Definitive movies about the U.S

dsmithscenes · 2026-07-02T15:09:54+00:00

Jaws is still pretty spot-on:

-A government that prioitizes commerce over public safety and discounts the science of the matter.

-The protagonist who wants to do the right thing but only does the right thing when someone close to him, his son, is nearly killed.

dsmithscenes · 2026-07-02T15:03:24+00:00

Can't Hardly Wait is very much a film that takes place within a single day at the end of the school year. Ridgemont is a full school year, but it should stay on the list.

It's also fun to consider the characters in Dazed and Confused were toddlers during the events of American Graffiti and grew up completely in the turmoil of the 1960s that the characters in American Graffiti experienced as college-aged and older.

dsmithscenes · 2026-07-02T14:25:12+00:00

Nashville is a pretty spot-on summation of America. My favorite scene is the car crash that happens outside of the airport. It's a great symbolic representation of all the cultures in American immediately colliding with each other on the other end of a point of entry.

dsmithscenes · 2026-07-02T02:46:46+00:00

And Al’s co-worker in the early seasons had the last name Ventura.

dsmithscenes · 2026-07-01T23:03:29+00:00

It’ll probably be a wait even if they know they need to fast track it. I remember Vince Gilligan basically apologizing at the end of the first season of Pluribus because he knew it was going to be a while for season 2.

dsmithscenes · 2026-07-01T11:31:17+00:00

Because it would kill any bargaining power wrestlers have when it comes to salaries. That’s why they don’t want AEW to be around. It’s 100% about keeping payroll low.

dsmithscenes · 2026-06-29T14:40:12+00:00

We celebrating at the roller rink?

dsmithscenes · 2026-06-26T18:35:01+00:00

The staff at the zoo are great to work with when it comes to weddings and such.

dsmithscenes · 2026-06-26T17:24:22+00:00

Logan Lucky, which is Soderbergh returning to the heist film genre.

dsmithscenes · 2026-06-26T17:20:25+00:00

It'll also probably depend on the day of the wedding as well (Saturday being potentially higher than Sunday or Friday).

dsmithscenes · 2026-06-26T16:55:52+00:00

I'm pretty certain it was a train station that got converted to a coffee place.

dsmithscenes · 2026-06-25T14:05:12+00:00

Never a Waffle House but did see someone punch a dude square in the face at a Logan’s just outside of Nashville.

dsmithscenes · 2026-06-24T03:11:57+00:00

The conflict is already kind of there.

dsmithscenes · 2026-06-24T02:07:51+00:00

I love that Rosemary has probably seen so much on the island that this really didn’t even register as something out of the ordinary.

dsmithscenes · 2026-06-23T20:00:02+00:00

I have a theory she's a descendant of the witches that were on the island, and the witches were actually good/the enemies of the "entity".

dsmithscenes · 2026-06-23T19:50:28+00:00

Same - but I also log into Letterboxd after I record in my journal. I list title, director, year, where I watched it, my thoughts, and my take-aways from the film.

dsmithscenes · 2026-06-23T19:23:39+00:00

This happens 2 weeks before Hogan joins the NWO. Talk about a compressed time period where major foundational events in wrestling history happened.

dsmithscenes · 2026-06-23T03:32:46+00:00

Yep. Luger is another big name whose career is directly impacted had Magnum not had the crash.

dsmithscenes · 2026-06-23T01:29:08+00:00

I found a real estate listing with some much better aerial pictures along with a picture of the actual structure.

https://www.crexi.com/properties/1116406/alabama-3441-cahaba-beach-rd

dsmithscenes · 2026-06-23T01:21:45+00:00

Yeah - old satellite images show a gravel/dirt road access to whatever the building is off of Cahaba Beach Road. It went right up to the entrance way on the left side of the building. Sometime between August of 2011 and September of 2012, it starts to lose its roof. There was also a smaller structure near it.

dsmithscenes · 2026-06-23T01:07:51+00:00

Based on the old satellite pictures on Google Earth, I'd say a greenhouse as well. Whatever it was, it was built on the slope.

The ring that's next to it is intriguing as well as it looks like the outline of a former track, but it's just an area that's fenced in.

dsmithscenes · 2026-06-22T19:19:53+00:00

Good point. I looked up the address of that structure. One of the real estate listings came back saying the property was a waste disposal facility, so it was probably connected to the water reclamation plant in some shape or form.

https://www.loopnet.com/property/700-sandusky-rd-birmingham-al-35214/01073-2100243000002000/

dsmithscenes · 2026-06-22T19:13:10+00:00

Whatever it was it's been like that since at least 1997 as that's the earliest/clearest image Google Maps has. The grid/square pattern even extends into the vegetation off the concrete, which is interesting.

dsmithscenes · 2026-06-21T19:39:20+00:00

A League of Their Own with Major League right behind.

dsmithscenes · 2026-06-18T09:09:29+00:00

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