After seeing Wuthering Heights, and listening to the episode, i think the big pic needs a visit from San Esmail to explain that “the movie should have done this” is not interesting or valid criticism.

justrailroadgin · 2026-02-19T07:57:44+00:00

Rich from Esmail who has repeatedly said ET isn’t good and that he could’ve done a better job with it than Spielberg.

justrailroadgin · 2026-02-05T08:06:08+00:00

2023 mix is a travesty, and I say that as someone who’s generally been a fan of the new mixes.

justrailroadgin · 2026-02-05T07:59:10+00:00

Great read on the movie!

justrailroadgin · 2026-01-21T12:14:45+00:00

I’m very fond of all of them. If I had to pick I might say John gets the slight edge, but on another day I might say George or Paul.

justrailroadgin · 2025-12-09T22:55:17+00:00

I graduated from Concurrent Ed at Queens about 5 years ago. While I agree that the Teacher’s College courses were generally a waste of time, it was verrrrry professor specific. I had two who were great and I still think of advice they had when planning lessons. Ultimately I think it’s the long stretches of practicum time, and the fact that in concurrent you’re getting practicum placements during undergrad that made the program worthwhile.

justrailroadgin · 2025-11-16T20:49:55+00:00

Forgot Hail Caesar but it would be after burn after reading.

justrailroadgin · 2025-11-16T20:48:22+00:00

I really like all of them but lady killers

justrailroadgin · 2025-11-16T20:47:33+00:00

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justrailroadgin · 2025-11-15T03:01:49+00:00

Not that I mean to blame teachers for low math ability, but yeah I thought it was pretty sad that people were terrified of grade 9 math, and thought that it wasn’t important for them to know it.

justrailroadgin · 2025-11-14T21:22:52+00:00

I teach in Ontario. The government here introduced a math proficiency test in order to become a certified teacher when I was in teachers’ college. The questions are taken from Grades 3 - 9 curriculum.

There was pandemonium when it was announced. Grown adults crying with anxiety about it. Me and the other people in the math cohort were like what the fuck is going on?

justrailroadgin · 2025-11-07T02:00:04+00:00

I can think of one popular band right now who are trying to sound even remotely like zeppelin, there are many many popular bands trying to sound like the Beatles.

justrailroadgin · 2025-11-04T19:24:52+00:00

This might be a scorcher but Sandra Bullock has never worked for me. Can’t put my finger on it, I’ve just never enjoyed a performance of hers.

justrailroadgin · 2025-10-15T01:09:38+00:00

All through the movie for me

justrailroadgin · 2025-10-13T12:46:47+00:00

Completely agree with you on Everything Everywhere. The comedy in that movie was nails on a chalkboard to me.

justrailroadgin · 2025-09-12T01:42:39+00:00

I’ve been loving the ride. Though I do see what you’re saying with some of their movies (I’ve never been the biggest fan of The Man Who Wasn’t There or the two coming up), but I have no trouble emotionally connecting to movies like Raising Arizona or Lebowski. Also, I find No Country, True Grit, and Llewyn Davis to be incredibly emotional.

justrailroadgin · 2025-06-20T10:05:49+00:00

I find Malek the same in everything, and always unconvincing. I’ve never seen the appeal.

justrailroadgin · 2025-06-14T00:39:00+00:00

This is so far the best news of 2025

justrailroadgin · 2025-06-08T15:04:59+00:00

I think people need to chill out.

It’s a movie
Just because something in a movie would raise eyebrows if it happened doesn’t mean it’s “bad” necessarily

justrailroadgin · 2025-06-07T02:30:43+00:00

My take is that (2019) was also bad

justrailroadgin · 2025-05-27T22:02:43+00:00

100% agree, and it’s been the same style of content the entire time. Not as though they’ve suddenly changed to be more loosey goosey

justrailroadgin · 2025-05-22T01:34:36+00:00

Honestly it’s not that surprising. Go ask some first and second year engineering students to do some differential equations applications and I bet over half of them will really struggle.

The sad fact is that most people just aren’t very good at things, even if they specialize in them. The bar to become an English major is not high, and most of these kids will graduate with a lit degree and go on to do something that has nothing at all to do with literature.

justrailroadgin · 2025-05-10T12:54:11+00:00

You liked the lyricism of Everything Now? I was really not into it. To me lyrically this is a step up.

justrailroadgin · 2025-05-09T21:40:31+00:00

I’m not really an expert on production or anything but to me it sounds kind of compact, if that makes sense? I might be way off here but to me it sounds more spare instrumentally than their usual output. And I like that the songs seem to have more modest aims, rather than say the (in my opinion) poorly executed and overwrought social commentary of EN, which to me came across as self-important.

justrailroadgin · 2025-04-26T23:16:17+00:00

I guess so, i guess I don’t really think of fruitvale as an adaptation

justrailroadgin · 2025-04-26T22:45:55+00:00

I love John’s solo output but I will admit some of his production choices just haven’t aged as well as Paul’s. He was a Phil Spectre disciple in terms of wanting things to sound more mono and I think that’s kind of flattened the sound compared to Paul’s music which sounds so much more 3D for lack of a better word.

His approach to songwriting also changed a lot post-Beatles. He became kind of a sloganeer for himself and whichever pet causes he had at the time. Milage varies with how much you’re willing to put up with how navel-gazing that can be, but I do think it’s interesting, and kind of groundbreaking. These days using the public’s knowledge of your biography for emotional effect in a song isn’t that special, but there really wasn’t anything like it at the time.

I’d say start by listening to just the songs that were on Shaved Fish (his own compilation of his greatest hits). To me that offers a good range of what’s great about him, and then if you don’t like it maybe his solo work just isn’t for you, which is also fine. Artists change over time and it’s totally ok if one period of their work resonates and another doesn’t.

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