POLTERGEIST (which scarred my wife as a child) is, in my opinion, good.
Which I wasn't expecting.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Among the best of a genre I'd call "family horror," which if they still make anymore I'm not aware of them (last one I remember is Arachnophobia). Thrills-not-scares, a bit goofy, pitched in the key of Spielberg (who produced), usually set in a gradually demolished suburbia.
Anyway I thought this wouldn't hold up, but other than a few special effects that I'm guessing weren't the most effective moments of the movie even in 1982, it very much does.
Really dug how absolutely bugfuck Tobe Hooper was allowed to make the final act.
Final shot, positing Holiday Inn as panacea from corporatized suburbs, was a nice satirical button on maybe the most aggressively product-placed films of the early 80s and that's saying something. (Since this is Hooper I'm pretty sure I'm not overthinking this; anyway I laughed.)
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Plenty of people are pointing out the reasons this is nonsense even if the premise of "playing by the rules" were legit.
I'll add this: what we're seeing is an attempted fascist takeover of the government; therefore, we should very much desire unprecedented radical remedy.
Like, yes, sure, fine, he's being disingenuous about how adding seats to the court is outside the rules while also claiming Republican judicial nullification is inside the rules.
But also Republicans are an openly fascist party. Let's get unprecedented, please.
The Republican political "chess" strategy has been methodically stabbing their opponent with a butcher knife, then whining that their opponent's attempt to take their knife away isn't listed among authorized chess moves.
In the months after the 2016 election, still reeling from the permanent demolition of the reality I'd known, I wrote an essay called Sky. It was my lament. armoxon.com/2017/01/sky.ht…
Near the end of the first year, I posted Bubbles, about a nation I’d failed to see, the terrible lies it has been founded upon, the spiritual desire of such terrible lies, and what I perceive as our role, which is to live as good stories, as works of art. armoxon.com/2017/08/bubble…
Anyone who's followed me for any amount of time knows that I answer right-wing trolls with a non sequitur "America is a democracy," to demonstrate their reflexive response that we aren't.
I've done it to illustrate exactly how anti-democracy the American fascist party is.
I'm not sure I'm going to use the word "Republican" anymore, given the party is fully committed to ending our Republic—our *democratic* Republic—which is a democracy.
They aren't Republicans worth the name. They're fascists. I believe I'll call them that.
The Fascist Party.
It doesn't have to be done angrily or aggressively. In fact it should be matter-of-fact. It's naming what they are by what they've done and what they're trying to do.
My opinion is Pence "won" the debate simply because the debate happened, and it shouldn't have. Pence was allowed the trappings of normalcy when he should have been in quarantine. He was given a platform that the sort of liar he has proved himself to be should never be afforded.
If Pence doesn't have to be in quarantine, if Trump gets to act like he's not infected, then Senators returning to confirm a justice ahead of the election will also be afforded similar wavers, then thousands or millions of other people so infected will think they can be, too.
The medium is the message. The questions and answers are window dressing. They can be true, they can be lies; it doesn't matter, they'll be hashed over as if they're equal value anyway. Pence knows that, so he uses lies—because lies are what he prefers.
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT is, in my opinion, good. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
At first I was distracted by the premise, which seemed to me ludicrous* and the sheer bulk of the rom-com tropes (tropes which yes, this movie basically invented), but before long Gable and Colbert’s chemistry and comic chops brought my walls of Jericho down.
One strange bit: I have nothing against Capra at all but this feels nothing like a Capra and I sort of mean it (though I’m not sure how or why) as a compliment. If you’d shown this to me blind I’d have guessed Sturges.