GraniteM

It's worthwhile to acknowledge that movies don't all exist along a Good-Bad axis, but also along an axis of Watchable-Unwatchable.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie with Bob Hoskins is Bad and Watchable.

La Dolce Vita is Good, but I would be hard-pressed to call it Watchable.

Morbius is Terrible, but not even remotely in a fun, Watchable way. It's just cold dog shit.

And of course all of these categories are 100% subjective relative to the individual viewer.

Just watched the finale of DS9. It features an orange-hued dictator with bad skin and weird hair at the top of a dictatorship staffed by religiously-devoted yes-men, hyper-aggressive murder troopers, and cynical opportunists, who even as the whole thing is falling apart around their ears, keep trying to find another patsy to take the blame for the ever-deteriorating situation.

So, spot-on depiction of the future, really.

Or William H. Macy

A man is basically as faithful as his options.

--Chris Rock, Bigger and Blacker

*I don't like to put gender essentialist assymetries into these things, but then again jokes generally aren't funny if they aren't at least a little true.

Similar experience: Watching The Matrix in theatre. Neo and Agent Smith face off in the subway.

Right as the newspaper blows by, someone let out an absolutely perfect Ennio Morricone whistle from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Legitimately impressive whistling skills, great volume, perfect pitch. Got a huge laugh.

DON'T GET IN THE KILN!

I present to you, my favorite book map of all time:

Oh, fuck, now I've got three nickels!

Every day brings us closer to AD BS.