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I read some old-ass books this year. It was the year of "getting these over with."

1. Le Morte d'Arthur (1485, Thomas Malory)
2. Pelle the Conqueror (1906, Martin Anderson Nex?)
3. Hamnet (2020,...

Every book I read in 2023:

1. Look Homeward, Angel (1929, Thomas Wolfe)
2. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845, Frederick Douglass)
3. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (1558,...

1927

1. Metropolis
2. Napoleon
3. Sunrise
4. The Kid Brother
5. The Lodger
6. Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
7. When a Man Loves
8. Underworld

The movie is also racist, but not to the extent that the book is. The book has five pages explaining why the Ku Klux Klan was necessary to preserve justice in the south, whereas the movie does not...

So, Gone with the Wind is super-racist. I'm not talking about dated stereotypes (though it has those, too), I'm talking straight up white supremacist, Birth of a Nation, "slavery was good actually"...

Touch grass? Like in a Terrence Malick movie?

I sent back my last DVD ever. It was a good run.

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The one that really annoyed me was Kingsman 2. I didn't even see it, so I don't actually know how they managed to make Colin Firth survive being SHOT IN THE HEAD AT POINT BLANK RANGE.

I don't think there's anything wrong with telling off a kid for being a brat. However, "that's how my parents raised me" strikes me as a pretty poor defense of one's own parenting. Your parents could...

Grampaw!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG053vF_OYY

RIP Roe v. Wade, apparently. I feel ill.

Thank you, sir.

I forgot to include a poll. Now I can't figure out how to add it, or delete the thread. :(

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In case anyone was wondering, monolith94 has really changed.

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I'm glad it's now canon that Batman wears makeup around his eyes.

I've never seen Predator.

Fail-Safe is totally stylish.


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I was thinking Covid. The epilogue seems to be set during the pandemic.

I'm not sure I understand the final scene.

Are we meant to infer that the director died, and left the car to the driver?

Well, I'm going on strike. I'm sure it won't be incredibly stressful.

3,500 Hennepin County workers announce plan to strike beginning Feb. 2

1. J R (1975, William Gaddis)
2. Wide Sargasso Sea (1966, Jean Rhys)
3. The Canterbury Tales (1400, Geoffrey Chaucer)
4. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
5....

Waterworld is basically The Road Warrior with boats. It's fun.

Are we sure the new guy is Morpheus? He definitely is taking the Morpheus role (offering pills, teaching kung fu), but could still be a new character.

Looks very different than I expected. I miss...

Robert David Steele has died of Covid. This one actually hurts a little, because "secret NASA child slave colonies on Mars" is, by far, my favorite conspiracy theory of all time.