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Valerian is basically a Stefon bit - This movie has everything: A model lady with big eyebrows, aliens that sh!t pearls, Rihanna... and who's that by the bar? Is it an intergalactic super manly playboy? No, it's just Dane Dehaan. I remember a lot about it actually, it kinda pissed me off how someone ( Luc Besson ) can make a film so visually interesting and with so many ( good ) ideas and then just throw most of them in the trash because he still lives in the 90s, so instead he focuses on the white savior and the love story bits. And the misogyny. Boy, the misogyny... just thrown at you at every turn. Also how incredibly miscast Dane Dehaan was, how Cara Delevigne was totally fine, even charming at times, and how ( apparently ) Dane Dehaan was a total D bag to her during promo for the film.

No, Sir. This needs to be it's own category. I nominate: 5 - Best Audience Baby; 6 - Best Post-Apocalyptic Dumpster Fire Rant, feat Jessica StClair ( or other )

I just found out about...this, and honestly, it might be too bad for the podcast. Sean Hayes plays a biological, actual woman named Susan, who is lazy. Starring Sean Hayes, Mathew Broderick, Emmy winner Margo Martindale, Oscar winner Allison Janney, and Oscar winner Jim Rash I am legitimately offended this film exists. Link to IMDb

Don't know if these are helping anyone, but here are some of my most heard this year so far + a couple of my all time faves. 20 songs, 1 hour 24 minutes. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4r2bP9TF57giu6ImaNwzt1?si=dTWScdAsSLaCG3CWplc9xQ

Jupiter Ascending is a HDTGM ep ( i googled it; #112 ), but i'd be down to seeing it again. I have a LOT of thoughts on Eddie Redmayne. I've also never seen John Carter ( of Mars ), and one of my favorite science pods The Common Descent Podcast just did a mini ep on Tremors, so, those three get my vote. Bees, Martians or Graboids.

Yes. It's not super common, but it can happen in the social insects i mentioned if the colony is under stress or if there aren't any suitable partners elsewhere, which would be the case here, as it seems that there is only one Taotei colony. Even in mammals, it happens in zoos ( not so much nowadays ), in feral cat colonies... Inbreeding is the way you got all the different dog/cat/fish/bird/cow/goat/sheep/insert-any-domesticated-or-somewhat-domesticated-animal-here breeds. And some fruit flies actually seem to favor incest, because why change a winning formula? If your children inbreed, that's your successful genes beeing spread. And then there's mites, where at least one species has the male impregnating his sisters while still inside the womb. You asked. But there are lots of different, non sexual reproduction strategies. Maybe all the Taotei we see are clones, or clonal. Aphids can have super complicated life cycles, where at one point, clone females are born already pregnant with the next generation of ( different bodied ) clone females. In the words of a famous philosopher, " Life, uh... Finds a way ".

And why do they all have names?

Assorted musings: - The preview for this film was one of the first times i remember seeing a piece of media, and out loud, for real, saying " Oh NO...! ". I became, as the kids are saying these days, " Woke " and " Shook ". - I told my co workers about it. Then i had to show them the preview, because they thought i was kidding. They too were shook ( not all of them got woke though ). - I thought they'd be fighting dragons. Would it have been stupid? Yes. Would it have made more sense? Yes. - Whenever i see the Great Wall of China i think about the Futurama gag where they knock it down and then the Mongols invade. - When June was relating to the Taotei, she said " fightfightfight ", like on the Itchy and Scratchy Show theme song. COINCIDENCE??? Yes. - The Taotei life cycle is very insect like. Ants, wasps, bees and termites all have social hierarchies, and each has a different body type ( maybe the ones around the Queen were drones ). Cicadas have a very long larval development stage, as a reproductive strategy to minimize the number of predators that they face when they eventually emerge. The Taotei life cycle seems to be 60 years, which would definitely make it longer than the average human life expectancy in the middle ages. Unfortunately for them, humans have developed the concept of time, so they knew when they were coming. Guys, maybe the Taotei were REAL, and Matt Damon helped make them extinct. - Migrating birds have tiny metallic beads inside their heads, and that's how they know where to go, using the Earth's magnetic field. Do magnets screw them up? I don't know, try it out with your local geese. - Jason Mantzoukas seemed confounded by the idea of bipedal animals; Examples of bipedal animals include: Jason Mantzoukas. - This film wasn't as bad or cringey as it seemed at first, but the same can't be said of Matt Damon

My " Most Listened in 2019 " from Spotify, edited down to just 37 songs/ 2 hours and 37 minutes. Indie, folk, alt, some electro. Hope someone likes it https://open.spotify.com/playlist/04JnBTXgq7iSoGmApT5tG1?si=ZJBWbp1mSxq6HrVJ0Z8J2A

To quote a joke i saw on Twitter, today is Day. I'm doing pretty well, got my books, my music and my pods, my plants and my fish, some very dumb text chains going on, couple of drive runs to my mom to bring her food and stuff for her crafts ( and to help with my sanity ), BUT i may be going back to work tomorrow? My country is on a National emergency shutdown until the 3rd of April ( at least ), but our HR hasn't said anything else since they were forced to close because an entire section of my company told them they wouldn't go back decided to close out of " respect for the workforce " 2 weeks ago, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That's insane. Apparently that's what they're charging for movies that didn't get released in the theaters because of the , isn't that like twice the price of a " normal " movie ticket in the US?

