rob64

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[–] rob64@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Oh that Count of Monte Cristo is so fun. I wouldn't have thought of it just now, but I do find myself moved to rewatch it every so often.

[–] rob64@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Haven't got a sensible name, Calloway.

[–] rob64@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Family Man as in Nicholas Cage/Tia Leoni? That's up there with Secondhand Lions for movies I was not expecting to see in this thread.

[–] rob64@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, the year of "There Will Be Old Men". But seriously, I agree, but probably in reverse order. No Country may actually be my all-time favorite now that I think about it.

[–] rob64@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yes. The characters are so great. John C. Reilly's character especially. And Tom Cruise was never more appropriately cast.

[–] rob64@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Man if a movie was ever prescient...

[–] rob64@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's how I feel about ads targeting children (even when the products are intended for children): they are not yet equipped to look at the ads critically and recognize when they're being manipulated.

[–] rob64@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Yes! I remember when they first introduced it and I had to make sure I wasn't hallucinating that the cursor was blowing up.

[–] rob64@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

You must mean plane-et.

[–] rob64@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah it makes perfect sense once you realize there are almost no lone consonant phonemes in Japanese.

[–] rob64@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The idea of specifically choosing motorcycle as your Costco mode of transport is hilarious, but I suppose panniers beat lugging a bunch of bags on a train. Also, my brother did a foreign exchange program in Okinawa when he was in high school, and I'm often reminded of how he said his host-father pronounced Costco as "Co-su-tu-co".

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