Tried watching the original Alien with my 11 year old tonight. She tapped out when John Hurt showed up with the creature on his face. I’ll try again next year.
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First time I’m writing a user note and it’s not a good one
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as if
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If you exclude the step incest that movie is pretty good.
It’s a predecessor to the most popular genre in porn today! 
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All sexual taboos should have a Paul Rudd exemption anyway.
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Also incest is bad because it’s about abuse and fiduciary duties and shit, not actually because you’re going to give birth to a baby with a flipper or something, so even as a kid Clueless made me feel icky.
Also one of the first movies I remember seeing casual teenage drug use painted realistically.
OK so for movie night my wife and I watched King of Staten Island.
I’d give it a C+. Pete Davidson’s character (which is really just Pete Davidson) is extremely unlikable and his “redemption” is rushed, which is crazy given the fact that the movie is way too long. Supporting actors are all somewhere between good and great, with Ricky Velez as Pete’s best friend (which apparently he also is IRL) as the standout. Bill Burr is good.
Basically I think this movie will get treated the way Pete Davidson IRL and his character in this movie are treated: it’s pretty annoying but people will be nice to it because it has a good heart and some redeeming qualities.
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For movie night wife and I watched Secretary.
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Humidty index rose by 10% in your neighborhood last night 
Even Tabb was like goddamnit I just got my apartment to cool down!!!
We watched Spaceship Earth. Great but nowhere near the twists and debauchery the trailer promised. I expected Tiger King or Wild Wild Country levels of madness. Still very cool and must have been the inspiration for the cult classic Biodome.
It’s the only “good” one. I tried watching some others and they really are a product of their time.
I heard Pauly on a podcast a while back. I think it was Jeff Ross’ podcast and I think it was not long after his mom died. He’s still doing standup and still touring and apparently still doing well and prefers the clubs in the heartland to the ones on the coast.
(For those who don’t know his mom was Mitzi Shore, she ran the Comedy Store for decades and was known as a kingmaker who gave quite a few now-famous comedians their starts over many, many years, though she whiffed on several high-profile ones, most notably Jerry Seinfeld whom she didn’t like.)
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He’s doing a 3 night stint at a new OKC comedy club this month.
ETA: Next Thur-Sat
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Son in Law anyone?
Its not terribad.
It’s atrocious lol when was the last time you watched it?
They were bad then too. The difference was you were a teenager. (I loved Biodome).
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Still no Invisible Man as my wife keeps cancelling movie night, maybe I should cue up Secretary. Anyway, instead I watched all 159 minutes of Dragged Across Concrete a deliberately slow and pedantic crime movie where Mel Gibson plays an aging racist, (imagine that!) It was interesting and in the end I think I just about liked it, but then I have a thing for films that are long and slow moving so I don’t know how universal that would be. It’s stylised and self-conscious and the dialogue can be annoying, being about 60% one-liners that no one would ever say in real life. It’s also one of those crime movies all about Serious MenTM that’s shot through with a misogyny it is either unaware of or mistakenly thinks is an acceptable motif. It’s built around a long, tense and violent heist and its aftermath, and the precison of it all is what makes the film worth seeing, I think. The director did a Western a few years back, Bone Tomahawk, that I remember wanting to see but never did, and I think I will now seek that out.
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The best Pauly Shore movie is probably A Goofy Movie.