Yeah, i legit liked it I think that's the trick with Nick Cage. Mom and Dad and Mandy are also good examples of this. The plot is pretty close to the original story, updated in a believable, very plausible way, the fx aren't amazing, but the budget probably wasn't that big and they use them well, and the narrator being a POC is a really nice FU to H.P. Lovecraft.

YAY! I WIN! AND John butchered my name TWICE, in DIFFERENT WAYS! I don't think they need to see Resident Evil, they already did Ultraviolet which is basically bargain bin RE anyway. Yeah... It's not like it's a deal breaker or anything. If you SO is uncomfortable with something, don't ask/guilt/force them to do it. Also, you don't have to share everything.

I liked the ending of Legion, you can't say that they 100% nailed it, but ending was very sweet, and the were a a great take on But hey, GrahamS, lets start building a list. Are we going full Cage? Definitely down for Raising Arizona and Mandy, and i still haven't seen Color Out of Space but that one def looks like HDTGM material. We got 2 weeks ( at least ) from work starting today, i'm adding The Lighthouse and Portrait of a Lady on Fire to my must see list.

The Witcher is fun, less Game of Thron-ey than i thought it would be, and better for it ( Although there are dragons. And nudity ). I'm crossing my fingers for a couple of days to finally watch the last eps of The Good Place. Hope everybody is ok, and taking precautions. Be safe yall.

If you look at box office, Underworld really doesn't make that much worldwide. According to Wikipedia , number 4 got the best results ( 62M US, 160M WW ) but that was against a 70M budget. If you discount the first one, most of them kinda just scrape by. And if you compare it with Resident Evil, it's nowhere near as successful - The five Underworlds had a combined budget of around 207M, with a BO of 540M, while Resident Evil had a combined ( six films ) budget of 288M, with a worldwide BO of 1.230M. Yup. One billion. Who's watching these films? Maybe China? I dunno. Is Underworld a money laundering operation? Probably. Fight me/Don't fight me. Also, " If you want a freaking story sit down with my wife and watch Lifetime " - Me, a gay European man.

I'm afraid Foodfight! would break them. I don't think June in particular would make it through it. A Sound of Thunder enrages me. The moment i saw they were covering it, i had to see it again. I couldn't help myself. Just finished it, and i can't go to sleep now, i'm... i'm really angry. Stupid effing fillum

Guys, you think it's too late to call Social Services on Pauls parents?

Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Airplane! always make me feel better. Outside of film, there's the " Travel Bug with August Lindt " ep from S01 of The Andy Daly Personal Pizza Party Podcast, and lately this:

We have different definitions of what a gem is. For those who are willing to go further into the Breeniverse, just know that this is his masterpiece. Pre-Fateful-Findings films are just as crazy, but not as " good ", and his later films get nastier and more bitter, and are much less enjoyable " enjoyable ". Neil Breen is a very angry multimillionaire. Neil Breen saw 6 Underground, and he both wished he had made it and also lived it IRL. Neil Breen believes he is Ryan Reynolds. PS - The kissing sounds... Ewww.

Loved Parasite, really liked Ad Astra and Midsommar because they are really beautiful to watch, the first half of In Fabric is awesome. Brightburn and Velvet Buzzsaw are a complete waste of a good premise ( VB better than BB ). Yup. Went in expecting nothing, still left disappointed. The Dead Don't Die. Couldn't finish it.

Baccarat does not involve dice or a board. You can play it at home, all it takes is a deck of cards ( or more ) and 2 people ( or more ), but unless there's money/beans/booze/whatever involved, you'd be bored out of your mind. I'd totally be down for a " Jessica St Clair Explains It All " type podcast, especially if Jason featured heavily just to ground it to reality ( in a Jessica St Clair + Jason Mantzoukas pairing, Jason is the straight man ).

Gene Kelly is so attractive ( to me ) that i can't see anything with him in it. I just... zone... out. I know he was straight, i know he wasn't nice to his co-stars in Singing In The Rain, i know he is dead. I don't care. Sorry, i just needed to get that off my chest and onto the internets.

I really wanted to like it more than i did. It's fine for what it is, but with all the noise that was made around it, between the idiots complaining about " ugh, GIRLS!!! ", but also the film makers themselves saying that the film wasn't successful because " people didn't support indie films and/or/with women and that's why we can't get nice things ", i really thought i was up for something amazing. And it wasn't. It was fine. It isn't a rip off of Super Bad because that film has been made a thousand times, and it didn't do better in the box office maybe because of incels, sure, but also maybe because it's just fine. It's just a perfectly fine, at times funny film. It's kind of a more realistic-feeling* Lady Bird, while also wanting you to believe that Billie Lourd is a teenager. It has problems with tone, and with being basically the same old story that you've seen many times before. It does have a slightly different POV because it was directed by a woman, and you can tell the difference. It is, at times, very funny. If you're having doubts about seeing it, you can definitely give it a pass. If you want to see something that isn't superheroes or post-apocalyptic distopias, please, see this instead. It's fine. It's a nice movie, and i don't mean nice in a demeaning way. Well, not too much. *Lady Bird is infinitely better than this.

As someone who sees himself as a major Car Guy, let me say this ( to Paul, because in my mind he reads these, and to everybody else ) Ahem: . . . MINIVANS ARE NICE. Congratulations Paul, on buying a car that a) makes sense for you and your family; and that b) YOU like. Fuck that guy. Eww.