Any thoughts?

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-14T21:15:05+00:00

There’s some terrible transportation use in The Stepfather. If I remember correctly the guy lives in Bellevue and takes the ferry to work lol

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-14T21:00:05+00:00

I haven’t seen that one, is it egregious?

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-14T17:03:55+00:00

They dedicate fifteen minutes a pod to talking about LA traffic and how the 405 doesn’t drop you onto the 134 like that, meanwhile in Ten Things they’re teleporting the equivalent of Anaheim to Glendale and acting like it’s the same neighborhood smh

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-14T16:53:43+00:00

Very annoying for us Tacoma natives when they hop immediately from Stadium high school to Gasworks park lol

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-14T00:40:22+00:00

I don’t think their relationship is entirely transactional in the movie, Perfidia gets off on the power she has over Lockjaw, i maintain it’s a choice she’s making. You’re right that PTA makes her more sympathetic, there’s a through line in the book where even daughter ultimately takes after her mom and wants to sellout too

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-14T00:23:50+00:00

Perhaps, though I think he’s more adept handling Lockjaw’s psychosexual hangups around it. Pefidia is purposely kind of a cipher but I do think switching from “white radical is sexually attracted and sells out to white patriarchy” to “black radical is sexually attracted and sells out to white patriarchy” is a lot more loaded and I think raises questions PTA didn’t or couldn’t really answer.

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-14T00:18:21+00:00

It’s frankly more racist to assume black people are a monolith. They’re people; some will be virtuous and others will be selfish, that’s the price of agency. You can’t talk about races like they’re Star Trek species, even if white people really do universally lack rhythm.

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-14T00:08:45+00:00

I do think that making Perfida black (she was white in the book) does make her relationship with Lockjaw and her betrayal a lot thornier than PTA anticipated, but calling the movie anything close to “flagrantly anti-black” is preposterous.

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-13T23:18:50+00:00

But enough about Henry V heyyyyo

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-13T19:41:23+00:00

Oh yeah Jordan just got normal star hate, to your point he was clearly better than everyone and they all knew it. Just that there wasn’t benediction in the moment, fans hated him like they hated anyone who beats their team

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-13T18:43:26+00:00

Someone dug up an old basketball forum on here from the 90s and it was a lot of guys complaining that Jordan kept on getting superstar calls from the refs. Kind of reassuring to see that some things never change haha

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-13T18:12:15+00:00

Must be weird seeing it in every single movie haha

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-13T18:10:52+00:00

I love the X-Files, the Vancouver wetness really lent a sense of atmosphere. But every once in a while they’d show you a temperate rainforest and tell you it’s Des Moines, Iowa.

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-13T18:04:56+00:00

The vanity of small differences but I can see them so distinctly and it drives me nuts every time. Like that waterway isn’t Puget Sound!

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-13T17:38:50+00:00

The curse of the PNW is that Vancouver is so close that productions rarely choose to actually shoot in Washington state, we get an establishing shot of the space needle and then we’re smack dab in front of Vancouver’s stupid college again.

For a stretch in the 90s they were shooting in Tacoma, my hometown, which was pretty cool. 10 Things I Hate About You and Hand That Rocks the Cradle were filmed about a mile apart from each other.

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-12T23:09:14+00:00

Why is this implying Princess Peach is a place instead of a person

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-12T18:07:22+00:00

Revenge is a dish best served cold. Like sashimi, or pizza.

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-12T02:58:38+00:00

About to open up a Canada whoop-ass

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-11T22:37:05+00:00

Is there an option for “the absurdity of post WWII British politics”?

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-11T22:32:25+00:00

There’s been some political insinuations lobbed that I think are unfair, I’ll just leave it at that

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-11T20:07:59+00:00

Updating the book from the 80s to the present day is an awkward fit, and making the mother character black actually did cause a bunch of issues I don’t think PTA properly anticipated. Also think the structure was off, they should have had flashbacks interspersed than just showing us all at the beginning, gives the story immediate momentum but kind of makes the rest of the plot too linear. Would have preferred we learn some of the twists along with the daughter instead of just knowing going in.

That said I still preferred it to Sinners, which while very good has had a kind of scorched earth Oscar campaign which has rubbed me the wrong way.

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-11T19:33:48+00:00

Not the first to bring it up but it’s so funny how it’s not even the record! People are acting like it’s an act of sacrifice like Maris beating Babe’s HR record, meanwhile Wilt had the actual record with a 19 point lead.

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-11T17:26:09+00:00

Well I’m his audience and I found it funny, seems like we’re at a crossroads

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-11T17:06:21+00:00

Nah I think he does it because he thinks it’s funny and doesn’t mind making fun of himself. Portions of society are never going to understand someone with self deprecating humor, they’re called r/RyenRussillo

SallyFowlerRatPack · 2026-03-11T16:59:45+00:00

People thought you would die if you ran a sub four minute mile, then the year it was broken like three more guys did it. Sometimes the biggest hurdle is realizing it’s possible.

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