Cameron H.

I love both of them, but yes, more Jack Black as Madison. She is the heart of the franchise (for me anyway) and her absence was sorely missed in the second.

That’s wonderful to hear! When I read your Tweet, I wanted to congratulate you on your win, but I thought you might enjoy the surprise.

Congratulations @Elektra Boogaloo! Well deserved win!

In spontaneous dance combat, how does one determine who wins? It seems to me that two people will dance at each other for a bit and then suddenly one of them will throw themselves onto the roof of a car or something like they've been telekinetically flung. Is it simply a matter honor?

Regarding the hospital dance scene, it is worth pointing out that there are historical antecedents to mass compulsive (and deadly) dancing epidemics. Independently verified by reliable contemporary witnesses, the first recorded case of "The Dancing Plague" occurred along the Rhine River in 1374. During that time, up to 400 men, women, and children were overcome with the insatiable need dance. (Dance Fever, if you will). It was reported that the people "scarcely paus[ed] to rest or eat, [dancing] for hours or even days in succession." Smaller outbreaks were recorded over the ensuing 200 hundred years with another large scale instance occurring in Strasbourg in 1518. Why this occurred is still up for debate, but as with a lot of strange behavior during the Middle Ages, The Dancing Plague has been attributed to the accidental ingestion of ergot -- "a mold containing psychotropic chemicals," sometimes referred to as St Anthony's Fire. This mold would grow on their grain stores and eating it would cause the people to essentially trip balls. (As an aside, ergot contamination has been suggested as a possible cause for the strange behavior exhibited by some of the victims of the Salem Witch Trial.) However, others have attempted to explain this phenomenon as mass psychogenic illness (i.e. mass hysteria). It has been observed that the dancing epidemics of 1374 and 1518 were both preceded by a prolonged periods of hardship in the region -- floods, famine, disease, inflation, etc. In short, during these times of hardship, shared trauma builds up within a group and can potentially manifest as mass motor hysteria. These occurrences usually begin in closed systems with people sharing similar stresses and beliefs. If, for example, the shared beliefs are supernatural in nature, this hysteria is often couched in the mythology of that group. However, these bouts of shared motor hysteria can also occur within secular groups, often, perhaps unsurprisingly, with school age children. Is it possible, due to the looming closure of Miracles, Kelly's familial strife, and Turbo's grievous injuries there was enough shared trauma to induced a mass dissociative trance that contaminated the hospital wing? ...Or maybe that pizza Ozone and Kelly ate was just made with really, really bad bread.

June might not know the difference between popping and locking and "doing the robot," but clearly, the actor who played Turbo did. Actor Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers, played "Good Robot Bill" in the now classic Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.

I just took it that this movie is about Miracles.

Which The Guest is this? With Dan Stevens? nm - I guess that’s the only one. It looks like it’s on Netflix.

In regards to Lucia, Turbo's paramour, and why she was hiding in the hospital linen closet, I think I have an explanation. The movie takes great pains to show us that Lucia cannot speak English, and it is abundantly clear, based on the nurse's reaction, that the hospital staff has no interest in bilingualism. I think what we can infer from this is that Lucia probably probably came to visit Turbo in the hospital, but was unable to communicate her intention to the hospital staff. This means, in order to see him, she most likely had to sneak in. She was hiding because if anyone caught her, she would be unable to answer their questions. And even if she was able to non-verbally express her feelings, there was no telling that they would allow her to stay. I also think we are meant to believe she was so smitten with Turbo, she was unwilling to leave his side. I think she may have been hiding so she could be with him outside visiting hours. She only reveals herself when it is his friends in the room and there is no hospital staff present. I mean, yeah, I guess it is a little bit weird, but I think you need to put yourself in her position. If a loved one fell into a coma and was hospitalized in an area or country with a language other than your own, and with no interest in trying to communicate with you, what lengths would you go to to be by their side?

I’ve been thinking of you ever since this was announced.

Bobbing along, we watched:

Maybe it’s not so much a liberation, but a declaration of, “Yeah, I can do all this by myself.”

I appreciate it — lol

I know you're joking, but I'm excited by the title. In the past, he's used his self-titled albums to be more experimental. If he's calling this "3" I think we can expect something kind of weird.

Off topic...

I hope your mother is okay.

If you're wondering how on the ball award ceremonies are, Angela Lansbury was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical in 1971 for this film. She lost to Twiggy in a movie called The Boy Friend. The other nominees were equally obscure, at least to me. In fact, the only nominated actress in a film I've heard of is Ruth Gordon as Maude in Harold and Maude -- which she totally should have won. I guess Bedknobs and Brromsticks and Harold and Maude had the last laugh, huh?

It feels so out of left field, too. She's all in, she has a talent, and then she's like, "I guess I'll marry this guy and raise these kids now."

This is definitely a movie that was on high rotation for me as a child as well. I really like "Portobello Road," "Age of Not Believing," and "Bobbing Along." I agree, I'm not sure how well this holds up without the nostalgia factor, though. I showed this to my kids a few years ago and they really couldn't be bothered. It's also funny to me how much I loved the animated sequence as a child, but now I think it's the weakest moment. Since I think the comparisons are inevitable, I think Mary Poppins has the better music, and is better done overall, but I think I prefer the story of Bedknobs and Broomsticks -- even if I'm a little disappointed she gives up being a witch at the end.

Yes, Cinco has figured it out! I haven't been able to do much more than test, but it would be nice to get some kind of steady movie watching thing going again.

Happy 95th Birthday!

Yeah, I missed it as well. I just couldn't make the time. Like Jason said, most of my media consumption is done in chunks. If they expand that window it would work so much better,

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