What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?

I get that they had to make it somewhat different from the original but the scene where Dalton meets the staff in the original should have been somewhat recreated IMO. It has some of the most iconic dialogue.

Watched a couple of movies that I skipped back when they came out. In honor of National Record Shop Day, I watched Empire Records. It wanted to be a wacky ensemble cast comedy along the lines of Clerks, but it falls flat. Mediocre with occasional flashes of unrealized potential. I made it all the way through the movie on my great nostalgia for the '90s, especially the music of the early '90s. Then I watched Flatliners, a dark movie about med students who become obsessed with the afterlife and take brief excursions there. The movie has good spooky atmosphere and a strong cast (Kevin Bacon, Julia Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland, Oliver Platt, and a Baldwin brother), but comes up short in imagination. Neither movie was great, but Flatliners is worth a watch.

I went to see Civil War last night with my sons. I have many thoughts and feelings about this movie but not enough energy to put them all down. Don't worry, I'll come back to this post after everyone has moved onto the next page and add some more ideas that nobody will ever see. Why not just post to a blog? Because there is something broken inside me that prevents me from writing for a potentially large audience.

• There was a sense of warring militias and no easy ability map out your politics onto the movie
• I think the people in front of us expected White House Down and left the theater in a daze
• It was sort of a movie about war photographers
• Every famous photograph of a terrible atrocity in another country gets acted out in this film
• I woke up at 3:30 a.m. and had trouble getting back to sleep
• My son said that Children of Men is probably a better version movie about social collapse
• The movie has me thinking about the ways that feuding militias often precede a Civil War
• "The Portland Maoists"

This seems like a good summary to me:

That was pretty great. What is a cucumber?

Cucumbers are stand-ins for eggplants.

I honestly had no interest in Civil War. At best, I thought it would be a dumb war movie. At worst, an idiotic fantasy like Red Dawn, glorifying the murdering of Americans because they think differently.
Seeing this video essay when it came out made me interested, made me think there is a real message there that is going to be missed by every stupid fuck who fantasizes about this happening.