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  1. 5 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    I think this is some kind of shtick.  I don't know what he's trying to do but somehow the magats will love it and it will be bad for Biden. 

    NYTimes pitchbot, is that you?

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  2. 30 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    One of them joked about hiring a Trump impersonator who had more money than Trump. Pressed on what that meant, Davidson, appearing deeply uncomfortable and choosing his words carefully, says he took it to mean that Trump was not as wealthy as he claimed.

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  3. 22 minutes ago, South Austin said:

    Very much all of this.  It will feel even more dated the older you get, but I still think the film overall holds up very well.  And as you said, Kilmer and Atherton were great.  In particular, Kilmer's comedic timing and overall performance were . . . well, genius.

    And I've always thought that the end scene to credits with Everybody Wants to Rule the World playing is such a great film moment on so many levels.  In my opinion, it's one of the iconic and timeless songs of the 1980's, not only for the guitar/synthesizer/shuffle beat combo that captured much of the 80s pop sound, but also the fatalistic Cold War lyrics, appropriate for that movie and that moment in time.  And, as Rimbo noted, while Real Genius competed with other science-based comedies around the same time, it was much more than a comedy about a bunch of nerdy and crazy college kids.  It examined a serious topic of the ethical dilemma when technological advances meet military weaponization.  Yet, the film still ends with a light-hearted optimism, set in a rain of popcorn.

    i mean who the fuck doesn't like popcorn

  4. 1 hour ago, LCHorn said:

    It holds up and Ebert’s review is one of my favorites of his.  There’s a humanism to Ebert’s reviews that is lacking in many of his contemporaries and who get distracted by film making techniques or the rhetoric around the production.  

    What made Ebert a truly great critic for me was two things. One, his biases were always very clear. Two, he was very good at describing the relevant aspects of a film.

    As a result, I could read his reviews and tell if I would like a movie or not regardless of whether or not HE liked it.

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  5. 14 hours ago, Slacks said:

    I didn't have the law in front of me, but I bet proving the intent to subvert / interfere with the election is not easy.

     

    For a felony level charge, it's not; however, Trump has done some things already very early in this case that have made the prosecution's job much easier.

    "You have the right to remain silent" is good advice if you're accused, and impossible for a character like Trump to ever do.

     

    8 hours ago, locodos said:

    I read something about that guy somewhere...

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    RIP  Compleat Angler 

    also nsfw

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    i should get a boat

  6. 1 hour ago, Bender Bending Rodriguez said:

    If your memory of Real Genius is that it's a great film or some cinematic achievement, you'll definitely be disappointed on a revisit, but it absolutely holds up as a funny 80's college campus comedy.

    I think it's aged well because it's not very gimmicky and has legitimately good performances from Val Kilmer and William Atherton. Atherton was a legendary 80's wet blanket villain and his chemistry with Kilmer is hilarious to watch decades later. It's been said that Kilmer is a character actor stuck in a leading man's body, but he's genuinely great as the clear lead in Real Genius. Awesome 80's montage sequences too, including the Tears For Fears popcorn ending. 

    Truth. And the characters they're playing are very real, and not dated tropes, which is something Ebert caught on to at the time. "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" ended up being a timeless classic.

    Reviews from the 21st century point out that Reagan-era militarism and academic ethical violations have aged well, too; the former has become clearer in hindsight, and the latter is, like the Tears for Fears song, timeless.

  7. digging into reviews, it seems that contemporary Top Critics (outside of Ebert and Variety) were pretty bored with it (tbf it was released at the time when "science teen comedy" was a genre with titles like My Science Project and Weird Science going on) but later reviewers are overwhelmingly positive. Apparently it aged a lot better than its contemporaries...

  8. I never sleep, I don't know why, I had a roommate and I drove her nuts, I mean really nuts, they had to take her away in an ambulance and everything, but she's okay now, but she had to transfer to an easier school, but I don't know if that had anything to do with being my fault, but listen, if you ever need to talk or you need help studying just let me know, 'cause I'm just a couple doors down from you guys and I never sleep, okay?

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  9. 2 hours ago, Helobious said:

    In the dating app world a presence on at least one social media platform is almost a necessity. #1 reason being it’s a way to show that you’re not a catfish. It can also show that you at least have some level of friends or a social life, and can also be a red flag filter as well (ex: oh this person follows a bunch of neo nazi accounts, let me not waste my time going on a date with them). It’s pretty much why I have an Instagram. 11 posts in 7 years, 200 something followers and accounts following. Pretty much just enough to show I’m likely not some murderer.

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