*bolts upright from a troubled sleep*
maura labingi

*bolts upright from an uneasy sleep*
Mars attacks (1996) got the alien-killing smarmy pop song idea from Attack of the killer tomatoes (1978)

left to my own devices?
yeah,
probably would

IF YOU SEE AN ISOLATED STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS GOING NOWHERE
ascend

Sometimes I think about how the Beatles are so absent from modern popular culture as to be a black hole; you kind of have to infer their presence from their effects on other things

All this by virtue of them being so prohibitively expensive to license that most people just, don't

I have been informed that initiating a course of action and just hanging around in case a causal connection reveals itself "does not constitute a rigorous research design"

TODO list
1. send him to outer space
2. find the human race

*ambient emotional support*

News: a chatbot got loose again
Me:

Make a reference to demolition man (1993), see demolition man (1993)

Me: back in my days, we used to put a random CD into the player, sit down and just accept what came out of the speakers. this is how we found all of our favorite tunes
Youngster: do you need help with the shells again?
Me: ...yes

And now, without further ado, we get right into the spirit of the #FridayMovie ethos with the four least descriptive movie titles you ever did see, presented thus:

You can reach the first post of the former thread here
https://mastodon.social/@sargoth/111941848519322114
and the last post here
https://mastodon.social/@sargoth/117275846377930145

'tis archival magic

LONGTIME MOVIE THREAD FOLLOWERS
I bring good news
it is time to boot the polls up again after the summer hiatus, and so I am doing it right here, right now, with both pomp and circumstance, thunder and applause, nooks and crannies, cats and dogs, binaries and nonbinaries, etc

I am also booting it up as a brand new thread, since the old one ran for over two years and was difficult to navigate without external aid. Which is less than optimal, all things considered

election day speedrun (any%)

Unrelatedly, it is very funny that most summaries of Hardware say something along the lines of "a dude brings a piece of military gunk to his girlfriend's home". This is in fact what happens, but it is also a very weird framing, since a person who doesn't know the plot wouldn't have a reason to center the girlfriend as the central locus

After seeing the movie, you may or may not want a girlfriend who reverse-engineers hardware and related military gunk. But you can't assume this beforehand

Writing prompt: find some way to weave these six movies into a singular coherent 2000 word text

Internet went down yesterday, so I took it as an opportunity to watch a couple of movies that were on the polls but didn't win

It was an, experience

Unrelatedly, having dozens upon dozens of movies available in offline mode is a big boon. would recommend

six episodes left
time to find out how this long-standing cultural phenomenon noped itself out of existence, such that Existenz (1999) has more of a lasting cultural impact

Sun Tzu: when your enemy asks if you are about to attack, consider lying