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I went to see Spaceballs with my mom at the theater in the Northampton Mall in western MA. My grandparents lived way out in the mountains around there and my mom used to take me to the mall to get a break from the rest of the family craziness.

That mall also had a really amazing arcade. I remember playing Punch Out on the day we went to see Spaceballs.

I don't think anything could actually ruin that for me, even if it's awful. Even a CGI puppet of Barf.
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Heads of State, starring John Cena and Idris Elba. Since it's from the same director as Hardcore Henry and Nobody, I expected it to be good fun. And it was.
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vol.2 wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 6:06 pm I went to see Spaceballs with my mom at the theater in the Northampton Mall in western MA. My grandparents lived way out in the mountains around there and my mom used to take me to the mall to get a break from the rest of the family craziness.

That mall also had a really amazing arcade. I remember playing Punch Out on the day we went to see Spaceballs.

I don't think anything could actually ruin that for me, even if it's awful. Even a CGI puppet of Barf.
Sounds great, and there's no reason why that cherished memory should be tainted by some stupid cashgrab 40 years later. Not sure anyway why people think that films are in some way ruined if they're remade or if there are bad sequels, particularly if the newer film wasn't made by the original team. Ghost in the Shell and Alita (the US films) were forgettable trash (what a surprise), but that doesn't change the fact that the original texts are wonderful.
Not too sorry to see they finally gave up on the Akira live version though...
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Yeah I'm 100% for the new Ghostbuster movies that I don't like.

The nostalgia trap isn't something you have to participate in, you can always try something new to try to stimulate the neurons. Like everyone always says when someone starts talking about Harry Potter, you can read a different book.

All the weird fan content that's grown around dead franchises like The Simpsons and Garfield is a million times better than any microwaved corpo slop would be able to capture. Lasagna Cat is wonderful. The Bartkira project was wonderful.

Or you can stick with old catfood of course. Here's an Alien that is also a Predator. The M3GAN franchise, which are basically much more pertinent and relevant kind of Terminator movies to the near future we have to look forward to, is just too new right. The neurons hate new(ish) things.
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BryanM wrote: Thu Jul 03, 2025 4:44 pmBartkira project was wonderful.
ty. got a lot of Bartkira to read lol.


The neurons hate new(ish) things.
I have come to discover, over my life, that if I don't get new things then I get bored and depressed.

That doesn't mean I don't fall into the nostalgia trap or anything; I think we're all just wired that way. It's also hard for me to onboard to new things, but I get a kind of renewal or refresh out of the experience that I'm quite drawn to. It feels kind of like hitting a wall when I'm jogging and it's hard, but I know it will feel good when I push through. That, only mentally I guess. Hope that makes some kind of sense.
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