I’ve been going down the Back to the Future rabbit hole on YouTube. Tom Wilson, who played Biff, seems like a cool as hell dude. Entertaining video that has nothing to do with that statement, but is funny:
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Didn’t expect that to be as funny as it was. Tom Wilson was the best part of Josh Gad’s BTTF reunion imo. A shame he couldn’t have been there with everyone else.
I am almost caught up with work for the first time in I’m not sure when. I don’t know what to do without a tsunami of deadlines upon me.
Recommendation for something to watch? Prefer a movie or documentary. Single-sitting consumption. Assume I will be in the appropriate state of mind IYKWIM.
ATTENTION CLUELESS IS NOW AVAILABLE ON NETFLIX
The Lord has seen fit to reward me today 
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Epstein doc was ok. A lot of people complaining they should have gone more in depth about the rich people participating in the abuse and I’d have to agree. It seemed more like the cliff notes version of what happened.
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I’ve just blown through the 2 series of Dark in 3 days, magnificent.
I can’t imagine watching in non binge mode, keeping tracking of the plot would be impossible for me
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Fuck all of you. Can a single day pass without another person declaring the wonder of this show?!
I will watch season 1 this evening or tomorrow. If this isn’t the greatest thing since Johnny Mnemonic, everyone with the word “Dark” in their posts will be temp banned.
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Anyone else watching Itaewon Class? It’s a Korean drama that’s extremely popular here in Asia.
One episode in and so far I’m finding it interesting.
The Vast of Night had some great moments, would recommend for someone who’s into classic slow-burn suspense movies and wants to see an indie movie. The film goes out of its way to compare itself to The Twilight Zone, which felt presumptuous and unnecessary, but it does indeed capture much of the feel of a movie-length TZ episode.
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Just watched 13th on Netflix. It’s a 2016 documentary that examines systemic racism in America. They dive into ALEC (a group of corps and Republicans that make write laws) as well as CCA (largest for profit prison system). Both of those parts I found pretty interesting and upsetting.
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I’m so mad. Episode 1 was amazing. The English dub is excellent with marvelous acting. Aside from occasionally seeing a mouth not match the spoken words, audiences will not really notice that it has been dubbed, so don’t let that dissuade new viewers if it normally would. I showed it to my wife who has refused because she can’t stand dubs, but she is hooked too from ep 1.
Let this be a PSA to anyone still holding off on Dark.
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I watched this tonight. It felt very much like a student art house film, mostly from a script and pacing perspective.
The dialogue is one snappy set of phrases after another that often don’t matter at all to the story. They advance nothing, they teach us nothing essential about the world or characters. There’s one ten-minute dialogue sequence done in as many long single shots as possible (of which there are many excellent long single shots) where it’s like okay, if I’m supposed to remember anything in particular there, you failed. And then it turned out the audience isn’t supposed to remember anything in particular lol. It’s just the director having fun letting his characters talk endlessly.
The costumes and set design are exquisite and particular. It’s not period accurate, it’s film era accurate. Another extreme homage to the TV show it’s emulating.
If you’re watching it and wondering what’s the story, when is anything going to happen, you’ll have to wait about 60 minutes.
Those long single shots make the movie worth at least one viewing. It opens with one that’s a marvel of choreography. I can just imagine every actor falling down in relief as soon as the camera went past their frame mark.
Cliffs: It’s like what if Stephen King were born today and wrote movies instead of novels. Great if six hundred pages of wandering around 1960s milk shake era is to your taste.
Aw man, the opening 15 minutes of this movie were so irritating, definitely some arthouse bullshit. I’m glad I stuck with it, though.
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Wow are you in for a treat, Dark starts pretty slow and doesn’t really get going until ep 5, which is also when the IMDB user ratings jump for it as well. Though to be fair wife and I were hooked from ep 1 for sure. Finally finished season 2/am caught up tonight and wow - so good.
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I watched Giri/Haji a while back and really enjoyed it. The acting is superb. There’s a scene in one of the last episodes that takes an almost ridiculous artistic license; I’ll try not to spoil but it’s so abrupt and out of nowhere and something I would have openly laughed at if the show wasn’t so damn good. It actually worked.
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Watched The Fundamentals of Caring on Netflix. I’ve never seen a movie starring Paul Rudd that sucked and that streak wasn’t broken.
Wasn’t anything extraordinary but it’s a light-hearted escape from the darkness of today.
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And of course I fucked around and missed the Bruce Lee 30 for 30 and forgot to record it fml
In the good old days, ESPN would be re-airing this all morning today on ESPN2, especially during times like this because wtf else would they show? Butnahhhh, one airing only for you brah, you missed it too bad go sign up for ESPN+ madface
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great show! saw it on hulu and gave it a shot and it’s got a lot of laughs and heart. 4 bags for sure.