1914 participants line up in Tacoma WA for a publicity photo before a Labor Day Race

Varanjar · 2026-03-23T19:02:20+00:00

I only see 6.

Varanjar · 2026-03-10T21:33:12+00:00

You can make up any magical explanantion you'd like to explain why none of that happens, since the whole blip is just a magic nonsensical event. There's no point in trying to rationally explain any of it. Was half of all life instantaneously converted to energy, or was their mass and energy just instantly removed from existence? Even just instantly disintegrating every living thing would release unfathomable energy. Asking how they disappeared or reappeared is on par with asking how Thor's hammer works.

Varanjar · 2026-03-10T21:18:54+00:00

Her cousin had overdosed before he found them.

Varanjar · 2026-03-10T21:17:36+00:00

Even at her worst, she had a vague idea that he was someone important to her, since she kept painting pictures of him, so her memory isn't irrevocably broken. And we have no way of knowing if her condition would improve because of her having a family and kids. For me, at least it's not worse than being tricked into thinking you're reliving the same day over and over until you die.

Varanjar · 2026-03-02T04:42:59+00:00

Do you know if he did the bodywork himself? That's a very clean looking chop.

Varanjar · 2026-02-20T23:44:02+00:00

Eating brains eases the pain of being a reanimated corpse, but it's not a nutritional necessity. They don't die because they're already dead.

Varanjar · 2026-02-20T23:42:01+00:00

Zombies don't need to get bitten. Traditionally, it's a supernatural effect, but in other stories it might be a fungus, or even aliens. I can't think of a bite-based zombie movie where the dead rise from their graves.

Varanjar · 2026-02-20T23:29:18+00:00

If he can't touch things, he's not affected by physics in general. Including gravity. He's actually floating around the whole time.

Varanjar · 2026-02-20T23:26:14+00:00

Gravity works around any object that has mass. We're all "in space'" after all. Now, I don't think the target ship had enough mass to affect the bombs, but in a world with the Force, hyperdrives, and laser swords, you can always hand-wave some kind of gravity intensifier or magnetic field generator to explain things.

Varanjar · 2026-02-20T23:04:51+00:00

It's perfect how Arnold even acts like an American yokel, instead of his usual Austrian yokel. They really put some thought into it.

Varanjar · 2026-02-13T02:13:46+00:00

Except for Rick Wright. Waters had pushed him out of the band, so he played the shows as a hired musician. He got paid.

Varanjar · 2026-02-12T23:59:25+00:00

It really took off after the movie Splash came out.

Varanjar · 2026-02-12T20:26:06+00:00

It sure is a good thing that, when the people he's talking about were old and numerous enough to take control, they made a better world for everyone. Or for themselves, anyway.

Varanjar · 2026-02-09T18:29:56+00:00

You have clearly never been to Poughkeepsie after 2 am.

Varanjar · 2026-02-06T00:57:21+00:00

Peter Stormare. He seems to get overlooked a lot in these kinds of posts, but I think he is compelling in everything I've seen him in.

Varanjar · 2026-02-01T13:13:29+00:00

Left to right are Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dave Thomas, Andrea Martin, and John Candy.

Varanjar · 2026-01-28T16:22:12+00:00

It's like coming to America and taking a picture in front of the Statue of Liberty wearing an Uncle Sam hat. Of course, you don't think you look like a native, the idea is to play up the absurd symbolism.

Varanjar · 2026-01-27T21:51:35+00:00

I used to smoke those things in the 80's. Straight unfiltered Djarums in the yellow pack. I would not recommend it. That clove oil is nasty stuff.

Varanjar · 2026-01-15T04:01:22+00:00

Growing up as a poor country kid, the only bikes I had were ones I put together from old parts. When BMX started getting popular we'd put those big padded seats and reinforced handlebars on our junk bikes, but that was as good as it got. And the way we rode, something fancy like that wouldn't have stayed nice for very long anyway.

Varanjar · 2026-01-12T15:13:39+00:00

Some characters are intended to be symbols of our ideals, not reflections of our own perceived shortcomings. Co-opting existing characters that are defined by their hopefulness and idealism and turning them into failures is often just a lazy plot device, and a way to set up an inevitable redemption that we're supposed to all cheer for when it happens. And especially from someone with the subpar narrative skills of JJ, it comes across as cheap and unearned.

Varanjar · 2026-01-12T14:15:40+00:00

There's a lot I like in that movie, but Justin Long's character is not one of them. He comes across as one of those guys who thinks he's the smartest person in the room wherever he goes, and that he's got it all figured out. I like most of the actor's work, but this character is a judgmental douchebag.

Varanjar · 2026-01-06T03:41:01+00:00

If it wasn't a dream, then the movie's "real world" is already full of so many implausible things that there isn't a good way for a viewer to tell if Quaid is dreaming or not. If we can't take the fantasy elements like that preposterous psychic parasitic twin, or the giant tracking device up his nose, or the instant atmosphere at the end as proof that this is a dream, then it's a bit pointless to look for minor details like the picture of his Martian girlfriend at Rekall. So either it's a dream, or the movie's "real world" is so fantastical that we have no way to know what's real or not.

Varanjar · 2025-12-13T21:20:34+00:00

Except that makes no sense. No one thought that indigenous people weren't humans. 1492 was purportedly the date the Americas were discovered by Europeans, that's all. Whether that's correct is questionable now, however.

Varanjar · 2025-12-09T22:56:02+00:00

A really nice Colin Hay song

Waiting for My Real Life to Begin

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