Weird- here’s another one where I remember doing the writing more than I remember the actual film. How are ratings portrayed as significant, and do you think your viewing practices affect a network’s decisions? Ratings are both a cash equivalent and a measure of professional stature in the broadcast media world. Superficially the holder of …
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Dave didn't get the memo until, like, just now. He is capable enough at arranging words, but he's only just getting started at getting those words to actually do anything. He is motivated by a disrespect for authority, and for the shambles that authority has made of the world. He's a Leo. Active here and BlueSky, tilting at windmills on Instagram.
Polesrm 341: I Hate Illinois Nazis.
There’s been bunches of writing lately, I kinda wanted a little break from that. Decided to pull this from its place later in line to break up the pace here. This was the last semester, and I was really just looking for classes that would fit around the remaining required credits. While I was at …
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Marvel Movies Ranked, group 3: the Fugly.
Wherein Dave pisses you off a little bit by crapping on your favorite. But seriously, though- these were just bad. Like Star Wars’ Episodes 1, 7, 8, & 9, they’re all carried more by the momentum of what’s going on around them. That’s right, I went there too. Doctor Strange: Failing Upwards When it first …
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The Lokiverse dun Broke the MCU: A Love Story
This isn’t actually a love story, that was just a better title. But I do have a theory – and I think it’s a good one – that makes most of this shit make sense. To state the obvious up front, Endgame really did some weird shit with time. I haven’t written my rant on …
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Marvel Movies Ranked, group 2: The Eh.
Totally gonna go there, calling foul on some popular favorites. Sorry kids, but Captain America is a proud anti-law ass, and Iron Man is a short-attention-span killer. Whoops. Iron Man 2 I was at an ArcLight for this, the one in Sherman Oaks. One of their gimmicks was to do announcements at the front of …
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Marvel Movies Ranked, group 1: The Good
I haven’t seen Black Widow yet, so no idea where that fits in. That leaves 23 films, but putting them in a precise order sounded too much like work. So I divvied them up into three groups, but they’re in no particular order beyond that. Thor 3: Ragnarok This is a no-brainer. Good music, good …
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Another 335 essay: Bob Roberts is A Face in Every Crowd
Compare the character of Lonesome Rhodes from A Face In The Crowd with the title character in Bob Roberts. What do these characters say about each filmmaker’s view of the common man in America? What do these characters tell us about corruption in the American political system (and the system’s ability to overcome corrupt actors)? …
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Pols335, A Face In The Crowd: Wherein Foghorn Leghorn is acknowledged for the bastard bird he is.
God, I hated this movie. That’s all I remember about it; how irritating it was to watch. Still liking my writing though. A Pulp Fiction joke, ‘noble civil savages’, there’s some good stuff in here. A Face in the Crowd How does the film end? In the final scene what does the writer Mel Miller …
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More Pols 335, another film I don’t remember watching. Bob Roberts? Hey, if you say so.
I was reading through for a last edit, and through question after question, I couldn’t for the life of me remember watching the movie, or anything about it. I remember writing this, but not watching what I was writing about. Still I enjoyed the reading. Some legit future-predicting commentary and even jokes about Republicans being …
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