Since there’s an allusion to Percy Shelley’s poetry I’d assume it’s trying to nod to the origin story of the novel….but it feels like you could also read a romantic insinuation about Mary’s life into it

The ending quote made me mad??

i can only watch half of this tonight but so far i am thinking entirely about this

who will be brave enough to run the headline "nintendo confirms ZeLink are friends (with benefits)"

It’s become a meme (born out of reality) about the NYTs cherry-picked interviews with supposedly normal Americans as if Ohio diners are where median middle class reasonable common sense down to earth fiscally conservative socially liberal people eat (and they always affirm NYTs conservative stances)

girl in front of us is annoyed her friend was making a joke about using ai cus she got a text from a friend that was “obviously chat gpt” and called it a cult so if NJT is my Ohio Diner I think we might be ok (we are still waiting to get back into Secaucus a second time)

Conductor just said “Secaucus Junction will be next — aaagain” how’s your day goin

reread the walter chaw review, which did substantially more for me than the movie filmfreakcentral.net/2025/05/kara...

love how the lyrics of the end song sound like a boomer ranting about the immigrant the main character is

it does gesture towards the underlying conceit of competing masculinities but what little is there is defanged from the critique of the US. like you could kinds see the Bad Guy whose name i don't remember was maybe a stand in for manosphere shit but it doesn't actually do aaaaaaaaanything with him.

it's better than Literally-Not-Karate Kid but the action is back half of Cobra Kai choreography. And it's script relies on nostalgia and knowledge of what expectations its mixing up to appreciate. I feel too young for the actual audience and too old for the intended.

would pay for a good comparison that breaks down why so much more story happens in The Karate Kid than in Legends (both about the script/editing but also like, the conditions these movies are created under and to what end)

Don’t want to think about history or emotion or embodied experiences or ambiguity or god forbid something they didn’t already know when they started listening/watching (don’t think there’s a lot of reading going on)

wild people are in here like they don’t get a million product reviews of every aaa game they already care about. maybe people just like being convinced to buy something!