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i think we’re gonna watch batman & robin tonight

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forgot slash never really noticed that this movie begins with a shot of batman’s ass

okay, i don’t care what anyone says, a movie that starts with batman and robin playing ice hockey with mr. freeze’s henchmen rules

having just watched the new spider-man — a movie i liked — there is a lot to be said for a movie like this one that just has a ton of personality, if nothing else

no one asked but the 4K blu ray looks great

everything about uma thurman’s performance is pure camp and i love it

this would not be a “jamelle watches a movie from the 90s” thread if i did not comment on everyone’s gigantic suits

this is cinema

i will say that george clooney was a weird choice for batman/bruce wayne. wish they could have gotten kilmer back for the role

there’s a brief scene of bane in a trenchcoat and hat and it is very funny to me

let me also say that i love that the whole premise of this movie is “what if batman and robin were just, like, super horned up.” bring this shit back to blockbusters!!!!

movie’s over. final verdict? dumb as hell and certainly not the best movie but a totally enjoyable watch.

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17 Dec

My newsletter will still come out tomorrow but this is my last column of the year, on the late Tyler Stovall’s last book “White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea” nytimes.com/2021/12/17/opi… l

This year, I have been really interested in questions of labor, political equality, the intersection of race and capitalism, and constitutional reform, and my favorite columns have touched on at least one of those areas. I thought I’d share some of them.

In January, I wrote about the history of the filibuster. “The framers wanted stability in government, not stagnation. What we have now, with the filibuster intact, is a Senate that can barely move.” nytimes.com/2021/01/29/opi…

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15 Dec

just put on batman: forever to have something playing while i do a little work and the thing i remember most about this movie — besides “kiss from a rose” — is those dope glass mugs that you could get from mcdonald’s

five minutes in and one thing i can say for sure is that tommy lee jones is *going for it*

having watched a bit of schumacher recently one thing i wish this movie had was more of his signature sweatiness. everyone should be glistening, imo

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13 Dec

weirdest thing in that “only the coastal elites care about covid” piece is the casual dismissal of infant formula as a “silly novelty”theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

yeah, you know, that silly novelty that is essential for working mothers who cannot get and do not have the time to pump and breastfeed

or you know, mothers and parents who cannot provide milk for any other reason

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@jbouie

12 Dec

did i just spend $25 to own every leprechaun movie on itunes? yes i did

relatedly, my purchased movies library on itunes is a wasteland

basically, i spend a lot of time doing dishes these days, and watching trash is what helps keep the tedium at bay

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12 Dec

last two things i’ll say about that “reconstruction was bad, actually” piece.

the first is that if i were asserting that reconstruction revisionism only emerged after the people who experienced it had died, i probably would not aim my fire at a man who was alive during reconstruction and whose methodology involved interviewing formerly enslaved blacks.

the second is that the argument that the south was “prostrate” and exploited under reconstruction regimes depends on writing 4 million black southerners out of the polity and ignoring how, in several states, they constituted the majority of the population.

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@jbouie

12 Dec

imagine publishing pure and uncut dunning school propaganda in this year of our lord 2021

but then you see the byline and it makes total sense

the best part is the uncritical citation of the notoriously shoddy and racist anti-reconstruction screed “the prostate state,” which she presents as impartial because the author was a Maine Republican, thus recapitulating the reason the book gained a following

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