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I don't know if anyone listens to the Punch Up The Jam podcast but Elvis is featured pretty heavily in their song this week. This comes up in their discussion.

I guess when you see your best friend murdered in front of you, especially by someone who will get away with it based on precedent, you don't necessarily respond rationally. What was anyone to do? Murder the police officer in retaliation? Even attacking the officer is a pretty high possibility of getting himself killed. But the reality is, yes, the pizzeria didn't kill Radio. If you're Mookie at that point, you've seen your boss and his racist ass son, respond to your friend by destroying his radio which is the thing he treasures so much it's his literal name. You've seen him yell racist shit at your friends while he did this. Is Mookie going to have a job tomorrow? Can he show up there and work after this (either by his own choice or Sal's)? I can't say Mookie did the right thing by destroying a pizzeria in response to police violence against people of color but I also can't say he did the wrong thing. As Amy and Paul pointed out, destroying the pizzeria may have (inadvertently) redirected the violence against people. I get it his reaction even if, in retrospect, it seems like there were alternatives.

I have more to say but work is busy. Regardless, I'm surprised neither brought up that Radio's speech about his rings is heavily inspired by Night Of The Hunter whe Robert Mitchum has LOVE and HATE tattooed on his knuckles.

It's more crazy because of how it relates to another film. I'll save it for the relevant episode though.

I'm going to have a very unpopular opinion on Bringing Up Baby that I recognize is potentially crazy.

It's great and I know people are worried about this being some unnecessary cash grab when it was announced. It definitely isn't but explaining why is spoilers adjacent. I think Roger Rabbit is a damn fine movie and would easily include it in the top 100 American movies. Id certainly consider it over Toy Story and maybe all the Toy Story movies.

Weird request: is it possible to have a thread pinned at the top with the current rotation and chosen movies?

I've considered adding an avatar before but I made my choice.

But that's in the game. Maybe the kid coded this into the game to cover his tracks????? Or that's the reason and the anagram is just for us watching the movie. If that's the case, I'm really over people having anagram names in movies.

This is great but it makes me wonder about the nature of the game. Did the kid always mean for Matthew McConaughey to kill his step dad in the game? Because it seems like the game started as just hanging with his dad and fishing. If the rules changed to kill his step dad, having an anagram name for Bad Killer makes no sense. That would mean the anagram is just for the audience and it's a complete coincidence on the part of the kid.

When the son showed up in game, I assumed it was supposed to be a young version of Matthew McConaughey. But I found that I kept over complicating the plot. I thought being the video game was a mild twist (because it seemed kind of obvious and was revealed so early). So, I kept expecting the movie to get crazier. Then it kind of didn't and all my theorizing was for naught.

Team Blue Cheese is grooooossssssss

Honey Pie isn't even the best honey pie song on that album...the AFI should recognize Wild Honey Pie instead

I watched Ewok Adventure every day for a month because it's the only Star Wars movie we had on VHS.

I FINALLY FOUND SOMEONE ELSE!!!!!!! I prefer Star Wars to Empire. I like the world and world building more. Empire is better filmed and looks amazing. I love Yoda. But I also find the Millennium Falcon is a monster asteroid section kind of unnecessary.

"Leaves me cold" is harsh. I guess I just don't see anything in it that I actively enjoy? It's fine but meh. I've seen it twice and I can't imagine choosing to watch it again unless someone else really wanted to. I do agree with you on the being first. I do think the movie is good and it's obviously beloved. So, it might "deserve" to be on the list even though I think the latter two are much more enjoyable.

I'm going to make a controversial statement and say I don't really like Toy Story. I can see the quality of the movie and appreciate it as a technological step forward but I've seen it twice without any emotional attachment to anything. I like Toy Story 2. I love Toy Story 3 and very openly wept in the theater when I saw it. Toy Story 3 leaves me cold.

Honestly, what really threw me was Kris Kristofferson runs a dance studio. Him being the father to some Cuban guy didn't even trigger anything being off to me.

I think Tobe Hooper thinking Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a comedy has to be an anomaly of intent more than anything. I'd believe he thought that because I've read he thought he could get a PG rating for it which also seems insane to me. I'd be curious to hear of other filmmakers who completely missed the missed the genre they intended (outside of gross incompetence resulting in an unintentional comedy).

I'm getting conflicting information here. Can you two do a dance battle so I know whom to side with?

I have a question about dance contests because the world of dance seemed weird to me. Would dancers in this kind of contest all be dancing simultaneously? Since everything is choreographed, it seems like that dancers would either be altering their routine on the fly or just bumping into each other constantly.

Yeah. I think he literally asked what she was doing. How can you dance without music? It's like, dude are you for real? In his entire life, he'd never seen someone practice a dance routine?

Yeah. Most dance movies I've seen are feeling the music vs. strict technical dancing or street vs. ballet. So, that seemed like what this movie was going to do. But no. Also, Rafael seemed to not understand choreography was a thing?

If I hadn't paused it and Amazon told me Chayanne's character was named Rafael Infante, I might never have known.

Maybe it's because I only took a year of Spanish or being wiped out from allergies when I watched this, but the movie opened with the grave saying "Familia Infante". I thought it was a grave for babies and this was a dark opening for a dance movie.