The third one was mostly ruined by the fact that Sofia Coppola couldn’t act. The scenes between her and Andy Garcia were verging on painful to watch. But yes, the bits of the film that were about Michael were good, actually.

One makes hideous sounds when I try to play it as a musical instrument, and the other I can play reasonably competently.

The branding of ploughman’s lunch was invented in the 60s but that same Wikipedia page states it had been a common meal for rural labourers for centuries.

I love that at some point the SG-1 writers must have asked themselves “what if a Goa’uld had rizz?” And thus Ba’al was born.

I feel like you have to have contempt for Indiana Jones to allow Indiana Jones 4 to happen.

I mean, looking back at his filmography, he arguably never could. (Zardoz is good, though.)

I’m pretty sure I would want a nap after eating an entire beef wellington, but I wouldn’t call that peasant food.

What do you call a christian who hates christ?

Evangelical, usually.

If Greta Thunberg is the antichrist and Peter Thiel a true Christian, then I am fully the fuck onboard with the devil’s machinations.

Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis?

Steve told me.

I studied poetry, painting, and music so that my sons could study mathematics and commerce, and their sons could work long hours on the assembly - without having ever studied anything - so that they can consume slop generated by AI that was pushed on everyone by people who studied commerce, created by people who studied mathematics, and trained on the works of those who studied poetry, painting, and music.

China is the future of the auto industry, if it isn’t already.

You can’t already be the future. That’s called being the present.

Sounds like a foal’s errand to me.

Come on now, OP. What ever other criticism you may level at that sandwich, you can’t say that cheese and raw onion is lacking in flavour.

Melania is a manananggal? Melananggal?

What a ridiculous name for a cat! Paul?! That’s a person’s name!

Lol, I guess I should have expected that response. 🤦‍♀️

I ask because I feel like your characterisation of The Shawshank Redemption could equally apply to The Godfather (if you replace good guy with protagonist) and I think they are equivalently great films. It’s just that one film is about how a normal (presumably innocent) man descends into evil and cruelty due to his circumstances and unfortunate events, the other is about a normal (textually innocent) man who maintains his inner light despite his circumstances and unfortunate events. While you may or may not find one more compelling than the other, I think they are both equally special in their way.

How do you feel about The Godfather, if I may ask?

I wonder who he plagiarised that from?