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Math with lipstick on its nipples.

I was curious if anyone had seen the miniseries. I felt like the movie could be expanded to explain a few things more, but not to seven hours unless they really go into some detail on the other characters.

I agree with Cam Bert but Steve Martin is also just as debased as the society he tries to escape from (or rise above or whatever) in his songs. I can't say lipstick on nipples is an especially debased fetish, but, considering the songs he wants to live in, it's pretty far out there. He also cheats on his wife with a woman he never met. He's as much escaping from himself as society. In case anyone was wondering, his $1000 loan is equivalent to $19000 in today's dollars. Given his "nearly 30% of every sheet sold," he would need to sell 33,333 pieces of sheet music at 10 cents a piece to recover that. These people can already order music from the wholesaler. That's already an uphill climb. Illinois' population was 7.72 million in 1934. Chicago was over 3 million and Steve Martin was only covering central Illinois. He'd have to sell sheet music to every 132 people in his area. Not likely.

Also, they confirmed Jessica St. Clair is part of the group playing Among Us. Seeing her try to figure out the game is going to be amazing.

Found it. Syncasey definitely had his read word for word by someone. https://forum.earwolf.com/topic/61005-episode-213-minisode-213/

The phone calls would have been welcome if they hadn't clearly stolen board comments. I don't know if the same person who pulls board comments pulls phone calls but some were very clearly verbatim. That isn't just parallel thinking. The only time I go to the front page of earwolf is to listen in browser if I have issues with Stitcher. It's something any business in 2020 needs to have but I'm not discovering new podcasts through it. Honestly, the ads in podcasts are about the only way I get new info on earwolf podcasts.

I'm going to try to watch tomorrow night but definitely don't wait on me. If other people are ready for it, start without me and I'll join if I can.

All this. More traffic would be nice but not a huge jump in traffic. I think message boards are largely just old fashioned or seen that way to a lot of people. My guess is hosting one is more expensive than a Discord server and I'm not sure how many other earwolf shows get any message board traffic. As soon as Paul started incorporating phone calls into the minis, I thought that was an indicator, intentional or not, that the days are numbered on some level.

I use Discord regularly but only one channel that is made up of people I've known for 10+ years. And they are all people I knew from a message board. The way we use it is functionally a group chat with different threads. It sits kind of between a message board and a group text. So, it's not what I assume Twitter is like. It is also good for streaming content because, I think, it was made as a platform to watch game streamers. So, you can use it for voice chat, video chat like Zoom, or text based. It could work for HDTGM Classics except I've only streamed stuff and used voice chat; I'm sure a text chat can be done if kast ever stops working. I'm not sure I'd join an HDTGM discord because it could be thousands of people and, at that point, it may as well just be Twitter without character limits (except the mods on Discord can just boot problem people I believe).

I will be.

They didn't cut it down successfully! I found the miniseries dragged but the movie was very rushed. Also RDJ did not come anywhere near Michael Gambon's performance.

I think lists serve a purpose. There is something valuable about a group of people reaching a vague consensus of a movie being good/important/whatever. If everyone is saying movie x is great, then maybe it's worth checking out (or avoid if everyone says it's terrible). If there weren't lists, then maybe you'd never hear of some great movie. I don't see them any different than recommendations from friends and if everyone I know is talking about it, I'm more likely to check it out. It's just that major directors' opinions have more weight on an international scale than my friends. But we don't need to be beholden to them either. If I see a great movie on the best X movies but I absolutely know it's not for me, I don't need to see it just to check a box.

I woke up one Thursday and realized I forgot to watch the movie for that week. I didn't want to listen without having seen the movie then I just never listened again unless they died a movie I was extremely interested in hearing their opinions on. I'm glad they are expanding the canon of movies but just a (very loosely themed) random collection of movies up for debate doesn't interest me.

Yeah, I think I was talking to Cinco about this once. I think seeing what people pick is interesting and I don't want people to feel limited in what they'll pick. I skip weeks sometimes and it's not necessarily a reflection on the choice. I just didn't get around to it for whatever reason.

I have seen most of mine before picking it but it's normally been many years. I don't necessarily mind picking a bad movie but I don't want to pick something that is a chore to sit through. There is one I happened to watch the day before my turn to pick and thought, "well, that's sorted." I definitely don't watch before the watch party. Some of those I happened to have seen before but not in preparation (unless we're counting testing our equipment when hosting. Then I'll watch a few minutes).

Does anyone happen to know when black soldiers are eligible for the GI bill? I know it was after WWII, but don't know if it was after the Korean War. I can't say what life was like for black Americans in 1950s Japan, but black soldiers certainly weren't given hero's welcome in the US. WWII soldiers were still forced into poor areas to live and denied college education they were promised. While I never thought Jackson had a hope the dance troupe would be welcomed as stars of they were great, I guess I have to imagine he had some idea this was a chance at a better life.

This isn't a criticism of the movie, but of Amazon. I put on subtitles for the movie and they didn't subtitle any of the English. I had real trouble understanding the Koreans when they spoke English. I could get the gist of it but couldn't get 100% of almost any sentence the entire movie. I don't see why they didn't have subs for the entire movie just the spoken Korean.

Boy, do I have some bad news for you about non-Americans in American movies!

I assumed it had to be fake. I figured any POWs dancing would have been soldiers forcing them to do it at gunpoint for cruel entertainment. Which, I guess the movie is doing in a roundabout way. Pretty much all of this. I really loved a lot of sequences in this. The Modern Love really stuck out but that might be my love of that song already.

I agreed with Cameron's review on Letterboxd. This felt like less than the sum of its parts. There is a lot of great stuff in here. I like hearing about the Korean War from a Korean perspective. I like the dancing. I like the performances. I like the cinematography. But this didn't totally work for me. Part of that is a general dislike for movies set in tragic circumstances that start as comedies or light comedy then suddenly turn melodramatic halfway through. It feels manipulative in the wrong way. Does anyone know if there are any stories remotely similar to the story of this movie? I'm certainly no expert on the Korean War but I've never heard about a dance crew in Korea POW camps.

I can't remember who picked this for Musical Mondays but I assumed it was you. It should have been Rockula.

I think the Amazon Watch Party might be limited to Prime users if that makes a difference.

Believe me. It brought me no pleasure to link this article or to already be aware of that study on Capuchin monkeys.

Prostitution is unknown in cats but not strictly limited to humans. But I think a lot of this is humans interpreting animal behavior in human terms and the study on Capuchin monkeys specifically involves human intervention. So, saying it's natural or how these animals behave isn't necessarily accurate in my mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_among_animals?wprov=sfla1 I never really thought of these as cats either. It's humans writing cats and humans putting personality into cats that aren't there (which is true of all pet owners but that's an entirely different discussion). The cats are wearing clothes, and singing and dancing and a leader cat sends them to heaven for reincarnation. These aren't cats or, at the very least, ascribing human behaviors to them is totally fine for this movie because the writers already did. Not to say I necessarily thought Macavity was her pimp (as I couldn't follow this at all) but I definitely thought it was more than she was just down and out

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