Taxi Driver isn't a bad movie. It's a movie you don't like. Those are two completely different things, and people on this sub REALLY need to start using those two completely different concepts correctly.

It's OK just to say you don't like something. There are plenty of works of art which are universally considered to be great which I just don't care for. But that doesn't make them bad, it just means I don't appreciate them as much as other people, and that's OK.

I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.

That's a great example of being lost in Asia in the middle of an American city. If you haven't read the book, it expands a lot more on the background stuff which I found really interesting, especially in historical context of 30 years ago when it was predicted that Japan would soon be the dominant global power, at least culturally and economically.

Also the premise of the movie is actually quite topical, even if the technology is dated, as it revolves around essentially a deepfake.

Frank dying, and the Gang then having to deal with that, planning his funeral and the typical things that TV episodes of this nature have, except subverted as is tradition with the show. Dee and Dennis trying to get his DNA because the Jew Lawyer, obviously the executor of Frank's estate, tells them that since they're not his real kids they're not going to inherit everything. Charlie likewise trying to do the same to prove that he is Frank's son to get his hands on the money. Throw Franquito into the mix as well.

Bokeem Woodbine was fucking hilarious. The fucking hand exercises killed me.

So many great quotes from that movie. Definitely worth a watch.

People have often made a similar statement how awesome a Sleeping Dogs movie would have been, but in reality, no, it wouldn't. The game is likewise a pastiche of major HK triad movies and themes, it would be extremely derivative. They're clever and fresh when you're not aware of them, but if you've watched a lot of movies from a given genre of film, not so much.

Yeah, it's pretty low, especially for a male having vaginal sex with an infected female.

What was really shocking to me is that when I was growing up just as the AIDS epidemic really took off in the 80s, I was under the impression that heterosexual transmission was extremely high, to the point where if you had sex with an infected person it was basically a death sentence. When I read actual transmission statistics decades later I was surprised that they're actually that low, relatively speaking to what I thought they were before.

IIRC a lot of this came from men infected with HIV that wanted to keep the fact they have sex with other men secret, so they attributed catching it to some unnamed female prostitute, and this skewed transmission statistics in M-F sex.

When I was 9 my parents let me watch a 007 movie on ABC, which apparently was the conclusion of an ongoing argument since I was six, with my dad wanting to watch James Bond with me, and my mom being categorically against it. When I was 12 he took me to see Total Recall, which as it turned out was the most violent movie ever made to date.

There is also Shadow of the Vampire (2000), a fictional retelling of the production of the film, with Willem Defoe and John Malkovich.

I started watching this season again after probably 15? years of not really watching it, and it's not bad.

"Are you despising me?"

Yeah, I had a similar experience. I was still a little kid when Cheers started and didn't really start watching it until the Rebecca years, and I greatly enjoyed the show. I then started watching the older reruns with Diane and I didn't find it quite as good as the later one.

I see your point, the difference between 2022 and 1982 isn't as great as the difference between 1982 and 1942, but where do we draw the line?

Does the 60s qualify as a period piece? The 40s? It's a matter of semantics really, but if we're going to get into a semantic argument, there should be some definition of it.

I found myself enjoying it a lot more than I expected. But I liked the more standalone nature of the original better, this one has too much of the present day plotline going on, you can't just jump into the show, you have to watch it from the start to keep up.

Early to mid 90s it was still pretty good. While less music, the programming was watchable. Liquid TV, Beavis & Butthead, early seasons of Real World, etc. But second half of the 90s it really started to go downhill.