Despite the pithy title, this episode is mostly William being angry at HBO Max. Also Tony talks about vampires. And yes, there’s some sandwich construction research talk. Enjoy!
QUESTIONS:
Sandwich construction tips. Go. –Bloodsparrow
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On the subject of fires, some friends of mine are pretty sure their house burned down in the Gender reveal fires.
I was disappointed that HBO Max isn’t on Roku. So we hooked up my boyfriend’s laptop to the TV to watch Lovecraft Country.
We binged all four episodes.
I mean, that’s a criminal thing, right? If your gender reveal party burns down several counties, and a lot of houses, and kills people and stuff… you go to jail for that, right?
One possibly should go to jail for that, but I’m not sure they do. I think it’s similar to the difference between 1st degree murder and involuntary manslaughter- both result in a person being dead, but the related punishment is much different.
Oh, another thing insinuated by Fandome… one thing that’s been popular in the DC comics and TV shows is to take all the different stories that various creators have come up with and combine them in giant crossover “Crisis” events… I think WB thinks that they can do this kind of thing with the films, allowing them to make 2-billion-dollar blockbusters without ever having to have a master plan. Which… that would be rather clever if it could actually work (which I have my doubts that it could).
Time crunch, though. The Crisis events get an episode on each show. Theoretically, they’d only get two hours to tie in 4-5 movies.
But all of it is very uninteresting to me, since they’ll change the plan at the first sign that a single movie didn’t do well enough.
Sandwich Construction Research Fund; S.C.R.F. Or “scarf”
I like that. 😉
Only Lovers Left Alive is a great movie!
I sort of took the meaning to be related to the title. Jarmusch did this kind of inversion of what vampirism usually stands for –a kind of parasitical hedonistic narcissism — and says that instead what makes the main characters continue to live is their attachment to each other and others who are important to them.
I mean, the title was not lost on me in that last scene, yes. 🙂
I think Eve’s speeches chiding Adam throughout were what stuck with me hardest. The idea of WHY a vampire keeps going. As someone who has been so bombarded with the trope (vampires) during my life, it was interesting on its own, for sure.
But I feel like it *probably* wasn’t a movie just to make a statement about vampires. I’m sure I’m supposed to draw connects to humanity. And I can, but only in really obvious, banal ways.
To be honest, though, although I enjoy them, I’m pretty sure I never really “get” Jarmusch films. 🙂
Yeah, I kinda took that to be the message about humans if one thinks of contemporary society encouraging everyone to be vampiric in that narcissistic hedonist way. I take that “human connection” message away from almost all his movies, though dressed up in other ways. 🙂
So kind of older, more bitter Wachowski mainstays. 🙂
The PBJ method William describes sounds tasty, I’ll give it a try. Also, you two should obviously refer to this as the Wright Way to make a PBJ.