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You post the same thing, over and over, despite no evidence to back it up. I get it-- for years many were calling out Joe Biden as someone suffering from Alzheimer's while everyone around him, and the mainstream media, denied what was obvious. When they could deny it no longer, they had to pull him from the race. You seem determined to play "I know you are but what am I" and try to throw the same charge back at Trump, but he clearly has control of all his faculties.
You may dislike him, and you may dislike the way he speaks, but you're doing yourself a disservice by constantly stating something that clearly isn't true. Perhaps focus on what it is about his politics, or even his demeanor that you dislike, rather than pretending he has dementia and hoping everyone will join along in your game of make-believe.
What is there to dislike about him?
SpaceX is doing incredible things, as is Tesla, and Twitter is the only major social media platform that isn't heavily censored. What Ponzi scheme do you see?
Just got home from work. Are y'all watching? Is there a Zoom? How does this work?
I can suggest the films of 2015 and later that I found most engaging, but based on what you shared about films you liked/disliked, I don't think there is much overlap in our taste.
Here's a top of my head list of movies since 2015 that I think are well worth watching
Mad Max: Fury Road
Anomalisa
Bone Tomahawk
Suburra
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Tangerine
La La Land
Hacksaw Ridge
The Nice Guys
Hail, Caesar!
Split
Baby Driver
Dunkirk
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Thor: Ragnarok
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Phantom Thread
The Death of Stalin
Blade Runner 2049
Hereditary
Avengers: Infinity War
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Dragged Across Concrete
The Vast of Night
Captain Marvel
The Highwaymen
Parasite
Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood
Midsommar
Crawl
Uncut Gems
The Kid Detective
The French Dispatch
Old
The Green Knight
Licorice Pizza
The Batman
Confess, Fletch
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Babylon
Late Night With the Devil
Lousy Carter
The Holdovers
Godzilla Minus One
No One Will Save You
American Fiction
The Fall Guy
Am I Racist?
Inglourious Basterds and Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood certainly belong on this list, as do Burn After Reading and The Mexican, and while he had but a tiny role, I think it's fair to add True Romance, too.
No, I work those nights. I'm sometimes free on Friday nights, nearly never on Saturdays. Otherwise I'd be happy to join in. My work is somewhat seasonal, and I'll let you know if/when a night off coincides with a showing.
Do you primarily do horror movies? Or is the recent spate of them because Halloween is coming up?
Crazy that an audience that went to see those films was ill-behaved. I saw so many films at the Castro over the years and the audience was always respectful. Sorry they ruined your night!
I watched Megalopolis and it's 100% a theater movie. It's a challenging film, and one that I'm not surprised most modern viewers dislike. There's a throwback quality, and an earnestness, to the dialogue that feels like it comes from the 1950s. Between that and the art deco everything, it has a retro feel, but at the same time it portrays the zeitgeist of today better than anything else I've seen. But then, it kind of falls apart at the end.
Where in San Francisco did you see the '40s double-bill? What films? It's very surprising to me that the audience was talking through the film, especially given that they were older people, who tend to be quieter than younger movie-goers. I lived most of my life in the Bay Area, and saw movies in San Francisco constantly, and never experienced that.
I'd like to, but I'm rarely free on Friday and Saturday nights. It sounds like you watch and then record just afterwards?
Is the podcast recorded while you watch together?
You get together physically in one place, or online? I'd be into doing that, if you are open to having others join in.
I followed you just now. What's this Movie Chat Podcast about? That looks interesting.
Are you on Letterboxd?
Los Angeles is definitely ground zero for movie-goers. When I lived there I went to the movies all the time. I know it's gone, but the Silent Movie Theater was a treasure, and the last theater in the U.S. that showed exclusively silents.
I still visit L.A. a couple times a year, and I often plan at least some aspects of the trip around what's playing in theaters when I need to be there. When I was there last month I caught a John Ritter double feature at the New Beverly, as well as one of Leonard Maltin's 1930s double-features, along with The Exorcist at the Vista. Earlier this year I was there to see a hard-to-find film from 1933, Deluge, at the Ted Mann theater, along with a bunch of other stuff I'd otherwise never have been able to see on a big screen.
I'm lucky that here in Austin there are a lot of options for older films.
What are some of the recent things you've seen?
That's the direction I seem to be headed in. I've always sought out older films on a big screen whenever possible, but in the past there were a lot more new films that I wanted to see.
Do you think that's a purposeful thing, or ineptitude? It seems to me that it's more akin to the way the music industry fumbled the advent of the mp3 than an on-purpose choice to do away with theaters.
I've been lucky enough to have always lived in cities with good repertory and arthouse theaters. There are at least 9 theaters near me that show older films on a regular basis, and the local Cinemark often has one-off showings of something older.
I wish there were more new films being made that were interesting to me, but it seems with each passing year there are fewer and fewer new films that catch my eye.
It's unfortunate that the theaters near you are so bad. Was it the projection? The sound? Both?
Do you just not like going to the movies, or is it because there aren't any good theaters near you?
He went to see the film not knowing exactly what he'd see, and wondering if he'd see his daughter in the film, and get a new clue as to here whereabouts. Instead, he saw a movie with a different actress, who was killed onscreen. He later says so. When trying to track down Ratan, he shouts that he just saw a film where a girl was murdered and he needs to find his daughter right away.
What parts made you laugh?
I found nothing in it unintentionally funny. There were moments that were meant to be wryly humorous, but at no point did I find myself laughing at the film, and neither did anyone in the nearly-full theater where I saw it.