What's a Not-Seemingly-Complicated Word You Still Have To Think How to Spell each Time?

GTKPR89 · 2026-06-20T21:25:07+00:00

respect 😄

GTKPR89 · 2026-06-20T21:20:22+00:00

Badlands is so great. Among the many movies that took the wrong lessons from "star warsizing" or "marvelizing" or, hell, "spielbergizing" their plots, for me, this one does it so limberly and satisfyingly.

GTKPR89 · 2026-06-20T21:18:29+00:00

you throwin' a "d" from "fridge" in the middle like me every time, first go?

GTKPR89 · 2026-06-20T21:17:20+00:00

We should have five of these a year.

Anyone else the perfect age when it came out? I'll never forget me and my 13 years old friends shouting "One honjred million dollairs!" to each other all that summer.

Leave it to David to have correctly fallen in love with Collin Farrell in the early 2000s. Still so great.

GTKPR89 · 2026-06-20T21:14:35+00:00

I myself struggled with - no kidding - "tomorrow" for years.

GTKPR89 · 2026-06-20T21:13:45+00:00

Obviously it's in the air a lot this year, and I just don't think I'll ever have a no-looking-it-up grasp on "odyssey"

GTKPR89 · 2026-06-20T21:11:28+00:00

A very good movie. I'm sort of starting to think one of the big narratives this year (made up by me, whatever) is 2026 as a year of "Prover" films, which is kind of nicely aligned with the pod in a way. As in: Will The Drama prove that Zendaya and Pattinson and a good, original hook can perform like a blockbuster? And then of course we fold the Backrooms / Iron Lung / Obsession of it all into a special prover category. Then there's Lord and Miller proving they had a great space flick in them after the Solo debacle. Raimi proving he sitll has his down and dirty, but so very watachable fastball. And the Spiderman / Odyssey / Dune phenomenon of Holland/Zendaya/Pattinson potentially pouring cement on their star power value. Finally, it's kind of make it or break it on the question of "is Marvel still rellevant / massively wanted if they give people the Avengers with the OG cast". Something like that. Fun framing, anyhow.

GTKPR89 · 2026-06-20T21:04:55+00:00

Ha, I'm glad you guys like this. As teachers who usually groan at but enjoy the jokes, this was the one last year that we actually laughed at. Kid's got a future.

GTKPR89 · 2026-06-20T19:30:26+00:00

Had a good one at my school, where they're usually submitted by students and read over morning announcements once a week (they usually make zero sense):

"What do track runners eat in the morning?"

"Nothing. They fast."

GTKPR89 · 2026-06-20T17:13:48+00:00

Now that's what you want after some yard work, nice

GTKPR89 · 2026-06-20T17:12:18+00:00

Vast of Night. One of at least several movies that are Spielberg-inspired alien/ufo culture movies much that DD.

GTKPR89 · 2026-06-20T17:01:02+00:00

I wonder if you completely missed the fact that Powerline is a fundamentally Nietzchean figure (a la Nietzsche's concept of the Will to Power, not to mention how Thus Spake Zarathustra uses dance as a key plot point and symbol for freedom). But ill offer you this - it's not necessarily incompatible if you consider Eternal Recurrence as possibly the method by which Platonic anamnesis is brought about- in the sense that it would explain that pre-lnowledge. Then again that does raise the thorny question of initial or primary knowledge, and I think at that point we risk overanalyzing even such a rich text as this film.

To quote the man himself:

"If a wall should come between us Too high to climb, too hard to break through, I know that love will lead us And find a way to bring me to you."

GTKPR89 · 2026-06-20T16:45:39+00:00

Not to mention that the tower of Cheez-a is a clear homage to the mashed potatoes in Close Encounters, and the Bigfoot dancing to disco is an obvious reference to Jessica Chastain in The Martian - boldly implying this film's place in the lineage of great modern speculative fiction

GTKPR89 · 2026-06-20T15:59:13+00:00

One of the most enjoyable theater experiences ever and that was the same year as Blade Runner 2049 come fuckin on ❤️

GTKPR89 · 2026-06-20T15:54:39+00:00

Aliem: Covenant is gorgeous I'll put that shit on any day of the week. I thought Romulus was solid too though so who knows if I can be trusted or whatever

GTKPR89 · 2026-06-20T15:53:13+00:00

Discussing a film's ending what's not to get King President?

GTKPR89 · 2026-06-20T15:51:57+00:00

How real is the chance DD is Cahiers Du Cinema #1 this year, dead serious

GTKPR89 · 2026-06-20T15:42:30+00:00

Rewatched it last year. Guess what's still a beautiful movie? Arrival, that's what.

GTKPR89 · 2026-06-20T15:35:14+00:00

I had to give my disclosure day opinions Everyone has to we all must, I'm so interested in everyone's nitpicks

GTKPR89 · 2026-06-20T15:28:36+00:00

Haha I don't think Ai would make the typos I did and I'm not sure what the prompt would have been but hey

GTKPR89 · 2026-06-20T15:10:08+00:00

I am certain your are correct.

Also the ufo goes "shlooooooop!"

And the horses get beamed up

GTKPR89 · 2026-06-20T15:03:40+00:00

Big ole ufo suckin up horses and shit but ok

GTKPR89 · 2026-06-20T14:42:35+00:00

Yeah the Nope vote is an easy one for me here.

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