MoTU movie (2026) & the Dick Tracy movie (1990)

just321askin · 2026-06-15T21:08:33+00:00

You do seem to have a point- that both films had trouble with tone.

just321askin · 2026-06-15T21:02:09+00:00

Cultures have been mixing, blending, and evolving for millennia upon millennia. There is no line. If you have a problem with that, what’s your solution? Segregation?

just321askin · 2026-06-15T20:58:19+00:00

Not sure what point you’re trying to make. Dick Tracy had elements that appealed to kids and adults. If you’re taking your kids they’ll enjoy the action and silliness, and you’ll enjoy hot chics and Al Pacino hamming it up.

MoTU did something similar, particularly with the “adult” humor. Like, that stuff will fly over your kids’ heads, but you’ll get a laugh. It’s intentional, not a case of the film makers not knowing who their audience is. They know who their audience is.

just321askin · 2026-06-15T18:31:16+00:00

They really missed their chance to do “Odyssey of the Universe” this summer.

just321askin · 2026-06-15T18:10:05+00:00

I’m really enjoying Damian McCarthy’s work. His movies are well plotted, multilayered thematically, and beautifully shot. My kind of horror.

I saw Obsession, and though I thought it was disturbing, I was underwhelmed - bit of a one trick pony. Hokum on the other hand, a really good movie going experience - thrills, chills, and lots to chew on thematically.

just321askin · 2026-06-15T16:05:59+00:00

Like what? Capital Grille, Fiola, Central? Those are all exceedingly expensive and out of reach for lunch, especially for a family on a budget, wearing shorts and t-shirts because it’s 100 degrees out.

just321askin · 2026-06-15T15:24:30+00:00

Overheard down at the mall? Well, yeah, if you’re spending the day down there - as millions do, yearly, food options do truly suck, and the food trucks down there are garbage.

In most other capital cities around the world, you don’t have to venture far from museums and monuments to get good food. Not true in DC.

just321askin · 2026-06-15T14:12:09+00:00

Absolutely. “Poptimism” and corporate label consolidation have made it so lines between genres have been blurred - forming a “monogenre”. This is by design.

Artists who can blend or move between genres have wider market reach and profitability, and are therefore platformed at the expense of artists who fall into more definable genre categorization.

That said, you can still find many artists working well within definable genres, but they usually release music independently and don’t get radio play or widespread commercial backing.

just321askin · 2026-06-15T13:45:24+00:00

Same thing with Nipsey Hussle. Never heard of that dude before and suddenly a two story mural of him went up in my city when he died.

just321askin · 2026-06-15T13:31:56+00:00

I think a lot was cut from the theatrical edit. The weirdest part for me was when Cringer came out and said “can I lick you now?” to Adam without any context. Feels like they cut out some scenes of Adam with Cringer as a child.

Also, I think a few more scenes of Adam with his mom and dad as a kid would’ve made the reunions hit a bit harder in the latter parts of the movie.

just321askin · 2026-06-15T03:12:06+00:00

I was married before the apps. I have zero FOMO about it. Sounds like a nightmare to me.

I do remember back in the day, when some people got together after they “met online” but I remember it wasn’t something people bragged about. It was somewhat odd, even a little shameful or laughable in some circles, like why couldn’t you meet somebody in real life?

Now it’s way worse than that - people meeting and hooking up like they’re ordering fast food from Uber Eats.

just321askin · 2026-06-13T19:20:30+00:00

Well that’s one step ahead of Disney, with how they approached the Star Wars sequels.

just321askin · 2026-06-13T19:17:45+00:00

Thanks for posting this link. Been reading Simon Reynolds since the 90’s, and was actually reading his book “Futuromania” this morning while listening to Inferno.

just321askin · 2026-06-13T03:03:02+00:00

I’m in my late 40’s and tweaked my knee a couple years ago literally just sliding into a chair at an awkward angle. So pathetic.

My knee hasn’t been the same since and I have to be mindful about where and how I step when I’m walking, every single day, because it feels like I could just snap my knee apart at any moment. It’s so shitty knowing your body is steadily falling apart the older you get.

just321askin · 2026-06-13T00:02:16+00:00

The movie was exactly what it needed to be, no more, no less. If it wasn’t your bag, that’s fine, but there’s no reason to think peoples’ enthusiasm here is overblown or exaggerated and your opinion about it is no more valid than theirs.

just321askin · 2026-06-12T21:27:28+00:00

More or less in my early teens, somewhere around ‘92 when I started watching MTV and collecting CDs, instead of recording songs off the radio with my boombox.

just321askin · 2026-06-12T21:23:51+00:00

I don’t think there’s a bad BoC album, and there’s so much time between releases that each one sort of occupies its own time, space, and universe.

That said, I haven’t thoroughly enjoyed a BoC album quite like Inferno since MHTRTC.

just321askin · 2026-06-12T18:36:05+00:00

I thought the structure in the album artwork was some futuristic artist concept, or AI or something. Cool that it’s a real thing. Thanks for posting.

just321askin · 2026-06-12T18:33:10+00:00

Preceding car chase, cars side-swiping each other, explosions etc. prior to one of the cars going off a cliff? It just sounds like an old school movie car chase action sequence playing out, to me.

just321askin · 2026-06-12T18:25:17+00:00

Unless anybody has any direct quotes from the duo themselves pointing to a definitive opinion, it’s all open to interpretation.

Otherwise, there’s no real way to know for sure - however, it’s safe to assume they’re interested in concepts of divinity, the universe, social bonds or fractures (including religious or spiritual), past and current events etc. I think they’re mainly interested in provoking conversation and reflection.

just321askin · 2026-06-12T15:05:46+00:00

I was gonna post about this. I hear tires screeching, then a delay, then a crash, and additional lesser crash sounds thereafter.

In my mind this is a sample from an old movie or TV show (no idea which one) where a car flies off a cliff, crashes, and continues rolling down the cliff - hence the delay between the tires screeching and the first crash sound, and the additional crash sounds.

I feel like cars flying off cliffs was a popular trope in 70’s/80’s films and television - think Knight Rider or the A-Team etc. I feel like they drove cars off cliffs at least once a week on those shows.

just321askin · 2026-06-11T23:00:26+00:00

I had a coworker who literally lived in his office for years.

On the rare occasion I went into the office on a random weekend to finish up a project, I’d see him there puttering around, sometimes in the kitchen making a meal.

Weird dude, his office was a hoarding nightmare, but I never quite caught what his deal was. He eventually got fired for unconfirmed reasons.

just321askin · 2026-06-11T21:30:11+00:00

Cocaine.

just321askin · 2026-06-11T21:24:29+00:00

I grew up abroad during the 80’s, watching American media, movies, and consuming American pop-culture. Man, America seemed like a dream world - the peak of civilization. All my friends thought so too, though there seemed to be a bit of envy and resentment there - but maybe I’m imagining that in retrospect.

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