually get to know each other instead of a six month minimum plan to get get brother married and justify her career as a romance writer.

Let's not discount Steve Guttenberg as also being a villain. How many stalkers and "nice guys" claim they fell in love at first sight and follow the person around? Steve seems genuinely charming in this movie once he gets healthy again but he still goes along with this plan. This isn't some spur of the moment choice. He puts on makeup and contacts and an accent. This is six months and exercise (which I guess he would have done anyway once he finished cancer treatment but still...). He isn't the mastermind, but he's still going along with the villainous plan.

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Even though the standard biopic formula can be awfully trite at this point, I would have probably preferred a standard biopic to this. Or maybe I should have read the wikipedia article before watching this (though I didn't know beforehand that this was based on a real person). For example, Fanny Brice died only a few years before the stage musical. I have to assume most people seeing this at least knew who she was. My Man was apparently her signature song and I assumed it was original to the musical. I don't blame the movie for my ignorance on the principal character but I think I would have appreciated this more with some kind of context. Imagine watching Judy and not knowing Over The Rainbow was her song.

I never saw Chaplin but I was thinking of this along the lines of Apatow's Funny People. I assume she was a big name at the time and very influential but kind of lost on the modern era. But I honestly don't know.

Also, it seems kind of weird to have Barbra Streisand keep talking about how unatttactive she is. She's not as hot as Omar Sharif in this movie but who is? I came away from this movie not actually knowing any more about Fanny Brice than I did going into it. That's about as bad a thing as one can say about a biographical film. I get the feeling it's not even particularly accurate to her personality (but that's pure speculation). Honestly, all that takes a break seat to this just not being my type of movie. I can appreciate this. There were some great little touches like the woman married to a dentist having braces, or Fanny saying "give me six reasons why..." I like hearing the origins of a bunch of songs I didn't know all came from the same musical. But this goes in the "glad I saw it" more than I actually enjoyed it.