Unironic question: is it possible to boycott goods from a country apolitically?

The remake with Dinklage and Elijah Wood, I haven’t seen the first one

I wanted to see The Assessment but missed it in theaters. It seemed comparable to The Lobster to me, is that accurate?

The Hunt for the Red October 4.5/5: Didn’t realize this was technically an early Jack Ryan movie. This is just perfect cold war espionage drama. The twists and turns keep you hooked and it feels well paced at 2:15

The Roses 4/5: I’ve been bombarded by this ad in theaters but the movie was good. I enjoyed how I was laughing at totally different jokes than the 2 older women behind me. Maybe not worth seeing in theaters but worth a watch

The Breakfast Club 4/5: It’s a classic for a reason. The kids talking about if they’ll still be friends is just so heartbreakingly real

The Toxic Avenger 3.5/5: I am entirely unfamiliar with the source material, both comics and movies. However I found this funny, the satire was criticizing the right stuff and it was fun to watch

Twinless 4.5/5: I really didn’t know anything about this going in. I thought it might possibly be a horror movie but it is not at all. The premise of a twin support group is really cool and the movie adds a lot of layers on top. It’s ambitious to write, star, and direct your own movie but I can’t argue with success

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 3.5/5: By far the peak of the series, which is an indictment considering there are 8 movies that follow it. The music rocks, the cars are so fucking cool, and it’s still largely practical effects while being partially grounded in reality (nobody drives a car in space)

The Macarena I’d about a woman cheating on her BF getting drafted into the military with 2 other guys

Which is pretty intense for a song they taught to kids in grade school

An important thing to remember is that your job represents about a third of your life and almost half of your waking life. People as a species are sociable and want to know more about the people they spend the most time around. A lot of those interactions are not inherently trying to get something from you but are rather people just being interested in the person who are around them

Imagine getting the rush of nicotine but it tastes like blueberries instead of ash, that’s gotta be appealing. Also weed vapes are so easy to get and those are way less likely to get caught by mom and dad. Not to mention the size factor. How many packs equal one vape? I know you can easily get 10-12 joints out of a weed vape

Online dating

It was, I got laid plenty in college. I meant I would get a woman’s number, text her, then she would give 2/3 responses and disappear. It stopped almost entirely when I switched to asking for Snapchat instead

Oh, OKC used to rock a decade ago. Before they started the monitization efforts they had over a thousand questions that you could pre-sort matches based off of their importance to both of you. There wasn’t swiping, you just actually looked at profiles. It really rewarded writing good profiles which I happen to do well

You probably don’t interact with a lot of teens then. It’s pretty common in high schools and college campuses. I was told a decade ago that my green bubbles were probably why women stopped texting me after I got their number off okcupid

I remember it being a rat unless we’re discussing different parts but that’s just the reality of what you were able to get away with in 2000s media. The movie would have been NC-17 if all of the violence from the book made it in

I mean, no? It would defeat the point of the story. The monoculture of white men destroying everything around them was what Brett Easton Ellis was talking about and making clowns would have made that a different story

It’s not pointless, it has a very clear point: centralize the police in the single territory free from the federal/state devide, where the entirety of the government that controls the country functions, and place it under the direct control of an autocratic ruler who has previously used control of this territory to avoid consequences for his crimes

The primary difference is he’s doing it in year 1 in preparation for what he’s about to do instead of retroactively in the last 20 days to try to save his ass. If that doesn’t scare the shit of of you then it should

If anything he made Chani less of rug to be walked all over and gave her a personality outside of “wife to the messiah”. If you were going to bitch about anyone in the Dune movies I’d think it’d be The Lady Jessica because she is an entirely different character in the movies. I don’t think that’s a criticism because she serves the plot well, but that one is a more grounded argument

I’m a little surprised at that response because American Psycho is one of the most true to the source material movies I’ve ever seen. Whole passages were lifted and turned directly into dialog. Sure all of those white men were supposed to be corporate clones in the books but in a movie characters have to be visually distinct that’s just the nature of the mediums

I feel like the whole Gabriel thing really distracts from the plot. I compare it to the Illusive Man in Mass Effect. Why did you add a side antagonist when your primary antagonist is threatening total extinction? Were the stakes not high enough? Did you need a human face for your threat? I don’t understand what this smug asshole adds to the story besides being someone we can be happy that they exploded

Escape is a super fun movie, it walks the 80s doomerism attitude and gritty action hero line very well

The whole “man above the high table” thing from John Wick 3/4 is really weird, seems to actively detract from the plot, and has almost immediately, zero impact on the plot. I really don’t understand how that was supposed to fit in with the rest of the series

Weapons 4.5/5: I love the trend of comedy writers moving into horror. It’s very deliberate and really well made. Not quite as good as Barbarian but I’m looking forward to more

Together 3/5: It’s pretty entertaining but it really marks a lot of time. More eldritch horror and less plodding would get this movie where it needs to be

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3.5/5: Honesty until the 4th teen dies I was on Leatherface’s side. You’re in bum fuck nowhere Texas in the 70s, you ignore a creepy old guy saying “you shouldn’t be here”, you get stabbed by a drifter, then you break into obviously a hunter’s house. What the fuck did you think would happen besides you getting murdered?

Flow 4.5/5: Beautiful. This is what cinema is about, beautiful stories that can universally deliver. Congrats Latvia, you earned this

I watched an interview with Paul Rudd where he described Robinson’s process and it really cleared things up for me. He said Robinson took the script and the first thing he did was “take all the jokes out”. He thinks the funniest moments in movies and TV are never the ones that are intentionally trying to be funny. So he builds insane characters and situations that are comedic but doesn’t actually make jokes. Obviously it doesn’t work for everyone but I will say the single hardest time I have laughed in a movie theater was this year, watching Friendship, and I was the only person in the theater laughing at the “joke”. I laughed so hard and long I caused cascading laugh reactions to me laughing so hard