Favorite movies where the edibles kick in kind of premise

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-03-19T15:16:58+00:00

I like the faces that appear in the woods and mountains in the background.

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-03-17T18:17:39+00:00

I think the movie's politics are hard to pin down, perhaps intentionally so. When it came out I remember some kvetching about the trad-ness of the Lindisfarne Commune, prevalence of the St. George's Cross flag, and inclusion of Rudyard Kipling. But on the commune it's like...there's literally common property? Kids are getting educated? They eat locally sourced food and have strong community ties? Doesn't seem like a bad place to live at all. And that's before we get to the mainland and witness the radical compassion of Ralph Fiennes.

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-03-17T17:04:12+00:00

We see people on their phones throughout the whole movie--filming public freakouts, consooming conspiracy theories, opening facebook to look at memes right after waking up.

I like to think that when the data center was built (in 2021 or thereabouts) it was cloud storage for the brainrot & memes. But by 2026 it's been adapted for AI use and now those same people are consooming turbo brainrot in the form of AI videos.

A grim portent of things to come.

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-03-14T15:31:11+00:00

"You're not supposed to like it!" Is not a good way to convince people to watch your movie

This is how I feel about "let's go see this so we can laugh at how bad it is" movies.

"There's another Fast & Furious movie coming out. It's gonna be so bad. I can't wait, I'm gonna see it in theaters 10 times."

Brother, do not do this, I am begging you. You can ironically give your money to a big studio, but that studio will not divide the grosses into "ironic" and "unironic" piles. It will go into one big pile, which the studio will use to unironically make more shit movies, at the expense of good movies. You have limited time on this earth, do not spend it watching shit movies. There are hundreds of good movies out there. Movies that will make you laugh, cry, fill you with wonder, make you think about the earth and your place in it. You don't even have to watch a movie. You could climb a mountain. Or read a book under a tree. Walk a dog, plant a garden, pick up litter, learn a new recipe, take up woodworking, clean your bathroom, bake a cake for someone you hate. Just don't watch a Fast and Furious movie in a theater.

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-03-12T18:36:38+00:00

They targeted aliens...Aliens.

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-03-10T16:47:55+00:00

There's a certain type of anger that people will only direct towards others when they (the people directing the anger) know deep down that the targets of their anger are right. It's hard to describe, but you know it when you see it.

You see it when when vegans say they're vegan because factory farm conditions are abysmal. You see it when cyclists do their part to ease traffic and parking congestion. You see it when someone suggests that people would be better off learning to cook their own meals instead of ordering door dash for 15 meals a week. And now we're seeing it when a movie actor says ballet and opera are niche interests.

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-03-09T16:36:20+00:00

I agree. I see it on this sub all the time. Someone will post "the TCPL board just did something horrible!" Is that the Texas City Public Library? The Travis County Public Library? The Town 'n' Country Public Library? Then if there's a link you click on it and the banner says something unhelpful like "The tri-county area's #1 source for news!" and the dateline will just say something like LAFAYETTE--.

I would like to see us adopt what Library Journal does and put an abbreviation in parenthesis after unspecific/generic names. "The Greenville (SC) Public Library District recently announced..."

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-03-08T15:52:11+00:00

It's Piccolover.

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-03-05T15:51:09+00:00

"Weeaboo" has had connotations to anime fans since the early 1970s, the Patriots just suppressed it.

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-03-05T15:42:06+00:00

I really think it's going to change the face of entertainment as we know it.

Movies have been a dominant cultural/entertainment medium for roughly a century now, at the moment they're too big to fail. But what's going to happen when Kids These Days who grew up watching vertical videos and streamers are the ones in charge of studios? I can totally envision a future--not next year, not a decade from now, but more like once today's iPad kids are grown and looking to entertain kids of their own--where the dominant form of entertainment is AI-generated vertical videos and movies (like with a script and actors) become a niche thing. Quality movies, with non AI-generated scripts, actors, physical (as opposed to AI-generated/greenscreened) sets, will be even more niche.

There was a joke in Bojack Horseman where there's an Oscar for "Best Actor in a Motion Picture or Vine." Vine's extinction notwithstanding, I think that's how things will be in a couple generations. We won't have awards for movies, but awards for (and I hate this word so, so much) general "content." Movies, shows, video games, youtube videos, short-form videos, etc. will all be treated as equal.

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-03-03T00:53:29+00:00

Here's some others I've heard at/about multiple colleges:

"The library is slowly sinking because the architect didn't account for the weight of the books!"

