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If I had my Podcast Druthers, they would have done this movie a year or so ago when Len Wein was still alive and relatively healthy. When he was a frequent guest/guest host on the Nerdist Comics Panel, he was so honest, forthright, funny, and still totally in love with comics even after being in the business for decades. It would just have been great to have the creator of the character on a movie as garbage as Wolverine: Origins. Wein was both never shy of telling stories of burned bridges, yet he was more eager to dish out compliments than anything. Plus, him and Hugh Jackman never tired of talking about how great the other was, so it would have been fun to get his perspective on the nadir of Jackman as Wolverine. (Full Disclosure: I am biased because Logan is everything I want in a superhero movie and I'm still totally in awe of Jackman as the Canadian Murder Machine).

I'm feelin' the beat of the rhythm of the night and I wanna dance until the morning light!

Which episode did "What's it's mission?" first appear? That's gotta be in the running.

When I took Kung-Fu, we referred to students who were senior to us in the class as "Si-Hing,' which, in that context, translates to "older brother," and the teacher as "Sifu," which is analogous to teacher/father. I know Taekwondo is leagues apart from Kung-Fu stylistically, culturally, and geographically, but I think the connotation here is the same. Martial arts schools, traditionally, would "adopt" students into the fold (especially because students would often live there for years), so the concept of a new family would be reinforced by everything from daily rituals to the terminology you use to refer to one another. That tradition lives on in numerous schools around the world, even if students only take classes a few hours a week.

All this Across the Universe talk has got me...

I saw that Villainess trailer a little while ago and I REALLY want to see it. I don't know why, but I'm more excited for it than any Asian actioner since The Raid II. I hope it's good. And not a trailer, but when HDTGM inevitably does another Stephen King adaptation, we as a board should play this together:

Just realising new music for the express purpose of helping kids read because she is dedicated to making the world a better place. NBD. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Believe_in_You_(Dolly_Parton_album)

Apropos of nothing, but thanks to my participation in this thread, my phone is now giving me automatic Dolly Parton news alerts. Nice.

Thank you! And yes, I have heard that slowed-down version. An intriguing bit of audio engineering, indeed.

On the subject of different versions of Dolly songs and the like, the White Stripes version of "Jolene" first appeared as the B-side to the "Hello Operator" seven-inch, released in 2000. I became a huge fan of theirs after the release of their 'White Blood Cells' album in 2001, which contains their first hit single, "Fell in Love With a Girl." At 17 or 18, I was definitely not Cool Enough to have heard of them beforehand. I have been in unrepentant love with Jack White ever since. Albino hipster vinyl vampire? I AM INTO IT. Anyway, it was after that when I first encountered their version of "Jolene," in particular live versions of it. Maybe, at least for me, when they performed it on Conan? History and memory are fuzzy. ANYWAYS, I was aware of the Dolly Parton original before I heard White Stripes version, but hearing their cover made me examine both it and the White Stripes in a new light. Dolly often tells the story of her growing up in abject poverty and seeing the local "lady of ill repute," with her done-up hair and fake nails and outlandish outfits, and thinking that she must be the epitome of beauty. Said woman was the object of ridicule for her ill-morals, but by the same people who showed disrespect to Parton and her family. Dolly then decided she would grow up to emulate the style of this woman, who, in her young, impoverished eyes, was the peak of glamor. And the titular Jolene, as described in the song (with "flaming locks of auburn hair" and "eyes of emerald green") is the exact physical opposite of Dolly. What was it like, for both the speaker in the song and for Dolly, to view her exact opposite as the woman with the power to take her beloved away? That, after everything she has accomplished, after all she has done to transform herself into a beautiful, successful woman, the woman who embodies everything she is not is the one who is going to take away everything she has? That psychological vulnerability and honesty is something most country artists lack, so for Dolly, to be so bare and honest and pure, even when spending her entire career in heavy makeup and a wig, was immensely compelling to me. Plus, it's just a great, sad song. Hearing the White Stripes version also made me re-examine Jack White, his band, and how to interpret cover songs in general. As much artifice as the White Stripes imposed in their public image at the time, I was moved by how emotionally affected and affecting Jack White could be when performing a song by Dolly Parton, about a woman so different from him. Both versions taken into account, it's one of the most important songs in my musical development. Thank you Dolly. Thank you Jack.

