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The Prestige really rewards multiple viewings. It’s fun to track Bale’s performance in different scenes, for example.

Mom was a pretty strict Catholic. I went to Catholic school until high school. We were really active in the church. I was an altar boy (her decision, not mine). I don't remember ever really believing in it, except for all the bad stuff, of course (hell is scary!). I probably would have kept going through the motions to keep her happy, but when she died halfway through 8th grade, I was done. My dad was more or less agnostic, so he didn't make me go after that. I remember reconnecting with some of my middle school friends a decade later, and was surprised to find out that they were mostly still pretty devout. A couple of them are priests now.

“Don’t run away! Stay here with us and be miserable!”

The action is deserving of the theater experience, but 85% of this movie deserves being on in the background as you’re scrolling through Twitter.

... not CyberSpace Jam?

I started rapping this after just reading the thread title.

Huh. I’ve subscribed to Arcade before, but cancelled it probably a year ago. I was able to get a free month when resubscribing. I’ll check this out.

I had one a few weeks ago. I knew it was gonna be bad, so I flushed halfway through. That wasn’t good enough, and had to put the plunger to serious work.

I don’t FUCK and tell

You could do both, waiting until you’re in a great position to blow up.

Wow. I was expecting the director of Rango.

Fair. It's pretty much two hours of Pete Davidson giving and receiving stupid tattoos.

Big payday, plus I assume he’ll have plenty of freedom with these to do pretty much whatever he wants. That seems to be one of Netflix’s big moves, and it usually works.

I don't know if it would make my five, but since my favorites have been mentioned plenty already, I would like to shout out Dust: An Elysian Tail. Really fun game made almost entirely by one dude. I haven't played it since it came out (almost 9 years ago, yikes!) but I have fond memories of it.

Got my first dose, second one in three weeks (misread it yesterday and thought it was 2). Can’t wait to get back to normal: never washing my hands and coughing directly in the faces of strangers.

What do you want? Should we pull a Firefly and replace cursing with Chinese?

I’ve bounced between points in flyover country a couple of times in my adult life, with only one or two carloads of shit. It’s doable. It helps to have someone reliable in your destination city that can help you out. I don’t know how easily I could sell you on Cincinnati, but I’m pretty happy here.

Well, I checked my work email when I got in this afternoon, and they’re hosting a pair of events to vaccinate employees and their families tomorrow and two weeks from new. So I have booked my appointments to get the Pfizer vaccine.

This thread is giving me some real King of Staten Island vibes.

A little while ago, my 12 year old niece, who has never really shown any interest in superhero movies, asked to watch Into the Spiderverse. When I was watching it with her family, it really struck me just how much of a miracle that movie is. It should be an impenetrable mess for everyone who isn't deeply invested in comics lore, but it isn't. It just works.

My memory is garbage. Please don't ask me for more details about a mediocre movie I saw once seven months ago. I don't remember where I got this phrase, but I went into this movie expecting "John Hughes meets John Carpenter". And that seems to be the general idea: throw a bunch of moody superpowered teens together, they have all the standard teen conflicts but eventually bond, then they have to team up to defeat the big bad as it turns into a supernatural horror film. But neither side of that formula really shines, and the movie overall doesn't gain anything from mashing them together. As a teen dramedy it is pretty barebones, and the horror bits aren't particularly scary or thrilling.

I'm not against tattoos, but I have a hard time thinking of anything that I like enough to put it on my skin. I can't imagine ever getting one.

Netflix, HBO, Disney Plus (annual), Hulu (on a $2 a month deal), Spotify. So that's about $50 a month. Last year I impulsively bought an annual sub for the Criterion Channel, but I've already cancelled that and it expires in a couple weeks. I also have Amazon Prime on an annual plan, but I wouldn't know what dollar amount I would attach to that for these purposes, since streaming is just one piece of it.

Ohio opened up eligibility for everyone today, so of course I can't find anywhere that has appointments available. It's gonna be like trying to find a new console, isn't it?