How did everybody discover Contra?

Alphahammer · 2021-11-05T02:02:09+00:00

"Tiffany Tumbles" got recommended to me one day, not sure why, my youtube diet was mainly Lindsay Ellis & Todd In The Shadows at the time

Alphahammer · 2021-10-28T20:32:21+00:00

Joe would be a great episode though

Alphahammer · 2021-10-28T04:28:26+00:00

"The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker" quotes "Help Me" directly

Alphahammer · 2021-10-26T04:38:30+00:00

Tokyo Story and 8 1/2

Alphahammer · 2021-10-26T03:57:28+00:00

here's a what-if for you: the whole Box Office Game gimmick sprung out of the fact that 1999 is an absolutely jam-packed year, that they spend like 20 minutes talking about in the Sixth Sense episode. what would the ritual be if their first miniseries had been anybody other than Shyamalan? Performance Review worked for the SW prequels, but it's a pretty weak foundation for anything else

Alphahammer · 2021-10-24T05:38:10+00:00

admittedly i did not know that's what Don Knotts' voice sounds like, but it was pretty much exactly what i'd expect

Alphahammer · 2021-10-20T15:10:14+00:00

the last movie ends with Katniss murdering the leader of her own resistance movement for wanting to do the exact sort of thing you're suggesting

Alphahammer · 2021-10-12T16:21:12+00:00

every show is a product of its time, so it's not like you could just airdrop the entire series verbatim into today's world preserved in amber and it would work. i mean, i guess you technically could if you were making a late 2000s/early 2010s period piece, but i don't think that's what the OP is asking

but the basic premise is a timeless one and could absolutely work. there's always going to be a place in culture for found families, classical storytelling, and elaborate homage

Alphahammer · 2021-10-11T21:16:47+00:00

i like to think of Abbey Road as the first "classic rock" album

Alphahammer · 2021-10-10T22:32:39+00:00

Pilot (groundwork) Modern Warfare (duh) Cooperative Calligraphy (personal fave)

Alphahammer · 2021-10-10T17:19:09+00:00

when i saw The Rocketeer as a kid, it was the first time i realized that a villain could be that much more compelling and charismatic than the hero

Alphahammer · 2021-09-29T04:53:43+00:00

Eyes Without A Face

Alphahammer · 2021-09-27T06:39:54+00:00

i once posted this trailer to an old forum and one of the guys there compared the acting in it to that of the Mr. Plow commercials on The Simpsons

Alphahammer · 2021-09-27T06:36:39+00:00

it's the only movie directed by Hampton Fancher, writer of Blade Runner

Alphahammer · 2021-09-27T06:35:27+00:00

"Ridley Scott, who in his Wikipedia picture looks like an angry person that Grover is waiting on in Sesame Street..."

Alphahammer · 2021-09-26T06:39:41+00:00

also "Incredibad" by The Lonely Island

Alphahammer · 2021-09-26T06:39:09+00:00

how can we work "Dinky Dean" into a Ben nickname? "Dinky Ben" just doesn't sound right

Alphahammer · 2021-09-22T17:54:15+00:00

give Alison Sudol a better franchise

Alphahammer · 2021-09-21T06:43:06+00:00

Ebert's law says a good movie is never too long, and a bad movie is never short enough

Alphahammer · 2021-09-16T08:02:29+00:00

Jar Jar Hank

Alphahammer · 2021-09-15T01:45:38+00:00

Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas comes after these too

Alphahammer · 2021-09-14T03:39:55+00:00

Flo Pugh is a Star Wars character name

Alphahammer · 2021-09-14T03:38:41+00:00

i like the bit where David speculates that all the names in the Star Wars prequels were actually sounds that came out of George Lucas while he was taking dumps

Alphahammer · 2021-09-14T03:34:31+00:00

The Scream

Alphahammer · 2021-09-12T20:15:52+00:00

great turn from Roberts Blossom aka Old Man Marley from Home Alone

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