Sean Astin. Tom Arnold. Jake Busey. Giant Ants.

Doesn't mean I'm not under its spell....

I still quote/reference this sketch, if only to myself. A confluence of my nerdiness and Mike Myers being real funny as this absurd character.

I don't know what defies the laws of physics more, Dolly's magic in this song or whatever Tennessee voodoo she uses in that hair:

Speaking of gross mouth jokes, the first song Dolly sings in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas contains the line "don't let your mouth overload your responsibilities," which, when sung by a chorus of prostitutes, it implies a certain indignity. Regardless, I think Dolly might be the most charismatic human to ever live. Oh, Ms. Parton, could the world ever use more people like you...

Hey there, need a more sensitive Bond Chest?

He sounds like a character in a movie set in New York in the 1970s. That story he tells of him and Joe Pantoliano getting into an argument with the AD on Eddie and the Cruisers about who would carry their luggage sounds like a scene from that time as well. Or like a Tony Soprano origin story. "I don't carry luggage." "I ain't asking ya ta carry my luggage!" "Then what the fuck we standin' around here for?" "I still gotta GET my bags, ya frickin' mamaluke!" "Ah!" "Heyyyyy!" *Numerous hand gestures*

I'm just... BURSTING with excitement...

Being that The X-Files is one of my favorite shows ever (evaaaaaar), I hereby buy into this WHOLEHEARTEDLY. While I do not credit the present administration even 1% of the competence necessary to pull off a conpiracy of this magnitude (and I feel like, if it was true, Trump would have blabbed about it on Twitter by now), I think past administrations were sure all up in aliens/Marylin's personal drug cocktails. BRB gotta write Marylin/Mulder/Scully fanfic.

Arnold having fun with bazookas is a movie I will watch FOREVER. MY MONEY IS YOURS, GUNTHER!

I saw that when I first looked up this film on IMDb and that was my exact reaction as well. And to Cinco Denio's 2001/Star is Born joke...

I mean, OBVIOUSLY...

Yeah, Lorelei is not without her self-control issues, which is why Dorothy acting as her "chaperone" is so much fun to watch, and so much fun for Dorothy. Dorothy is much more controlled of the two but she also loves to sing and cavort with... the boys. But what is also so wonderful to watch is that she gets as much fun out of being a spectator to Lorelei's fun as she does with her own fun. Sure, she might give a couple "dealer passes"-type quips (and holy hell, what a great line), but It's a show for her as well as the viewer. She loves it, and loves Lorelei.

I think the idea of both Marylin Monroe and Jane Russell living happily ever after, in any context, is appealing to all of us, especially to people who love the art they put out into the world. You know, like the peeps who participate on this board! Plus, Jane Russell is DEFINITELY a better partner, platonic or romantic, than Joe DiMaggio.

I also agree that the Dorothy/Lorelei relationship is peerless and magnificent, but that is why I would NOT want them to run off together. I kind of think that real, lifelong BFFs are an extraordinarily rare thing, and a type of relationship that is rarely captured well in TV or film. It's the same reason I am decidedly NOT a Mulder/Scully shipper and why I kinda frown at Captain America/Bucky pairings or Hermione/Harry pairings. What all those friendships have is something unique and beautiful; genuine and unfiltered affection coupled with platonic love. Maybe that's naive bullshit on my part, but I just want a world in which Captain America and Bucky can go to a baseball game together, bro hug, and eat ballpark sausages without anyone getting any dirty ideas. Is that so wrong!?!? And what do Dorothy and Lorelei do behind closed doors? On those cold nights in their cruise ship cabin alone? Choreograph those magical dance numbers! DUH!