The Pitters' Place

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I thought a lot of the incest humor was strange and off-putting. At least it was strange that I was expected to find it so funny, when a woman being so horny (and wow she was so horny) for her own son is always creepy and gross, even in an unknowing time travel context. It's about as pure fun as fil...

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I didn't dislike it or anything. I just thought it was okay. I don't know what the big deal with it is. I figure it's one of those "you had to be there" things.

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Man. When you said you were getting into the classics you weren't kidding.

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Yeah I forgot about the smoke dash thing because I'm dumb. I think I bought it early and just kind of forgot it existed.

I'm starting to think I played through this game on hard mode.

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Lol, I never even noticed the dice. Yeah, I always had to fight about seven or eight minibosses. It took me a while. That golden ballerina thing always screwed everything up.

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I don't know what you mean by "manipulate the dice rolls", I just thought it was random. I thought the minibosses were mostly fun and creative, which saved the level for me. King Dice himself was extremely intense and nerve-wracking but somehow I finally managed it. The dragon boss was pre...

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Yeah, everyone loves BTTF. I thought it was okay.

King Dice took a long time for me. But so did most of the others. I still enjoyed it a lot, though. I think you said you hated it or something. For me it was just kind of long and repetitive, but that was it.

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Woah, it's been a few months. The Twilight Zone (season 3) : yeah it was all right. Most of the good episodes were near the beginning. Kind of repetitive and very moralizing. I liked Two, The Shelter, A Game of Pool, It's A Good Life, Five Characters in Search of an Exit, The Cavender is Coming, and...

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no but it would be kind of funny

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no lies detected

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Millennials/Gen Z and everyone else live in two entirely separate universes at this point. The former get their info from decentralized and democratized sources on social media and can see what's really going on, while the latter still get all their info from the oligarch-mediated and manufactured n...

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Some scattered thoughts on the protests. a) I'm not optimistic in general, especially about political or social stuff, but this seems to have staying power, and it looks like it could actually signal a tipping point. Millions of people have joined in, and it has the support of the majority of the pu...

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It turns out that press conference was incorrect. I'm wary of claims of "outside agitators", it's a classic attempt at delegitimizing protest. It goes all the way back to the civil rights movement. I'm not sure if I'll join in. I don't protest in general, especially during a pandemic, but ...

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Hey! The Gift was good!

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I've known about her for as long as I can remember. Yet it still seems she's largely overlooked compared to other classic 20th century authors. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View (Ellen Meiksins Wood) - The premise here is that most conventional (or bourgeois) accounts of history purporting to ...

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Nah. Not sure if moving to Reddit would make things more active. I also like this board's layout much more. Old threads are easier to read here, so it's easy for me to keep updating my book review and movie review threads and stuff. Detailed conversations are easier to have on this forum than on Red...

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Lord_Lyndon wrote:Film about society's moral decay told from perspective of a donkey.

also a pretty good summation of Animal Farm

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson) - This is an unapologetic peon to social isolation and anthropophobia, very apropos in these trying times, although in my case are pretty timeless themes. This book captures the feeling of extreme social aversion really well, although in the case...

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I think I just don't like biopics much. Even the good ones don't interest me.

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The Florida Project (2017) - yeah, it's extremely good, still. One of my faves. I have no idea where they found someone like Brooklynn Prince but they got really, really lucky. It's very moving and empathic and angry and heart-breaking. Formally it's near-flawless. I think it has some mild pacing i...

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I suppose some people think it shows that all attempts at egalitarian or building a freer world are doomed to fail because power-hungry sociopaths will always corrupt it and ruin them, and in that general sense it's "anti-socialist", because it shows that's where all attempts at making soc...

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I mean, to be fair, that's at least better than how it's often taught, which is that it's somehow pro-capitalist or anti-socialist.

People still hold up Animal Farm as a reference for why socialism is bad.

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Those people are primarily working class and non-white, though, so they don't matter.

The short was good.

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Raxivace wrote:When we were taught Animal Farm in school, we focused more on just following the plot about these wacky farm animals trying to run a farm lol rather than any allegorical aspects.

... were you taught it in, like, kindergarten

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Animal Farm (George Orwell) - I always enjoy reading this book. The last chapter never fails to move me. Even though it's largely clunky and overwrought, it's effective. I have some pretty major problems with it, though. Starting with the fact that it radically misrepresents what happened after the...

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Pan's Labyrinth (2006) - I consider this a perfect transcendent 10/10 movie. I can't really go into detail as to why I like it so much beyond all the obvious superficial reasons (beautiful, atmospheric, moving, thought-provoking, anti-fascist, and so on), I just know I do. I was worried that watchi...

