I was going to say you could just go to Starbucks and save some money. Then I thought about that for a second and realized, no.
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I think it’s going to be around for a very long time. The kids who grew up fully immersed in that world are just starting to be old enough to have children of their own and they’re absolutely going to be reading the books and showing the movies to them.
Some people trying really hard to be contrarian ITT. Please tell me you aren’t the cool-guy hipster who loudly asks about the sportsball score at the Super Bowl party.
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Have 9 year old. He loves Star Wars and is totally meh on Harry Potter.
I haven’t watched or read any Harry Potter, but it has nothing to do with trying to be cool. It just has never been any more on my radar than knowing they were a huge hit with the younger generation. They mean nothing to my daughter’s generation though, or at least she has never shown the slightest interest in reading the books or seeing the movies, and neither have her friends as far as I can tell.
I also have almost no clue about any modern pop music. And watching the “trivia” that’s been posted on this site, I’m shocked about how many people on here can’t answer obvious (to me) questions about Skynard and The Kinks. Are they trying to be “cool”?
I mean, don’t get me wrong. I totally get the movie hate, particularly the LOTR series and especially the Hobbit follow-up prequel series. Jackson went long on CGI and short on story, and this is especially inexcusable in his case because he was handed a goddamned literary masterpiece and a billion dollars and needed to do Literally Nothing as far as writing goes. Instead he chose to do Something and what do you know! Not only did the purists despise it, people who’d never been exposed to it hated it too because it was disjointed and made no sense in a lot of places and just stunk and it didn’t have to. I’m with you there believe me.
My hot takes reference above was a shout-out to the dunderheads trying to handwaive two of the most beloved, critically-acclaimed and influential series of writings of that genre of the 20th century. It’s just laughably absurd. I mean, maybe I’m old fashioned. Maybe I’m just old idk. I can separate the art from the artist, though, to an extent. I will still watch Chinatown whenever I run across it on the cable TV while firmly believing that Roman Polanski belongs in prison. I still like Woody Allen’s movies while still believing Ronan Farrow and still thinking Woody’s a fucking creep for marrying his stepdaughter. And I still like the Harry Potter universe while being disgusted with Rowling’s tweet (for which she lamely apologized, I guess?) and I need to hear more from her because I think there may be a valid debate to be had regarding feminist issues possibly conflicting with transgender issues but I sure as fuck ain’t wading into a thread hosted by noted ■■■■ rag Well Named to discuss them.
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I seriously doubt it. HP doesn’t really stand out the way LotR or Star Wars do and there’s a massive YA fiction industry cranking out books for kids of similar quality. I don’t see it having any kind of staying power. Plus JK Rowling seems to be actively trying to make herself problematic.
I think Potter is way more popular than Tolkien’s stuff at this point, and this will only continue now that Christopher Tolkien is dead. There’s a whole section of Univesal’s parks devoted to it now.
The fact that the second prequel film bombed certainly didn’t help though, and now Rowling is out there shitting the bed at every turn so I guess we will see.
Examples?
Favourite films include Before Series, Chungking Express, and Three Colours trilogy.
The old world will burn in the fires of industry.
Glengarry Glen Ross seems like a top fiver for this particular genre
Fences
Basically any movie based on a play
Nah
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A Few Good Men
The Big Chill
Twelve Angry Men (play)
…and nearly every movie on the Lifetime Channel, up until to the pentultimate scene where the heroine kills the psychotic stalker/nanny/ex-bf/MIL/Karen, etc.
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“We are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying the below individual in reference to an assault that took place this morning on the Capital Crescent trail. Please contact Det. Lopez with any information,” read a tweet sent June 2 from the department and shared more than 55,000 times.
But the Park Police had made an error. “Correction, the incident occurred yesterday morning, 6/1/2020,” they wrote in a follow up tweet. As with most such clarifications, it had only a fraction of the reach: a mere 2,000 shares.
It was based on that initial, false information that Weinberg had become a suspect for the internet mob. To his surprise, the app that he used to record his regular rides from Bethesda into Georgetown via the Capital Crescent Trail shared that information publicly, not just with his network of friends and followers. Someone had located a record of his ride on the path on June 2, matched it to the location of the assault from the video, matched his profile picture — white guy, aviator-style sunglasses, helmet obscuring much of his head — to the man in the video, and shared the hunch publicly.
Reminder to take your damn privacy seriously and stop voluntarily giving away all your damn personal information because you think it’s nbd.
Will never happen. Need to get the K-pop people flooding everything with so much bad data that it’s all useless.
The @BestOf account is fun. But I get that it’s also a lot of work. Maybe we could take shifts if the person running it is out of time to work on it for now? There hasn’t been a bump in a few months.