Chris

I've only seen the first episode but it seemed bad It feels like the least-interesting and already-explored-better components of both Twin Peaks and any high school teen drama, rather than a novel collision of those two things.

"Breaking Bad" collected thread: (Assembled from an existing thread moved over from Idle Banter, as well as many, many posts from the megathread.)

"Black Mirror" collected thread:

"Person of Interest" collected thread: (I'll just put these in here as I collect them, as a way of pinging newly created threads that have posts that are recent, but not recent enough to necessarily show up near the top of the "Unread Content" filter, which is at least how I browse the forums usually.)

I agree—at least when I last watched the full movie a year or two ago, I didn't find that scene distracting or poor.

God this is really fucking good and stupid. There's definitely a gold medal sublist of this list in which titles are only acceptable if the way that line is sung doesn't end up putting emphasis on syllables that would be unnatural if you were speaking the film's title aloud. So, "Double Indemnity" does work ("DOU-ble in-DEM-nity"), but "A Sense of History" doesn't really—pretty much anything beginning with an article like "a" or "the" doesn't work, because we almost never strongly emphasize those words at the beginning of a phrase. This criterion knocks out a lot of the examples on the list. Standouts from the linked list: - Double Indemnity - Shadow Conspiracy - Black Oak Conspiracy - Voodoo Academy - Werckmeister Harmonies - Bridget Jones' Diary - Deal of the Century Arguable: - Manchester by the Sea - Safety Not Guaranteed

Oh it looks like it was actually two full streams behind. Just highlighted and uploaded part 3 as well!

Just highlighted and exported the next long chunk; skipped the little 20 minute one that seemed like it had some stream problems. (Hopefully that was the correct move.) It should show up on YouTube momentarily.

Here are some new threads in this forum created by pulling together related posts from existing threads, mainly the big film/television thread: I also brought the general Twin Peaks discussion thread over from the Twin Peaks Rewatch forum: And I brought a bunch of recent X-Files discussion from the film/tv megathread over to the dedicated X-Files thread, as several people in the megathread had pointed out that there was already a place to talk about X-Files:

Yep, that's still the plan!

I mentioned this on an Idle Thumbs episode a few weeks back, but I got ahold of the Silver Screen edition of Star Wars, which is different to the Despecialized ones as it's actually a new scan of an original theatrical 35mm print, rather than a cleaned-up version of an official release. It looks awesome and is really worth tracking down. Like any of these things, it's kind of sketchy and I felt weird getting it; this is the only thing I've pirated in many, many years, and it involved paying for a Usenet account for one day so I could actually get access to it. It was a pain in the ass. Glad I did, though.

Your list really made me want to seek out Duel!

I understand your misgivings about Jurassic Park, although I personally don't really care how the movie treats anything in the book differently; in general I think adaptations should be judged on their own merits. If you believe the Hammond of the film to be an uninteresting character, it should be because of what's on screen, not because of what was on the page. For whatever reason, I also don't find the CG to have aged to the point that it detracts from the film for me. The movie still plays how it's basically intended to when I watch it, I think. I do really think Jurassic Park is a great collection of characters, with adults who basically interact with each other like adults, which certainly isn't something I can say about many modern movies cut from similar cloth--or (for instance) Temple of Doom, which is higher up on this list and has its own suite of other issues that make it tough to watch at this point. Temple of Doom used to be my favorite Indiana Jones movie but at this point I only really rate Raiders; I'll happily watch the other two but I don't think either one is a great film in the way I believe Raiders to be, or Jurassic Park for that matter.

Oh hey we did it.

As a representative of the Idle Thumbs Podcast, and as a human being, I simply cannot get on board Jurassic Park being place below so many of these other films, but I respect the thoroughness involved in assembling this list.

We saw this movie in the theater and loved it. I haven't seen any of Andrea Arnold's other work (excited to watch her Wuthering Heights adaptation, as we just read it for the Idle Book Club), but her voice as a director was really powerful in this film and I would like to watch more. I agree that the film is ultimately positive, despite all the darkness and dysfunction depicted, and addresses both the very real structural and systemic forces surrounding poverty, as well as the ability to transcend them to some extent.

Would folks object to my splitting out some conversations in here into their own threads about the particular film/series being discussed? I don't mean one-off posts; but given this is a 461-page thread that's been going on for well over a decade, I think it might not be the best place to carry out sustained discussions and suspect it may actually discourage discussion that people might otherwise have if there were more threads.

Oh yeah definitely. But 1) we hope if we actually can make it good there's growth potential, and 2) doing a new thing with a new goal is fun and energizing, and Thumbs proper has been coasting for a while. Obviously if people simply don't like the new thing, we fucked up. We'll cross that bridge if we come to it.

We really don't. It's more important than it's ever been in my adult lifetime for people to be politically engaged, and we are, but part of what Thumbs is for us is an escape from all of the "real life" stuff. I'm sure there are people for whom that seems cowardly or immature but it feels as though every waking moment this year has been flooded in dismal politics and current events, which I have spent a lot of time trying to understand and react to constructively, and just on a psychological maintenance level I need a couple hours a week where I know I can pretend not to be living in that. Anyway I'll see any San Francisco folks at the refugee ban rally today.

We were pretty close to just keeping the existing feed, but (fairly late) we decided it made more sense to keep it around in case we do end up wanting to actually restart the full on video game show, or release periodic content onto there.

I think we fucked up if we created this impression!

This is exactly what we'd want to do. The challenge is coming up with a solution that 1.) is easy for people to authenticate and use, 2) has some kind of mechanism by which we can detect whether people are abusing the ad-free feed and spreading it to non-subscribers, and 3.) is actually technically achievable by us. Being limited to any two of those is much easier, but I think we'd want to have all three before we launched such a system.

I think one big difference between Curb and The King of Comedy (both of which I love) is that the character in Curb has no real stakes, because ultimately he is very wealthy and has an essentially functional life, and can do whatever he wants without much risk of real reprisal. That really changes the meaning of what's going on with these two characters.

We're going to keep the Idle Thumbs feed going in case we want to push anything to it (that's why we're launching a new cast rather than just modifying Thumbs). I don't know what form that would take. It probably wouldn't be a game club like that, as that would immediately reintroduce the kind of ongoing pressure I'm trying to reduce, haha. Even with the Book Club, I already end up taking a lot longer to read the book than Sarah does because I have introduced so many extra dumb projects into my free time (mainly Idle Thumbs-related), and then I feel bad about it, so my big goal here is to rid myself of as much of that homework as I can.

Hmm yeah, mine is also bad and weird now. Very strange. I gave Doug a heads up about your post.