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That was a pretty good review. The Evil Dead (1981) - yeah it was pretty good. I forgot how fucking boring the first forty minutes or whatever are, but it's good after that. I also forgot how fucking obnoxious all the monsters are. Like, they just did not shut the fuck up for a second. That is all. ...

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Yes, I thought it was probably referencing the miniseries, which was pretty successful at the time. The Social Network (2010) - It at least rivals Goodfellas as one of the most purely entertaining "Great Movies" ever made, although I'm not sure it's actually a great movie. It's not actuall...

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Clueless (1995) - I don't know, I thought it was funny. The Gift (2015) - I liked it even better the second time. I thought it was well-done. Very thoughtfully made and whatnot, very compelling. Jason Bateman was good. There was an empty jump scare once, but what can you do. I still don't like the ...

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Working a 9-to-5 even after you die is the most horrific idea that is even capable of entering my brain.

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My personal life has remained pretty unchanged tbh.

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The Handmaiden

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Well yeah you two kind of exhausted everything I could think of to say about Marnie, which is why I didn't say anything besides it was good. Not sure what more there is to add. I didn't love it or anything, but I think it showcased how to do ambiguity right. It was very interesting and it made you t...

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Marnie (1964) - yeah it was pretty good.

I don't know, what else do you want from me.

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Eva Yojimbo wrote:Well that sucks. Luckily it seems pretty harmless against people who aren't old or who don't have any underlying conditions, so let's hope he doesn't!

Not true. Many of the victims so far have been young and seemingly healthy.

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Goodfellas - It was good. The Girl on the Third Floor - It was bad. Parasite - (VAGUE SPOILERS) Not sure what to think about this one. It was certainly above average, I guess. Most definitely functionally well-made. But tonally and thematically it was a huge mess. The first hour was basically a cut...

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Yeah you guys already had me curious about Marnie. I'll also check out Notorious, maybe. Some time. Repulsion (1965) - It was well-made. As the kids say, there was a lot of psychology there. What a feminist, that Roman Polanski. The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (season 3) - I'm not sure if this sh...

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Yeah Event Horizon could have been a lot better but the premise was good. You also seem confident about The Birds's message but I still think it leaves room for interpretation. Anyway - Psycho (1960) - Can you believe I've managed to go through twenty-six years of life without knowing about either o...

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Oh yeah I was kind of disappointed when I find out. Although his author was the next best thing, it seems. I also thought Jeffrey Dahmer was a fictional person for a long time. Like an 80s slasher movie killer. I mean, he sounds like he would be, doesn't he? Michael Myers, Jason Vorhees, Freddy Krue...

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Interesting, although Jeff's problem with Lisa was that he was intimidated by her and her glamour and success and he would like her more if she was more down to earth. At least according to him. That thread was interesting. I don't really know how to read the movie, or if I'm supposed to read it in ...

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I have nothing to say to any of this except that for the first twenty or so years of my life I thought Sherlock Holmes was a real historical person.

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Could you expand on that?

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The Apartment (1960) - I liked it. Very good screenplay. Corporate satire mixed with mature romance. Jack Lemmon was great, he was mostly goofy and slapsticky with a side of melancholy and cynicism. It worked. Shirley MacLaine was also good. I stopped liking her character after she attempted suicid...

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I sort of liked Dogma.

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Oh yeah Ben Affleck was an idealized stand-in for Kevin Smith. A comic book artist, his dream job, who's lucky enough to work with his best friend from high school. And instead of being a fat dork, he's Ben Affleck, and he literally gets a lesbian to change her preferences just for him. Oh, and his ...

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Bojack Horseman - it was good. The ending was very fitting. The penultimate episode was probably the best episode of the series. Chasing Amy - This movie was probably perceived by straight audiences as progressive at the time, and I guess it sort of was, sort of, even though the "lesbian"...

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It depicted her family's unfounded suspicions of her as clearly wrong (and depicted her as sympathetic), so if you take them as expressions of patriarchy and misogyny (which witchcraft accusations are), then it doesn't seem sympathetic to misogyny, at least in that respect. It's been a while since I...

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The theme of the The Witch was female empowerment. The protagonist was accused of witchcraft based on no evidence through the movie and ostracized by her family. Accusing women of witchcraft is almost the archetypal expression of misogyny and male fears of female power and rebellion. Her joining the...

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I mostly think all the A24 horror movies I've seen are just okay, but I've never pinged any of them as socially regressive.

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Thanks for the recs, guys. Psycho it is!

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