Patrick R

Why does Nemo need to go to school? EDIT: "I'm H2O intolerant." I'm going to hate this movie. EDIT EDIT: Ok, this movie had a pretty high density of groan-worthy moments (the sea turtles are the nadir, but most anything involving Dory was pretty terrible too) but it also has a high density of impressively harrowing moments as well. Its also the only other movie, besides Toy Story 2, to successfully be About Something, so good on it for that. Still don't think animated fish are all that interesting to look at, since the nonsensical physics usually suck the tension out of the set-pieces, with gravity existing only when it's convenient. But I don't know anyone with kids who doesn't adore this movie, so I can accept that it's just not for me. PIXAR POWER RANKINGS THUS FAR Toy Story A Bug's Life Toy Story 2 Monster's Inc. Finding Nemo

He was on a train recently. Maybe he's still on that train. Maybe he's one of those train guys now, who lives on trains, and tries to start up conversations with other people about trains.

So we've started looking for lodging (16% hotel tax! Thanks SF!) and are wondering if anyone has recommendations. What we're looking for is somewhere relatively inexpensive, in a neighborhood where we'd be able to get San Francisco International Airport by public transportation. We're looking at some hostels, but aren't sure of the neighborhoods, and if there's any places we should avoid staying. We're looking for somewhere under $150 for a night, if at all possible.

I just saw the new Richard Linklater movie, Everybody Wants Some. It is absolutely a successor to Dazed and Confused, but lacks that film's nuance and pathos. I can see the extreme jock-bro factor putting off a lot of people, but it's very good-natured and warm and just an absolutely great time and I highly recommend seeing it in the theater with a crowd. Bound to be a dorm-room hit the way Dazed and Confused was.

The Big Short is terrible. Terrible. Unless it suddenly gets good in it's second half (I turned it off about 45 minutes in) the love this movie has gotten is baffling. And Adam McKay used to be one of the most consistently great directors of comedies, too. His career is like Sullivan's Travels in real life, except he's getting rewarded for making a "real, serious film". Buh, no thank you.

This is a very selfish request, so feel free to completely ignore it, but I don't really like going on these forums as much since this thread started because I know that it's always going to be towards the top and I find the title genuinely upsetting, even as bitter jest. You don't have to tell me I'm being silly because I already know I am, but regardless it would make me feel a lot better if someone changed the thread title to something a little less frightening. I really want to repeat that I'm aware this is my own problem and that I'm being unreasonably sensitive and if no one even acknowledges this post that's totally fine. But if it turns out no one really cares what the title of the thread is, it would ease my tension if it were changed to a sentence that didn't make me so incredibly sad.

I never even pay attention to the site averages, just the averages of the 70 people I follow. At this point, since I rarely go to multiplexes and don't read movie news or watch trailers or go on social media, it's not just where I write reviews, it's where I even find out movies exist. EDIT: I just watched Terms of Endearment and it is FUCKING good. It might seem like not your thing, like a thorough mom kind of movie, but it is the greatest possible version of that movie. Every single scene has a surprising moment or joke or detail. Really really wonderful film.

I am a fan of Tarkovsky and, for the most part, can't stand Bergman. YMMV, naturally, but I wouldn't personally recommend it. I recently made a list of shame on Letterboxd and am in the process of trying to knock most of them out by the end of the year. The list is compiled of every Oscar best picture winner, every IMDB top 250 film, every "essential arthouse" film, every big box office hit I haven't seen. It's more about cultural context than actual shame (I in no way shape or form suspect I will like Avatar even a little bit), but it has been rewarding knocking a lot of stuff off. Then again, it's also made me watch Driving Miss Daisy, so maybe it's a terrible idea. EDIT: Don't know Satantango, but Shoah is episodic.

Oh man I've been avoiding this thread because I do not want to watch Finding Nemo again. I find it so dull.

Lily Wachowski (formerly "Andy") was about to be outed by The Daily Mail, so they had to come out as trans. It's the grossest worst thing that they had to come out before they were ready. But hopefully they (I'm using gender neutral pronouns because they never use the word "woman" to describe themselves in their statement) are met with the same public love and support that Lana was met with when she came out a while back.