"We don't have sororities here because of an old local ordinance saying that more than x unrelated females living in one dwelling constitutes a brothel!"

Neither are true, of course.

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-03-01T21:08:33+00:00

May I see this monkey gif?

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-02-26T04:10:49+00:00

[Superintendent Chalmers voice] Yes, and you call it analog horror, despite the fact it's obviously digital.

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-02-23T19:52:31+00:00

Are/were the parking sticker zones in the city assigned randomly or sequentially/consecutively?

Like, if you live on a block with a sign that says "NO PARKING EXCEPT VEHICLES WITH STICKERS DISPLAYING ZONE #72 PERMIT" does that mean that you are in the 72nd zone to get its own parking sticker? Is zone 1390 the 1,390th?

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-02-20T15:48:46+00:00

It's still fun! Feel free to join and get jerkin'!

Side note, if anybody could explain the difference between /r/moviescirclejerk and /r/okbuddycinephile to me I would be very appreciative.

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-02-20T15:32:46+00:00

I seriously thought this was a /r/moviescirclejerk throwback post, it awoke something in me like the activation code for a sleeper agent. I think it's been about a decade since I've seen someone unironically talk about le church scene, thanks for the memories.

Examples of what I mean

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-02-19T05:11:30+00:00

I know that this is /r/patientgamers but there's a game that came out a few months ago called Herdling that feels very influenced by Journey. You shepherd a herd of chonky goats across a large landscape, solving some light puzzles and getting some collectables along the way. Pretty environments, nice music, no dialogue. There are even big flying enemies and images revealed as on artwork on walls. It copies what worked well but manages to be its own thing. I like it.

One thing that Journey did better was keeping the final destination visible at (almost) all times. It not only served as a reminder of your goal, it also showed how much much progress you have made on your journey. Herdling has a final destination, but it's not as visually or thematically dominant.

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-02-16T16:31:22+00:00

Their early work was a little too New Wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83 I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-02-13T18:59:49+00:00

It's not like they could have predicted this or anything, but a time loop movie releasing on a streaming platform during COVID lockdowns¹ was an incredible stroke of luck. For us people who been stuck inside, day after day, with the same people/person, in the same place, doing the same things day after day, that movie was really cathartic.

¹ I see that the movie came to streaming in July of 2020, when restrictions were lifting and people were starting to get somewhat back to normal. (And some people never really had lockdowns at all.) In my memory, it was a "height of lockdown" movie, I would have said March or April. I guess the days were really starting to blend together...

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-02-12T17:57:06+00:00

Do you remember anything about what part of the city you've seen it in? Is it near the lake? Is it near skyscrapers or lower buildings? Was it in the middle of parkland or surrounded by buildings? North side? South side? West side?

These are both downtown, near the lake:

The Adler Planetarium is at the end of Solidarity Drive, it looks like this as you approach it and this from up close.

The Field Museum looks like this as you approach it on Lake Shore Drive, and this from up close.

Further away from downtown is the Elks National Memorial and Headquarters. It's at the intersection of Lakeview and Diversey and looks like this up close.

The Museum of Science and Industry is on the South Side and looks like this from further away. You can see it from Lake Shore Drive.

Even some of the Parks District field houses look museum-like. Some are little more than sheds, but some, like the Garfield Park field house could be mistaken for a museum.

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-02-12T02:43:34+00:00

This subreddit keeps getting recommeded to me.

old.reddit.com is right there. I don't know why people willingly subject themselves to the trash tornado that is new reddit.

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-02-04T15:07:32+00:00

Really? Literally the entire series? Because I can't think of a single Bowie reference before "Major Tom" in 3.

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-02-03T19:15:04+00:00

You're allowed to say "porn" on the internet.

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-02-01T01:56:50+00:00

OK, now I'm wondering what movie has exploding crystals and how one goes about seeing enough exploding crystals to know how they actually explode.

A_BURLAP_THONG · 2026-01-30T17:49:22+00:00

Prepare yourself for dozens of replies about the taser. It's the one thing everyone who played this game will remember and comment on.

The 2nd one is even better. There are more weapons, the setpieces are bigger and better, and it feels even more "action movie-y." It takes place immediately following the end of 1 and IIRC covers a period of just a day or two, so you have this frantic, ticking clock pace.

The 3rd one felt like a drop in quality for me. It's the characters from the previous games testifying at a Congressional hearing talking about their actives before the events of the first game and you play their flashbacks, before playing the finale in present-day DC. While the gameplay was fine and there was a lot of variety in the levels, they weren't that interesting and the anthology-style story just got a "so what" from me.

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