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favorably comparing it to Ultraviolet

Damning with faint praise.

Memetics predate language.

How do you feel about Surf Ninjas?

The usually-religion-themed God Awful Movies covered it. At the end of the previous podcast, two of the hosts were excited, and the third was confused as to why. The episode opens with those two bickering - like 'who the fuck went back in time and replaced the awesome movie I remember with this piece of shit?'

And listen, I was there with you. I saw it in the ideal setting: at a frat rush. It was camp as hell, but energetic and surprising. If I sat down to watch it again I think I'd be deeply disappointed.

Joel Schumacher had the right idea, but should not have been given final edit. He was Hollywood's last expressionist. He updated Burton's inky-black Gotham with the garish colors of 90s comic books. It's still deep contrast against rough concrete. The low-angle lighting on every enormous statue just happens to be neon.

But the man could not hit the right level of camp. It wasn't completely silly, like "some days you just can't get rid of a bomb" Batman. It wasn't an internally-serious ridiculous reality like The Animated Series. It wanted pathos with Alfred and Mrs. Freeze, while still having... a Bat Credit Card.

It's easily the best of the sequel trilogy, and most popular criticism is total nonsense.

It's still a hot mess.

The casino scene is the crux of the movie. The main character - Rose - is a loyal soldier who stops a deserter 'or her sister died for nothing.' Planet Capitalism is where she's disillusioned by war profiteers and makes the unsubtle decision to free their animals. By the end she prevents said deserter from repeating her sister's sacrifice.

The Last Jedi is an anarchist critique of of Star Wars where a rebel soldier rejects the old lie.

I have no fucking idea how Disney decided to produce it as an actual Star Wars film.

the A B C B A style of story telling

"Chiastic structure" is the five-dollar term.

See also Robocop.

Idle Hands is a very late-90s stoner comedy... horror movie. This turns out not to be a winning combination of genres. It works, as both, but the audience is the overlap of a Venn diagram instead of both circles. It's a stoner movie you absolutely should not watch while stoned.

It's also packed with now-recognizable names. Seth Green, Jessica Alba, Vivica Fox, Devon Sawa, Elden Henson.

Absolutely bombed.

I admire the Wachowskis' goal of making a live-action cartoon.

I do not admire it feeling three hours long.

Pitch Black is a solid (if very 2000s) horror movie. Riddick is a bit more camp than it thinks it is and makes some eyebrow-raising dialog choices. Still fun, though. At worst it's a good bad movie.

Elmo's going to get fucked and tossed aside like every other asshole that deals with The Idiot. Did you miss the endless list of former cronies who endorsed Kamala, specifically because they worked with this walking personality disorder?

Any time you imagine some "4D chess" explanation, where surely there must self-consistent clever schemes behind this batshit insane nonsense, that is you, as a reasonable person, figuring out why a reasonable person would do something that looks batshit insane. That explanation will never predict future nonsense. These people are exactly as crazy as they appear. The gallingly simple explanation for why this all looks so fucking stupid is that fascism is not rational.