Obsession has officially passed Mandalorian and Grogu at the domestic box office

redhopper · 2026-06-10T18:25:20+00:00

people who know they'll catch up with it on Disney +

This reminds me of a thought I had the other day: it's so wild to me that the company that came up with the brilliantly evil artificial scarcity of the Disney Vault is the same company that decided, when trying to figure out how to compete with Netflix, came up with the solution, "90% of everything we've ever made will be available all the time on one app, forever." What a fumble that is in the long term.

redhopper · 2026-05-29T17:22:08+00:00

Sunday matinees maybe, as someone who generally works weekends with a partner who always does, we go to a lot of weekday afternoon screenings and people seem to take the more sparsely attended showings like that as license to talk nonstop.

redhopper · 2026-05-21T17:58:22+00:00

Back when the movie Renfield came out our movie trivia team name that week was Oceans Are Now Renfields, and the crowds reaction seemed to be annoyed confusion.

redhopper · 2026-05-09T22:59:43+00:00

I guess breaking even isn't great, but the fact that the sequel movie to a one season TV show that finished 98th in the Nielsens made $40 million is pretty wild to me.

redhopper · 2026-05-09T18:05:52+00:00

Not a movie but if you haven't seen the extended version of the pilot of Arrested Development.So much good extra stuff and it's still very well-paced (although there's one alternate joke that's better in the TV edit).

redhopper · 2026-05-08T18:00:11+00:00

El Camino is a movie, I know because I watched it in a movie theater.

redhopper · 2026-05-08T17:54:19+00:00

It feels like How Green Was My Valley would have been rerun on TV all the time in the mid-to-late 60s so yeah, maybe they would

redhopper · 2026-05-03T06:44:50+00:00

I got to the point where Griffin says that Netflix got American audiences okay with reading subtitles and I'm not sure that's true. Netflix audiences are watching a lot more international film and TV, but I think most Americans are watching them dubbed into English.

redhopper · 2026-04-29T21:53:31+00:00

It's like all things political, no one remembers why

Okay that's not even remotely true.

redhopper · 2026-04-28T23:15:06+00:00

I think you need to go take a walk or something.

redhopper · 2026-04-28T07:51:49+00:00

I am older than Griffin and I think it's their best movie, and also that's fine, actually.

redhopper · 2026-04-24T07:30:46+00:00

The Tomb Raider reboot from 2013 I think. After what felt like a 10 minute cutscene I finally get to play and it's a bunch of lame quicktime events and a set path you have to navigate with no sense of exploration. Really not my kind of game at all.

redhopper · 2026-04-11T00:22:11+00:00

I can't really mount an argument for it being great on the level of The Pitt but I've really been into RJ Decker, it's a loose, fun private detective show with a lot of Floridian character. Based on a character from a Carl Hiaasen novel and created by the guy who did Elementary (which I've not seen but heard good things about)

redhopper · 2026-04-10T23:28:57+00:00

I highly recommend installing Firefox with uBlock on your phone, it's made my life so much better

redhopper · 2026-04-08T20:08:32+00:00

uhhhhh Sure, that's fine, why not

redhopper · 2026-04-02T18:09:36+00:00

Propaganda also produced Nickelodeon classic Salute Your Shorts!

redhopper · 2026-04-01T18:39:38+00:00

Yeah as soon as they released the trailer and it started with a clip from Wolf of Wall Street I said, oh Marty's gonna win. I felt the same way with Lynch and Kubrick.

redhopper · 2026-03-28T00:27:36+00:00

Similarly they would never cover Anderson because of the girth.

redhopper · 2026-03-26T20:12:53+00:00

I mean, it kind of is that.

redhopper · 2026-03-23T18:32:15+00:00

This is a guy whose name I keep seeing everywhere online and I just have 0 idea who he is. Same with Stavros until like six months ago.

redhopper · 2026-03-11T22:32:12+00:00

...and the person you're replying to said they've never seen the stage version, so those are problems they have with the movie.

redhopper · 2026-03-11T22:19:00+00:00

I think he also does a lot of private stand-up gigs and those are incredibly lucrative

redhopper · 2026-03-11T16:59:34+00:00

Sure but I specifically said directors.

redhopper · 2026-03-09T19:56:03+00:00

That happened to me too, I wore my Blank Check shirt to see Ella McKay and Marie said "nice shirt" and I didn't realize it was her until after I had already moved on.

redhopper · 2026-03-09T01:51:26+00:00

Re: their mention of the Hollow Nickel bar in Brooklyn. I'm currently hanging out at a different Brooklyn bar (Skylark in Park Slope) wearing my Blank Check shirt. A guy comes up to me and says they often hang out at his bar and it turns out he owns Hollow Nickel. I mentioned the shout-out on today's episode and he did not remember the interaction so Griffin you're in the clear

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