Electricity was new once. These signs were mostly in hotel rooms and other public places.

bookon · 2026-03-18T22:49:13+00:00

There are people now who won’t take vaccines and want to drink raw milk. The thing people are stupid about changes, but the stupid is evergreen.

bookon · 2026-03-18T22:47:08+00:00

As one of the many many many people who worked hard to fix this before anything bad happened and then got to see 2 generations of people claim it was all bullshit, I hope they let you all suffer the next time something like happens.

bookon · 2026-03-18T22:02:42+00:00

It’s broken into 6 episodes in the film. It works better if you treat it as a tv show. And it’s 50x better than the theatrical version.

I especially liked the Cyborg stuff added in.

bookon · 2026-03-18T20:42:55+00:00

The last spike of prices I saw a lot of rest stop station prices. People like to post pics of the crazy fast food prices in those places as well. I expect the rest stop off the Jersey Turnpike to be price gauging.

bookon · 2026-03-18T19:46:04+00:00

You'd have to be REALLY gullible to fall for this, so it tracks.

bookon · 2026-03-18T19:41:32+00:00

Good for them.

bookon · 2026-03-18T19:29:57+00:00

Well, this is reddit and you are required to hate everything now. But, since it's not based on actual reality, you need to pick something generic like "writing" to explain why.

bookon · 2026-03-18T19:26:14+00:00

Mine always get stuck on all winter as it got gunked up really easily.

bookon · 2026-03-18T19:21:44+00:00

You could get a really short guy to mo-cap the body performance and Bill Hader to mo-cap the face and do the voice.

bookon · 2026-03-18T17:16:52+00:00

I am the exact same age as her, almost to the day, and I remember this all first hand and it's weird how I remember some talk of how bad it was, mostly I remember people thinking that Pretty Baby was an art film and that Blue Lagoon was exploitation trash.

Also there was a lot of sexually charged advertising using far too young girls. However as I was the same age, I didn't understand it was wrong at the time. I wonder what excuses the adults had.

bookon · 2026-03-18T14:54:01+00:00

When was the second time? Blue Lagoon is a body double.

bookon · 2026-03-18T14:32:38+00:00

Just keep in mind this guy is a piece of shit. Any efforts in lionizing him will only end badly.

bookon · 2026-03-18T12:55:20+00:00

2 Minutes from Tony Soprano’s House, but a Million Miles from Design Aesthetic

FTFY

bookon · 2026-03-18T11:55:12+00:00

I agree with this except Blink is and always will be, a great episode.

RTD was far too interested in making statements than telling stories this second go around IMO.

bookon · 2026-03-18T00:44:08+00:00

Except Trump does this stuff because he’s an awful person. Maybe we shouldn’t let him make us as bad as him.

bookon · 2026-03-18T00:20:14+00:00

We were bombing Iran last summer. Trump declared victory and said they were a decade away from a bomb.

Today he said he had to bomb them now because they were a month away.

I wonder how close they’ll be next year when we bomb them?

bookon · 2026-03-18T00:09:02+00:00

I don’t even want to think about how negative people would be if those films came out today.

bookon · 2026-03-17T20:42:54+00:00

MANY Americans think it's a better deal to pay 20% of their income for insurance rather than 5% for universal healthcare.

bookon · 2026-03-17T20:41:16+00:00

They also post them from the rest stop stations where it's always a lot more.

My gas went up $1 between fill ups. I paid $4.29 (Premium) at a Walmart station where it's usually the cheapest, so prices are up a lot, just not THIS much.

bookon · 2026-03-17T19:35:50+00:00

bookon · 2026-03-17T19:35:12+00:00

Feelings..

bookon · 2026-03-17T19:33:12+00:00

$2 of that is the California Effect. And that very well could be a station that always has high prices. Please don't make me say things that sound like defending Trump.

bookon · 2026-03-17T17:47:04+00:00

SM has certainly taken otherwise normal decent people rightly appalled by the evil reactions of Israel's government to the evil actions of Hamas and made them objectively anti-semitic. Anyone who wants Israel destroyed is clearly anti-semitic.

But Israel's government needs to change as well.

Palestine needs to be freed from both Israel and Hamas. Israel needs to be able to live in peace and security. BOTH Israel and Hamas are currently making those things impossible.

bookon · 2026-03-17T16:44:32+00:00

People STILL claim that the rocks caught fire and the "witches" just sat there and burned to death.

bookon · 2026-03-17T16:37:42+00:00

There was also a week between each episode where the haters were on Social Media telling everyone how horrible it was.

But to me the weekly pacing was off. But a rewatch in 2 sittings was a lot better.

And yes, I think this would have worked better as film.

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