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This movie felt like a first draft. They had all the right ideas for a generic saved by the church movie but they just ran with their placeholder ideas. His big idea was try to market malt liquor to a new clientele? Wow. What a novel idea. I get that creating a fictional business plan is difficult to sound feasible in a movie but jeez this is low level.

Also, happy birthday, Cameron H.

That makes more sense. I watched this over two days and couldn't remember how young they were supposed to be. Cuba is still at least a decade older than Beyonce but it's better than I thought.

Yeah. Were we supposed to find Cuba likeable? At first, I thought he was supposed to be a savvy businessman who just needed the right opportunity but he is kind of dumb and a jerk. Also, are Beyonce and Cuba supposed to be the same age? Because lol definitely not.

If you feel this place is unwelcoming or if dipshits from reddit are talking shit, I understand why you want to leave. But, as Cameron said, please stay.

I think Paul was just making a joke. Since he was recording this early and doing canned responses, he was making a funny excuse to not have forum answers.

I think the argument of "how dare you support ____________!" kind of went out the window a few years ago. When people naively thought it was just Roman Polanski and Woody Allen, it was a lot easier to feign moral superiority for abstaining from a movie. Now that we're aware that abuse and molestation are rampant, you'd need to skip virtually every movie. Anyone who tries to guilt me over a movie needs to provide me with a list of their last 10 watches because I'll find someone guilty of something awful. We all have different lines of acceptability. I have the celebrities I won't support anymore. You have the celebrities you won't support. I won't shame you for watching a celebrity I don't support if you won't shame me.

Syncasey, did you call in on the minisode about neon clothing? Because the call was your post verbatim. If not, then we can now confirm people are stealing our posts for calls. EDIT: It just occurred to me that it could be an earwolf employee reading the post. So, idk.

I'm still down for it. Plus I'm pretty sure my week is coming up soon. One thing that might help is, if you're making the between week thread, have a list of who the next couple people are to pick. That way it's not sprung on someone who isn't ready or they can bow out if they are busy that week.

I listened to the episode for Cool As Ice. He says he was 16 when Ice Ice Baby came out. I don't know if that was just poor memory or lying, but he was 21 when it came out and 22 when it blew up.

During the minisode, Paul said the was a Shanghai Surprise in the movie but not to look it up if you didn't know what that means. I did anyway and apparently it currently means when a man pretends to be a woman during sex. So, I spent the whole movie wondering if China Doll was going to reveal herself to be a man because I assumed Madonna wasn't going to play a trans character.

Definitely knuckleballs existed. At the time this movie was set, spitballs I think just barely went away. The last legal spitballers retired in the 1930s.

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I don't necessarily think of Buffalo Bill as being trans anymore than I think of Francis Dolarhyde in Red Dragon as a (dragon) furry. On the surface, yes, their mental illness looks like a trans person or a furry but I don't think that's what they are. I get why a trans person or even a trans ally would have a problem with Buffalo Bill. The complaints are absolutely fair and valid. I'm not a psychologist and not even an armchair expert on any of this stuff. So, I can't make any kind of diagnosis or explain the difference on a psychiatric level. But I guess I'd say it's similar to saying Ocean's 11 is about a kleptomaniac or Norman Bates has an Oedipus complex.

The Back To The Future stuff felt really weird to me because it felt like it would make more sense to just have Bruce say "We don't know how it works or what the effects would be". It seems a lot easier than actively having a guy tell you it's bullshit after he says it's not his expertise then violating what he says anyway. It's funnier to have the BTTF scenes but it didn't make much sense (which is a common complaint I have with the MCU). Tony getting the stones really annoyed me. I excuse most the other illogical scenes for emotional weight or their comedy offsetting it but this felt like lazy writing or just lying to the audience. I can come up with a theory on Tony Stark made the new gauntlet but he developed a back door on the gauntlet that would allow him to... it just feels like after 11 years, I want more than "Tony's a genius so he definitely invented some deus ex machina" But other than that, I don't have major beef with the movie. It was emotional. It was funny. It was way better than I expected it to be.

I want to defend Scott Glenn not wanting to return. 1. Hannibal is a terrible sequel 2. He also listened to audio tapes from the Toolbox Killers to get into the mind of an FBI agent. If you've heard anything about them, got to be awful to have heard that and get into that again.

I liked it quite a bit at the time but it also didn't leave much of an impression on me. I liked each scene as it was happening but I don't know that it added up to anything.

I had a similar feeling. I didn't particularly care if they got together. I liked the female character but remember not caring much for the guy (I haven't seen this since theatres so my thoughts are pretty weak).

I just tested it. Yes, it works.

Unless someone already owns this, I can probably host this on Friday since it's free to stream through my library.

They are apparently completely redesigning Sonic between now and release in 6 months due to internet reaction. So, that will probably look both better and worse at the same time.

I'm pretty psyched for this movie because it's one of the George Harrison produced movies I haven't seen.

I saw this movie once and I was really surprised at its reputation. Maybe it was from having seen too many notable clips before saying it proper but I'm pretty sure I didn't laugh once when I saw it. It's kind of technically fine with good performances and maybe it felt really fresh in 1982. I can maybe appreciate it on that level but, as everyone here has said, there are a bunch of better movies that are similar to this. So, even if you need an 80s comedy, or a Bill Murray movie, or a Geena Davis movie, or a Dustin Hoffman movie, or a Sydney Pollack movie, or kind of any movie with any ties to Tootsie, there is a better example somewhere. I wouldn't say I hated this but I definitely don't need/want it on the list.

I feel like Charlize Theron wanting to give her Oscar to the star of Hello Mary Lou counts.

Yeah, it's one line from another song but Lennon expanded on it to make an entire song about abuse. Artists can absolutely create characters. I would never argue otherwise. Lennon, in this instance, wasn't creating a character. He was abusive. He has admitted it and I believe later said the song was about his wife. There's a reason I didn't reference Getting Better as a song about abuse. That always felt like Lennon recognizing his violent past.