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now here's where I have to admit something—something that divides me somewhat from my friend @KaylinEvergreen, who frankly got exposed to a lot more culture than we ever did and therefore has always had better tastes.
we *started* as an "ironic", "bad movie" nerd fan.
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we *started* as an "ironic", "bad movie" nerd fan.
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it's not that we were totally ignorant of cinema, but we learned (largely thanks to @Caltech, with its abysmally toxic male nerd culture) to be like the right-wing nerds, dividing up films (and everything else) into Good™ and Bad™, and laughing and jeering at the Bad™.
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we learned about #MST3K at Caltech; for a long while afterwards "Mystery Science Theater 3000" was among our most reliable "comfort watches", especially when we were very lonely and miserable in Seattle. it took us a long while to realize we were traumatizing ourselves.
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Extemely unpopular #Oscars opinion: I thought BLACK PANTHER was just okay, and more a cultural phenomenon than a great film.
I've seen only two of the other BP nominees. VICE is self-indulgent and unfocused, but made me angry in the way it intended. ROMA is gorgeous and moving, though hard to watch at times. Honestly, my favorite film of 2018 was BUSTER SCRUGGS. #Oscars
