Tubi and Pluto probably have The Hunger horror anthology series from 90s if you want some to see some good Stamp. He’s the host of the first season, and every intro is him puttering around a dilapidated mansion just going off about subjects that are completely unrelated to the themes of the subsequent stories. The show is mid-to-garbage otherwise, but all of those 90-second monologues are incredible. 

Master of Puppets is my 6-year-olds favorite song, and he told me it’s about the Puppet Wizard from Teen Titans Go! And I think he would know. 

29 minutes ago, supremebve said:

If I had to describe the perfect bench press body, Jim Neidhart is who I would point at.  That dude's body was 87.6% chest.  

That cushioning from his goatee was a great safeguard against dropping the barbell on his throat too. Perfect bench press body. 

Finding out Isn’t She Lovely was about a baby and not a love interest after not paying attention to the lyrics for decades caught me off guard.

When Boogie Nights came out my mom’s friend had just started seeing a new guy, and when we spent time with them he complained about having to wait until the last scene to see Diggler’s hog. Even at the age of ten I sensed that relationship wasn’t going far. 

Nothing against Liam Neeson, but if Sheen had stayed out of his own way he’d have been the perfect Frank Drebin Jr. 

Costner’s flyover state movies suck ass. He’s more convincing as Robin Hood. 

Edit: Too mean-spirited 

Watched Daredevil Born Again. Impressive first episode followed by redundant and borderline insulting shit. And then they spent the last few minutes of the finale threatening to do the exact same thing next season. Pass. 

I’ve known several people in their 70s diagnosed with leukemia and essentially told not to sweat it because they’ll presumably die of something else first. 

I forget, how much money did Hogan donate to Dean’s family?

I think TK’s a clown and I haven’t watched any wrestling in a long time, let alone his bullshit, but c’mon, he’s done actual material good for people related to the board. That doesn’t make him immune from criticism, but it also doesn’t mean you have to overcompensate and weigh his soul against every feather that falls from the sky. 
 

Twelve pages for what could’ve been a gif of a ticker tape parade and then everyone moving on.

He had a talent for whipping rubes into a frenzy. Of course, it turns out that’s what rubes love to do, be whipped into a frenzy by repulsive stooges.

 

I apologize for being mean. We’re all in Hell. I’ll leave you all to it. 

Not using the devices that you need to literally exist in the modern world or even ethical shopping is a smidge harder than simply not watching people pretend to beat each other up. 

1 minute ago, SirSmUgly said:

Good for you! I'm glad that you can live with yourself using devices that rely on underpaid and abused labor which scars the earth and accellerates climate change that will kill millions in the Global South to share with us how morally upright you are!

Seriously, I am genuinely happy that you think so well of yourself. It's good to have a sense of self-esteem. 

Clown argument

5 minutes ago, SirSmUgly said:

Good for you, buddy. 

I'm pretty certain that wrestlers aren't staying up at night worrying about whether or not (BP) respects them for it, just as sure as I am that whatever you do for a living profits some evil people and that whatever device you typed this response on definitely profited some evil people. 

Yeah, I can’t control what trashy people think about, you’re absolutely right. I assure you that I couldn’t live with myself working for somewhere I thought did evil, so I don’t. It’s not always easy, but it’s worth it. 

33 minutes ago, SirSmUgly said:

Literally everyone here needs to follow a trade to make money, and monsters run the show at all levels of those trades. I think it's exceptionally silly to tell a worker that they're a hypocrite for getting a job in their field and disagreeing with the monsters who make money from their labor. That's my hot take. 

Did the Khan family not give money to Trump for at least one of his inaugurations? Does that make anyone who watches or works for WWE amoral? 

I mean, if you want to argue that we need way fewer billionaires and way more worker-owned companies to avoid this issue, I'm right there with you. 

I don’t watch AEW either. If someone can’t even find the integrity to stop watching people play-fighting they’re going to have a hard time making real sacrifices as the world moves on from what it used to be. 

Wrestlers can work wherever they want, I don’t have to respect them for it. 

Anyone who watches or works for WWE is an amoral insect. 

Speaking of Robin Williams, one time we put on World’s Greatest Dad when my sister-in-law was over because she said she’d been wanting to see it. Halfway through, after some heavy shit goes down, she asked when John Travolta was going to show up. Yes, she thought the movie was Old Dogs. 

825 Forest Road:

Found footage auteur Stephen Cognetti, creator of the Hell House LLC franchise, directs his first traditional narrative feature.

Cognetti has a talent for creating spooky scenarios and shooting them to maximum effect, and there’s a few of those moments here. The problem is it’s otherwise a rather tepid American J-horror (vengeful spirit curses small town and takes out an ensemble cast in a series of disjointed vignettes.) Even the scenes that work are mined from very similar moments in the Hell House movies.

I was disappointed that Cognetti doesn’t  stretch himself artistically, and he shows here that he needs a writing partner to mold and define his ideas. He has a new non-found-footage Hell House movie coming out next; that franchise has its ups and downs, but I’m still hopeful Cognetti will learn from his mistakes on this picture. 

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34 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:

You probably have, but I have to ask, have you seen Stanley's documentary on the film? I hope so. I hope EVERYONE would watch that; it's crazy, in many ways 😄

I haven’t but I should. I’m aware of a lot of the set stories like Stanley spying on the production after he was fired and Brando trying to rewrite it so Moreau is part whale and has a blowhole. 

Murray’s deadpan is so good. He’s at his best when his character thinks he’s smarter than everyone else. Sometimes the character revels in it and sometimes it makes them absolutely miserable. His movies where he’s being a plain old doofus are hit or miss for me. 

While we’re talking comedy and 80s westerns, Three Amigos! John Landis should’ve been in jail instead of making it, but he made it and it’s good. 

I think that’s one of the movie’s larger issues. There’s quite a bit of it where it feels like earnest, contemplative, high minded sci-fi in the vein of A.I. or Gattaca, but it’s consistently deflated by humor that was either a studio note or Robin riffing on set.

Dramedy Robin Williams hardly ever works. He needed the guardrails of a consistent tone, plus directors and editors who weren’t precious about his schtick and would be willing to leave it on the cutting room floor. 

The characterization of Cecile in Cruel Intentions makes it feel like the other characters are taking advantage of someone who’s mentally disabled. It’s insane. 

Williams appeared in some dogshit movies in the last decade of his life, but he also gave some great performances in imperfect but fascinating smaller films.  I think he’s excellent in World’s Greatest Dad, Boulevard, The Night Listener, and The Final Cut. 

Also, shoutout to his very faithful adaptation of John Irving’s The World According to Garp.