Wait, what? You went to a movie to ENJOY IT and not to bask in 2023 culture wars? You are probably also a person who saw Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning and didn't spend every moment weeping, thinking about the implications of AI destroying the world and just enjoyed the AMAZING stunts.
Wait, what? You went to a movie to ENJOY IT and not to bask in 2023 culture wars? You are probably also a person who saw Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning and didn't spend every moment weeping, thinking about the implications of AI destroying the world and just enjoyed the AMAZING stunts.
In response to Ben Shapiro taking Barbie dolls and setting them on fire, someone photoshoped a picture of him at the Barbie movie with him as a ken doll from the waist down. Probably still on X ( ex-Twitter)
I enjoyed the hell out of it! I laughed, I cried, the costumes where great, the sets were great, the actors gave some of the best performances of their careers, and I walked out of the theater with a new perspective on the world.
And then I went and saw Oppenheimer. I enjoyed the hell out of it. I laughed, I cried, the costumes where great, the sets were great, the actors gave some of the best performances of their careers, and I walked out of the theater with a new perspective on the world.
I think Rush Limbaugh started this trend. Any new, big movie that came out, he'd spend an hour talking about how it served the liberal agenda. The "everything is political" flex, for me anyway, has gotten really old. Just watch the movie and enjoy it. Take a break.
Gotta say, when I first heard Rush, I was very much taken with him. I'm guessing it was around 1990 and he was still broadcasting out of New York. He was funny. He was dead-on right about a lot of the things the Democrats were doing back then. I mean, you had donors buying pallets of Jim Wright's books to get around campaign finance laws and just all kinds of crazy stuff. Rush called them all out and it was entertaining. I listened every day. I bought his books. I watched his videos.
When he moved to Florida, I think he got lazy. It wasn't anywhere near as creative or engaging. It was just angry and ill-informed and sometimes just stupid. All he was doing was reading the Wall Street Journal editorial page to his listeners and vamping on it. I stopped listening then.
And then, in his later years, he was like Trump in a lot of ways. He had a collection of stock phrases -- harmless little fuzzball, half my brain tied behind my back, America's Truth Detector, etc. -- that he would click together to make a broadcast out of. Three hours a day of that, ever day. You always knew exactly where he was going to go before he even came on the air. At the end, he was just chasing the audience. It was all nuts.
Now he's been replaced by even worse people: Hannity (who used to talk about how proud he was to be #2 behind Rush), Levin, Beck, Hewitt, and all the rest. There's such a huge market out there for that stuff that it just keeps going and getting bigger and weirder and more conspiratorial.
This actually happened when I heard Rush on WABC in NY. This would have been within the first couple of years after the station stopped playing Top 40.
A listener was going on and on about "the blacks". Rush actually cut the guy short, and told him that he had no idea what life was like for a black man in the US. He even called the guy "sir" in that typically Rush way where "sir" can actually mean "you're an idiot".
What I resent the most about Rush Limbaugh, apart from everything he ever said, was that he ruined my favorite band's name. People would ask me if I liked Rush and I would explode with enthusiasm about their virtuoso playing and lyrics and the whole zeitgeist until they corrected me about which Rush they meant.
Wait, what? You went to a movie to ENJOY IT and not to bask in 2023 culture wars? You are probably also a person who saw Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning and didn't spend every moment weeping, thinking about the implications of AI destroying the world and just enjoyed the AMAZING stunts.
In response to Ben Shapiro taking Barbie dolls and setting them on fire, someone photoshoped a picture of him at the Barbie movie with him as a ken doll from the waist down. Probably still on X ( ex-Twitter)
I enjoyed the hell out of it! I laughed, I cried, the costumes where great, the sets were great, the actors gave some of the best performances of their careers, and I walked out of the theater with a new perspective on the world.
And then I went and saw Oppenheimer. I enjoyed the hell out of it. I laughed, I cried, the costumes where great, the sets were great, the actors gave some of the best performances of their careers, and I walked out of the theater with a new perspective on the world.
I think Rush Limbaugh started this trend. Any new, big movie that came out, he'd spend an hour talking about how it served the liberal agenda. The "everything is political" flex, for me anyway, has gotten really old. Just watch the movie and enjoy it. Take a break.
Ah, Rush, the grandfather of the dis-information industry. Wherever he is resting, may it not be in peace.
Gotta say, when I first heard Rush, I was very much taken with him. I'm guessing it was around 1990 and he was still broadcasting out of New York. He was funny. He was dead-on right about a lot of the things the Democrats were doing back then. I mean, you had donors buying pallets of Jim Wright's books to get around campaign finance laws and just all kinds of crazy stuff. Rush called them all out and it was entertaining. I listened every day. I bought his books. I watched his videos.
When he moved to Florida, I think he got lazy. It wasn't anywhere near as creative or engaging. It was just angry and ill-informed and sometimes just stupid. All he was doing was reading the Wall Street Journal editorial page to his listeners and vamping on it. I stopped listening then.
And then, in his later years, he was like Trump in a lot of ways. He had a collection of stock phrases -- harmless little fuzzball, half my brain tied behind my back, America's Truth Detector, etc. -- that he would click together to make a broadcast out of. Three hours a day of that, ever day. You always knew exactly where he was going to go before he even came on the air. At the end, he was just chasing the audience. It was all nuts.
Now he's been replaced by even worse people: Hannity (who used to talk about how proud he was to be #2 behind Rush), Levin, Beck, Hewitt, and all the rest. There's such a huge market out there for that stuff that it just keeps going and getting bigger and weirder and more conspiratorial.
This actually happened when I heard Rush on WABC in NY. This would have been within the first couple of years after the station stopped playing Top 40.
A listener was going on and on about "the blacks". Rush actually cut the guy short, and told him that he had no idea what life was like for a black man in the US. He even called the guy "sir" in that typically Rush way where "sir" can actually mean "you're an idiot".
What I resent the most about Rush Limbaugh, apart from everything he ever said, was that he ruined my favorite band's name. People would ask me if I liked Rush and I would explode with enthusiasm about their virtuoso playing and lyrics and the whole zeitgeist until they corrected me about which Rush they meant.
I'm still pissed off about that, tbh.
But he hasn't ruined Renaissance and Baroque music and jazz, so the musical world still contains enough treasures to see you off.
What he ruined was a good song by the Pretenders.
"Try to hold some faith in the goodness of humanity"
;)