It is. It's Windows 8.

The discussion about Steam returns on the latest episode really weirded me out. It seemed incredibly childish to suggest that someone playing a game to completion and then returning it is in any way OK. The entitlement of the "Well, of course I should be able to play this but only I can make the choice whether or not I'm going to pay for it" is just gross, and hearing it semi-condoned by the Bombcast bummed me out. I just kept waiting for someone to say "If you think it's too expensive for the length, don't fucking buy it in the first place" and no one ever did.

So I guess my Windows license is going to expire soon? I've never dealt with this before, I've only ever had whatever version of Windows comes on my laptop until my laptop fails. The problem is, it's not letting me "activate" Windows, whatever that means. This pop up comes every ten minutes So click Go to PC Settings and it goes to But then when I click "activate Windows online" it just pinwheels and then stops. Nothing ever happens. Sometimes the "Your Windows license will expire soon" pop-up even happens in that part of the control panel. What is any of this? I don't understand it. Is this just a sneaky way to get me to upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 10?

First time I saw Possession was a film print at 3 in the morning as part of a 24 hour horror film festival. I kept fading in and out of consciousness and had a completely screwed up understanding of the structure of the film (I thought it was just this nightmare loop of the first 20 minutes of the film) and didn't know what was real and what I'd imagined. That tunnel scene woke me up though. Holy shit.

I don't really buy it. It feels way too earnest, and they have to know how beloved this property is. The sliming doesn't feel like a reversal of cheap nostalgia, it just seems like a continuation of it. The whole idea of this obligatory sliming kind of annoys me, considering the entire joke of "He slimed me." was that slime wasn't a verb. I will grant you that it's possible that they may have been trying to have their cake and eat it too, but I don't think they succeed. But whatever, initial trailers don't need to be good. They just need to sell you on tone. I am just tired of the infantilizing way they do it.

Some of the most fun I've had playing a game in a long time. I was a little disappointed by the length (about 2 hours for me) and I think the upgrade tree was pretty perfunctory (the gadgets you need, you are told to buy right before the missions you need them, with the missions before always paying you exactly how much they cost) and I kind of wish that the ranking system were more strict. You don't get points, just letter grades, and I got several A+'s on levels I knew I could have done much better. Normally high score stuff in games like this (like Hotline Miami) I don't give two shits about, but since the story is so short, a robust way to replay and refine my approaches to levels would have added a lot of replay value to the game. But these are minor quibbles. The game itself is so so so much fun. The twisting labyrinth of a plot, rife with double crosses and the tense feeling of the world slowly squeezing in on the protagonist, has the same appeal of great spy movies like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy or The Spy Who Came In From The Cold while taking the piss out of them at the same time. The control is amazing, the puzzles and diverse variety of approaches to any given level are fantastic and the satisfaction that comes from leaping 80 feet through a glass window and onto a guard is almost immeasurable. I hope with the mechanics firmly in place, a sequel is in the works. Or at the very least, I hope the level editor is robust enough to foster a community creating more maps. So much fun, I can't wait to replay it.

Fair enough!

It's a good plan if you are well-off and white and have no empathy.

I am glad people like the McElroys but I have reached total saturation on them to the point where every time one of them announces a new podcast I just groan. I just heard an ad for a new Travis(?) podcast called Schmanners that sounded deadly dull. At a certain point their brand became absolutely meaningless to me because instead of doing one thing well they started doing ten thousand things with wildly varying degrees of success. Granted, they are three different people and a lot of these different projects only involve one of them but at a certain point I just can't listen to your voice anymore. How many hours a week can a single listener possibly dedicate to the McElroys?

Apparently in August there was a play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival that had a robot actor.

You know what would have been a good solution to that? two black actresses Physically impossible, I know, but I can dream, right?

Not in Canada!

Agree 100%. Jake is one of my favorite podcasters because I can always tell when he's smiling.

I wrote a very long thing that boils down to: my depression has never been worse, I wish I had the resources necessary to emigrate, regardless if he wins or not.