As I said
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I always found the criticism of rooting for Walt weird. Itâs a TV show itâs more entertaining the more messed up shit he does!
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Obviously this. The whole idea of an antihero is you are rooting for the bad guy.
Well, you must have missed the word that came down from TV critics in the 2010s, that watching TV is reflective of your morality and watching the right shows makes you a good person.
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Lol true true.
The people who bothered me were those who took hatred of Skylar further and hated the actress as though they were the same person. Thatâs something the actress talked about. Lol at asking audiences not to associate a performer with their most high-profile role, but fair enough to say donât be an asshole about it imo
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There are, unfortunately, a lot of spoiled children and emotional infants watching these shows. But the flipside of that is, I donât think you can write toward them, or you end up making a show thatâs less about characters and story and more about imparting moral lessons. If youâre writing a show for adults, you have to trust your audience to be adults.
This is one reason I think Rick and Morty hasnât been as good in recent seasons-- Dan Harmon is so bothered by the shitty Rick fans that he goes over-the-top writing Rick as an asshole and having everyone call him an asshole⌠but there are never any real consequences for it. If heâs as big an asshole as everyone seems to think, they shouldâve given him the boot by now. (Then again, he had the same problem at times with Community, with everyone insisting over and over that a mildly dysfunctional group of mostly young adults largely being manipulated by a handsome sleazebag was the most toxic toxic to ever toxic a toxic.)
If you have this opinion (which I agree with), and you havenât checked out Solar Opposites yet, you should.
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I have. I thought it was great. It really flips the formula on Rick and Mortyâ instead of humans dealing with crazy alien cultures and landscapes, aliens have to deal with suburban mundanity. But itâs funny in how their (literal) alien morality bumps up against Earth, and how they regard it, and how people treat them-- nobody seems to much care that aliens have made contact with Earth beyond the fact that these particular aliens are mildly annoying.
I am watching now and really noticing the score/sound design, and that it annoys me. Like other elements of this show itâs overdone.
the second decade of the 21st century. corporations rule. the world is threatened by a new plague. fatal, epidemic, its cure unknown. working class resistance cells use human couriers to memorize and deliver important messages because all electronics can be hacked. this is the world of Johnny Mnemonic, a 1995 action movie starring keanu reeves!! keanu is johnny mnemonic!! and heâs gotta do one last job in order to reverse his synthetically-induced amnesia. elon musk watched this movie on drugs and invested a billion dollars in basically this exact technology. btw anyone who plugs their brains into elonâs machine is 100% going to go crazy, they decided they donât need neuroscientists and are doing it with all engineers lol what could go wrong
why havenât you heard of this movie? probably because it sucks. the acting is bad. the story is bad. the direction is fine for mid-90s. 2 bags of popcorn
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Have you heard the IDEOAT bonus episode about Johnny Mnemonic? It is worth the price of admission for sure.
PS: You didnât even mention that a yung Ice-T is in this. Oh, and also Henry Rollins is cast as a science/tech dude in this movie because thatâs just great casting right there. Oh, and Takeshi Kitano was in this movie long before he was known as Beat Takeishi. This is one of the worst B-movies of all time but also itâs full of guys who went on to have great careers. And also Dolph Lundgren is in it.
If you want a âso bad itâs hilariousâ movie, this is a good pick.
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I didnât hear that podcast, I just saw it pop up on hulu. Read the synopsis and strapped myself in for fun, but was let down because I expected an actual movie
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MFing Henry Rollins in a labcoat and nerd glasses hacking into the mainframe and plugging Keanu into the Matrix, this movie is incredible.
INTERNET-2021
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I wish I were fortunate enough to have never seen Johnny Mnemonic.
There are 2 upcoming projects based on William Gibsonâs stories. I sincerely hope they are better than Johnny Mnemonic and those two awful X-Files episodes he wrote.
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I started American Murder but realized I listened to a podcast about this already and was very disappointed
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I spent my formative years consuming William Gibson cyberpunk stuff like Johnny Mnemonic and Blade Runner and wound up believing that in the year 2020 we would all need a working knowledge of Japanese because thatâs the language of the future and we will all be ordering lunch at gritty ramen carts just like in Blade Runner and you need to know that âfutatsuâ means âtwoâ and not âfourâ or else youâll look foolish when you are ordering noodles. So ofc in high school I decided to take Japanese instead of an actually useful language like Spanish, fml. The upshot is that I will look like a cool guy if any ramen food trucks come to my area.
Anyway, basically what Iâm saying is that highschool teens are pretty fucking dumb and they make bad life decisions.
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I fucking love Johnny Mnemonic.
That early scene where he focuses with Tai Chi is how he got the role for Neo. You could think of this as a prior iteration of The One. Both from the Matrix and Jet Li.
Beets, you left out the best part. The plague is caused by all of the microwaves from the plethora of technology. Thatâs 5-G baby. Commonly referred to today as COVID.
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For the life of me, I couldnât figure out why The Impossible was trending at #2 in Netflixâs Top 10. Itâs a very good but sort-of old movie based on a true story about a family on vacation in Thailand who was savaged in a huge tsunami.
But I remembered it as very good so put it on andâoh thatâs why itâs trending! One of their kids is played by current Spider-Man actor Tom Holland.
Itâs also a story that evokes hope in the darkest tragedies. Maybe thatâs also something audiences are reaching for this week.
The good thing is that if you give it a shot and donât like it, you can turn it off as soon as the tsunami hits and pretend itâs the origin story of how Peter Parker lost his parents.
I have in fact seen it-- in theaters! I donât remember it being that good, but that was literally 25 years ago. I do remember the guy with the laser-thumb weapon slicing one of his underlings into a few pieces and the pieces sliding off his trunk. It was freaky.