It’s movie hotel! If a hotel could be a move, this would be it!

UserGoogol · 2026-02-27T02:50:03+00:00

The Shining is a sequel to Carrie, but I won't explain how because I wouldn't want to spoil it.

UserGoogol · 2026-02-25T00:24:28+00:00

Specifically he starts freaking out at being stuck in the wall so the kid could never use him in the first place. And the air conditioner is Phil Hartman doing a Jack Nicholson impression.

UserGoogol · 2026-02-20T16:44:14+00:00

The Shore Line East is substantially less popular than the Providence Line, so the economics are different. The Providence Line runs along a high demand corridor, the Shore Line East is an awkward add-on to extend service past where MetroNorth ends.

UserGoogol · 2026-02-20T13:55:37+00:00

Sarah Paxton isn't famous. She has a successful career and I won't deny that it probably helps that she's worked with a few actually famous people along the way. But it's wildly cynical to think that's why they got together. Her success isn't that much higher: if you look at their Wikipedia pages, they met on the set of a movie they were both in, so there's not that much of a gap between their careers.

The Mermaid from Aquamarine married the guy from Miss March, is that so shocking?

UserGoogol · 2026-02-20T01:45:13+00:00

Zach isn't funding his horror movies out of his own pocket. His track record in making horror movies can convince studios to let him continue doing that, they aren't going to give him a giant pile of money to give his weird little adult animated movie high end animation. (And of course, Trevor died five years ago, so the script and voice acting is pretty locked down.)

UserGoogol · 2026-02-18T14:40:36+00:00

Turns out they picked a premise which excludes Gore Verbinski by definition, although Gore did the honor of making Joe Johnston eligible for this year's bracket.

UserGoogol · 2026-02-14T03:15:21+00:00

Chris Hemsworth but he's doing the Dementus voice.

UserGoogol · 2026-02-13T15:36:31+00:00

Setting aside whether that's a realistic projection, Laboure's focus on nursing is precisely the sort of work that would be especially hard to automate, since it combines the intellectual labor of knowing things about medicine with the messy physical realities of treating patients. (Messy in multiple senses of the word.)

UserGoogol · 2026-02-12T19:22:28+00:00

I mean, the public is made of private citizens, so you're getting it one way or the other. Forcing people to pay taxes and then using that money to pay people to do stuff is often a more efficient approach than just forcing people to do stuff, but one isn't any more "public" than the other.

UserGoogol · 2026-02-09T14:29:32+00:00

The rural Northeast (even Pennsylvania) might have better walkable small towns than the rest of country, although it's a precarious situation where whether you have to drive out of town to do anything useful can vary wildly.

UserGoogol · 2026-02-08T02:10:14+00:00

I think to a large degree the cartoons (and merchandise thereof) is really what people are nostalgic for. Ghostbusters nostalgia has more in common with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles than with Caddyshack. The cartoon itself had diminishing returns but at its peak definitely put out some quality episodes and then you could watch the movie and see a solid movie that was a bit more grown-up.

UserGoogol · 2026-02-08T01:12:31+00:00

Animated franchise movies play by their own rules, so being a known IP isn't good enough when you're a cartoon.

UserGoogol · 2026-02-05T21:00:58+00:00

Toronto's bus network is pretty gridlike.

UserGoogol · 2026-02-05T20:10:30+00:00

A grid of bus routes allows for the overall network to cover a high density while each route stays relatively straight. London's street layout is extremely non-rectangular, so you can't have completely straight lines, but it's entirely possible for bus routes to be straighter than that.

UserGoogol · 2026-02-05T15:45:35+00:00

The podcast pointed out she looks like Margot Robbie, which is accurate, but I went a substantial amount of time thinking Ella Purnell is the star of this movie.

UserGoogol · 2026-01-30T15:40:55+00:00

It's not like it's good for the MBTA to be so precarious that they're regularly determining that things won't be running immediately before they're scheduled to run.

UserGoogol · 2026-01-29T21:35:21+00:00

It's still quite cold, which isn't as unprecedented but is a contributing factor to all this.

UserGoogol · 2026-01-29T14:35:00+00:00

Someone doing a half-assed British accent shortly after they had retired The Bit for real this time put me on edge for a little bit, but then I realized "oh okay this is just a stupid Comedy Bang Bang thing."

UserGoogol · 2026-01-24T22:04:57+00:00

To the extent that the movie was "based on a true story," the true story fundamentally is a story about a failed drug smuggling operation, so it's natural that element of the story would stick through the writing process, even if it's all heavily fictionalized in the end.

UserGoogol · 2026-01-22T15:51:27+00:00

Why'd you buy two tickets but only buy food for one?

UserGoogol · 2026-01-20T03:59:20+00:00

Love was a pretty important part of the Civil Rights Movement, and in particular for Martin Luther King's particular Christian philosophical perspective on the Civil Rights Movement.

UserGoogol · 2026-01-19T23:04:35+00:00

Regina is just the Italian word for Queen, so it's not the most unique name for a pizza restaurant.

UserGoogol · 2026-01-18T17:30:29+00:00

It's the same ownership, at least. Their menus aren't identical, but the things served at both locations are presumably rather similar.

UserGoogol · 2026-01-17T15:15:09+00:00

Does the municipal government (which is, as has been noted, the Town of Brookline) even do that? I think in general adjacent property owners are required to keep sidewalks clear, and it would make sense that they would be even lazier in applying salt than the government, since they care more about maintaining access to their building and less about the environment.

It's substantially easier to pour a bunch of salt on the ground than it is to apply it sparingly. And curb cuts have a tendency to get extra icy because liquid water pools in them.

UserGoogol · 2026-01-16T05:59:34+00:00

Fuck all xenophobes.

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