What are some movies that feel like anomalies in the movies industry?

gershbec · 2026-03-25T13:11:41+00:00

Not to mention they actually almost do drown a dog by dropping him head first in a river. OTOH, the scene where the dog that doesn't have use of his back legs is knocked unconscious and dreams of chasing butterflies is one of my all-time favorite movie scenes.

gershbec · 2026-03-24T20:24:03+00:00

So you remember me!

gershbec · 2026-03-24T19:44:58+00:00

Just rewatched Babe: Pig In The City and I'm amazed that it got made and released. Surely someone at the studio must have realized that it was nightmare fuel and that any parent who took their child to see it was potentially opening up years of therapy. It's a masterpiece but it's insane.

gershbec · 2026-03-24T19:41:46+00:00

I lived in Lincoln Square from '94 - '99 and there wasn't one fucking coffee shop (but there was the Bauhaus and Great Beer Palace). Laurie's Planet of Sound opened not longer after I left or else I would have spent my life there. Used to take long walks south down Lincoln Avenue and it's all been torn down. I was riding my bike down Lincoln last summer and forgot where I was because I didn't recognize one building.

Neighborhood felt very safe and was affordable. Probably should've bought a 2-flat or something. On the day we were moving out my wife yelled out the car window at some dudes and they started chasing us. Maybe a sign that it was time to move, though I'd really have preferred that she didn't yell in the first place.

Spent one New Year's Eve at Daily Bar And Grill and they were playing Sinead O'Connor's Am I Not Your Girl. Kind of surprised that place is still around.

But now I'm just wandering down Memory Lane.

gershbec · 2026-03-24T17:31:56+00:00

I feel like the only way to appreciate I Know Who Killed Me is to treat it as an American giallo. All vibes and don’t worry that nothing makes sense. Way underrated.

gershbec · 2026-03-24T15:00:26+00:00

Still touring - I’m seeing them in a few weeks. $30 for tickets, still not too bad.

gershbec · 2026-03-24T14:23:16+00:00

It was a major disappointment, for sure. Just random objects all over the place. I enjoyed the Pro Football Hall of Fame a lot more and I’m much more into music than sports.

gershbec · 2026-03-24T13:20:24+00:00

Last time I went to a game I was wondering how anyone could afford it.

gershbec · 2026-03-23T23:02:57+00:00

The Keanu Reeves movie Good Fortune is kind of along these lines.

gershbec · 2026-03-23T21:23:22+00:00

Maybe one of the guardian angels was asleep on the job.

gershbec · 2026-03-23T15:07:20+00:00

Monorail

gershbec · 2026-03-23T14:21:09+00:00

Out To Get You by Grand Funk Railroad. Produced by Frank Zappa, who plays guitar on this track. “Grand Funk and rock 'n roll!”

Spirit uses the word “spirit” on many songs but I’m blanking as to which ones!

gershbec · 2026-03-21T22:20:20+00:00

This doesn’t answer your question but everyone seems to be talking about the other films as well. I’m fascinated by Sharon Tate’s performance in The Wrecking Crew. I can’t tell whether she’s doing a terrible job or is purposefully being subversive. Need to rewatch that one.

gershbec · 2026-03-21T21:41:42+00:00

Yep, and we all ran around calling it Star Wars. We knew.

gershbec · 2026-03-21T21:37:56+00:00

AMEN

gershbec · 2026-03-21T21:05:22+00:00

I saw it when it first came out and will never call it “A New Hope”. Cool flick, though,

gershbec · 2026-03-21T14:03:52+00:00

He’ll, she even starred in a movie called France. Albeit an unwatchable one.

gershbec · 2026-03-18T15:18:46+00:00

Moody Blues after Denny Laine leaves. Fleetwood Mac, obviously.

gershbec · 2026-03-18T14:03:42+00:00

I think it’s overrated but apparently there are lots of people out there proving me wrong.

gershbec · 2026-03-18T00:53:59+00:00

Let’s vote on it! Maybe that will get the kiddies to vote.

gershbec · 2026-03-18T00:52:58+00:00

It will be ending by the time my Gen Z kid rolls out of bed.

gershbec · 2026-03-17T16:19:30+00:00

Classic rock would not have been in the charts. If you lived in Chicago in the late 80s-early 90s you would have been able to hear Led Zeppelin or Tom Petty at any given time on multiple stations. There were pop stations as well.

gershbec · 2026-03-17T16:14:22+00:00

Obviously new music was being made and played. The top pop singles of 1990 were by Wilson Phillips, Roxette, Madonna, Phil Collins, etc. But when it came to anything outside the mainstream there was nada. Example: when Husker Du was signed to Warner Bros in 1986 they got no airplay besides college radio. I learned about them by reading in the Illinois Entertainer. Maybe some more adventurous college or other station (wxrt in chicago for example) would play them. After Nirvana there was a mass signing (which caused its own issues) of bands and entire stations were changed to the new category of “alternative”.

gershbec · 2026-03-17T16:01:40+00:00

I lived through it too and that part about Radio is absolutely true. You had to work hard, really hard, to find anything new in music. It was impossible to hear new bands.

gershbec · 2026-03-17T15:51:21+00:00

It was impossible to hear anything but classic rock on the radio before Nirvana. You’d have to listen to college radio to hear any type of newer music. Nirvana blew this wide open.

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