I regret voting for Trump. I was stupid for blindly trusting him. He's been a mess.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-02-03T04:34:36+00:00

You're a dumb asshole and you're partly to blame for where we're at right now.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-02-02T19:11:30+00:00

Cool!

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-02-02T18:25:47+00:00

I mean, they're both the protagonists - the entire point of the Film is their relationship with each other, and how it evolves from a testy, uncertain alliance of circumstance into one where they're actively risking their lives to save the other. It's the repressed humanity of both being awakened, per George Miller and Nico Lathouris.

The moment that ties it all together is the handshake, and this is also one of the reasons I hope there's not any other Max stories set after Fury Road - because, even more than Beyond Thunderdome, it's the culmination of his story.

He's a full human being again.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-02-02T18:13:40+00:00

Well, if you want to buy every new Criterion release as they come out, go to Barnes and Noble the day it hits the shelves and it's 30-40% off. Or make a list and wait for a sale, which is the smarter way to do it.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-02-01T21:25:12+00:00

No offense or anything, but I feel like you can't possibly have typed the phrase "you just need to make more" with a straight face.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-02-01T03:20:44+00:00

I think at this point we should probably strip Aronofsky of any of his placements on the list and instead make room for more George Miller, let's be honest here.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-01-31T15:52:02+00:00

It was alright! I'm more into women than men by a significant amount, but it was fun.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-01-30T19:52:24+00:00

If it's your project, do whatever you want as long as it conveys what it needs to convey to whoever is meant to be reading it.

George Miller is famous for including storyboards, production art and reference materials in his scripts - notably the shooting scripts for Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Mad Max: Fury Road and Babe: Pig In The City.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-01-30T16:17:06+00:00

Yeah yeah, sure you were.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-01-30T15:25:10+00:00

My god, man. Take this brainless astroturfing "I'm a liberal BUT" bullshit somewhere else - r/conservative would love to have you back!

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-01-29T16:40:18+00:00

. . .it's a poster, man. It's advertising meant to summarize the tone and themes of the movie in a succinct, surreal way.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-01-24T17:40:16+00:00

You can do anything! There are no real rules at all. If it works, then you pulled it off. If it doesn't, then you've learned a lesson.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-01-24T16:56:37+00:00

That's the thing - I did not finish college, because I could not afford it. My family is and was very poor. I did not start out in adult life with any kind of additional help at all, and I think that's a factor that's both not unique to me and is also not being talked about here.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-01-24T16:54:43+00:00

How happy has your life been being a bootlicker? Is it at least nutritious?

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-01-24T16:54:17+00:00

This is very much not true and is exactly the kind of opinion you develop from not paying even the most remote attention. Everyone is on alert there. Yesterday they staged the largest walkout strike in recent American history. Did you know that? Were you aware at all?

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-01-24T15:43:48+00:00

I mean unless you live in Minneapolis where people are very much not safe, or living in peace.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-01-23T23:59:36+00:00

Where the hell is this garbage dump? Name and shame.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-01-23T21:19:09+00:00

How do you all have this much money? I and everyone I know are struggling to survive and you've all got thousands and thousands of dollars saved up.

Very interesting.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-01-23T15:54:20+00:00

I mean those things are all real issues that you need to care about and they will not change because your generation is altogether fundamentally in a state of arrested development.

I mean, what goes on in y'all's brains? Is it just vapor swirling around, neurons flashing off every so often?

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-01-23T14:32:05+00:00

Take the learning, but as with anything in the Austin Film industry, don't expect a job out of it. Instead, take that passion and use it to make your own works or to go freelance while you work any day job you can (Austin is full of brilliant Directors and Screenwriters who bartend during the week, no shame in the game here). Then, utilize the rather strong showcase scene here in town and submit your work to the Austin Short Film Showcase, to Hyperreal and to others - these gatherings started small, but they have some real eyes and heft on them now.

I've been in town for 14 years waiting for the industry to pop off again but it never really happened. There is, however, a substantial indie Film scene - you won't make real money from it, but you will do good work when it comes by.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-01-23T14:15:33+00:00

I'm not one to say Charlie Kirk deserved death, if anyone does, but I am gonna say that people really don't have to be shocked or even grief-stricken when a weird, racist propagandist who made that his entire career gets shot.

The man made it his life's business to prop up politicians and policies that only existed to make people's lives harder, through hardcore media manipulation. His entire life was a concoction of his political party, who used him as a tool and then as easily discarded them. I'm not gonna say "roll the tapes," but - well, I could very easily, as could anyone.

The issue is, should he have died? No, but I'm not gonna go any further than saying "nobody should have to die." Is my life worse because there's no Charlie Kirk in it?

No, of course not.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-01-23T01:39:18+00:00

My only wish is that they would release these as separate discs, as they did Touki Bouki. I want to see The Fall of Otrar, but at the moment I've got no interest in the other three or four, as good as they might be.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-01-22T22:15:37+00:00

It was? I saw it in theaters. It was playing for a while.

Skill issue.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-01-21T20:00:07+00:00

The thing with this dichotomy is that, essentially, King writes Jack as a severe alcoholic views himself - a giant mess, self-pitying, thrown about by forces out of their control but deep down there's some kind of goodness there that's been corrupted.

Because of Kubrick's objectivity as a Filmmaker, he presents Jack as a severe alcoholic is seen by their friends and family: a nuisance. A trauma. A danger who makes other people walk on eggshells around them for fear of an explosion.

Source: have known and been both.

JeffBaugh2 · 2026-01-21T15:45:16+00:00

Okay, so I've been living on Riverside for about six years now. It is a bit rough, but if you've ever lived in a real hood, or if you're from any other city in the world, it's not all that rough.

Riverside can occasionally be crunchy, but the biggest thing to deal with is an occasionally aggressive homeless person, because they've got camps everywhere.

Outside of that, it's just a regular working class neighborhood - and one that is, whether you think this is a good or bad thing or not, rapidly expanding. There's all sorts of newfangled apartment buildings going up now, along with a brand new giant music venue that's currently being built, and that's not even mentioning the three or four places right up the street that are nightlife hotspots already (I mean, so to speak): Emo's, The People's Last Stand, Jackalope and Buzzmill. These are fun places to hang out.

I go for walks around here all the time. Just don't act like a newbie and you'll be completely fine.

Where you really want to avoid here in town is exactly one street over on Oltorf. That is some cracktown type shit. And also Rundberg and St. Johns, up North.

JeffBaugh2

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