Watching Is It College Yet? was a fun walk down memory lane, like returning to an old friend. I always saw a lot of myself in Daria as a kid, and I’m not entirely disappointed to find that I still see a lot of myself in her, even if the edges of my eternal cynicism have dulled a bit. Some stories are timeless, even if the music does change.
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Daria in 'Is It Fall Yet?' 2000
Daria was my favorite TV show when I was a kid, but I’ve avoided revisiting it for eleven years because I was afraid it wouldn’t hold up the farther away from my adolescence I got. Well, I was wrong: it’s still fresh even in my middle age, and despite my own emotional maturation, I relate to Daria more than ever. The show and this movie might not truly be perfect, but it’s honest. Daria’s innocent relationship with Tom still makes…
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Johnny Mnemonic 1995
Jesus Christ, this movie is terrible. A few years ago I worked for a film studio that hosted its own informal version of Mystery Science Theatre 3000; this movie would have been a strong entry to that club. This was one of the first DVDs I ever bought; I watched the movie once, but it was too terrible even for teenaged me to ever watch again (until now, which I am christening The Year of Johnny Mnemonic). There are some…
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Willow 1988
Willow, this is war, not agriculture.
Willow is from a time when George Lucas was going through a divorce and needed money, so he made Howard the Duck, but that just got him further in the hole, so he made Willow and sold Lucasfilm’s Computer Graphics Division to Steve Jobs, who also needed something to do after getting fired from Apple. And somehow Willow got him out of the hole. Somehow. This movie features terrible acting combined with a terrible…
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