Film — Live Action
Kirk Lazarus: Everybody knows you never go full retard.
Tugg Speedman: What do you mean?
Kirk Lazarus: Check it out. Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man, look retarded, act retarded, not retarded. Counted toothpicks, cheated cards. Autistic, sho'. Not retarded. Then you got Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump. Slow, yes. Retarded, maybe. Braces on his legs. But he charmed the pants off Nixon and he won a ping-pong competition. That ain't retarded. He was a goddamn war hero. You know any retarded war heroes? You went full retard, man. Never go full retard. You don't buy that? Ask Sean Penn, 2001, i am sam. Remember? Went full retard, went home empty-handed.
Tugg Speedman: What do you mean?
Kirk Lazarus: Check it out. Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man, look retarded, act retarded, not retarded. Counted toothpicks, cheated cards. Autistic, sho'. Not retarded. Then you got Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump. Slow, yes. Retarded, maybe. Braces on his legs. But he charmed the pants off Nixon and he won a ping-pong competition. That ain't retarded. He was a goddamn war hero. You know any retarded war heroes? You went full retard, man. Never go full retard. You don't buy that? Ask Sean Penn, 2001, i am sam. Remember? Went full retard, went home empty-handed.
- You're sending virus-laden bandwidth-hogging attachments to every single person you know,
you're passin' 'round a link to some dumb thing on YouTube that everybody else already saw three years ago,
and wacky badly Photoshopped billboards were never that amusing to me,
and I just can't believe you believe those urban legends, but I have high hopes that someone will point you toward Snopes and debunk that crazy junk you're spewing constantly...
Did you know that there's a new family-audience feature film that implies God nuked Japan because one plucky American moppet dared to dream?
—Alan Scherstuhl from The Village Voice
, on the movie "Little Boy"
, on the movie "Little Boy"It’s hard not to see the twin ambitions of Hollywood as utterly at odds with each other. The truth-telling of its nastier side inspired by the real version of history undercuts the earnestness of its wish-fulfillment, making it seem cloying and saccharine. In turn, that earnest part of the show makes its forays into Old Hollywood’s real-world underbelly feel exploitative and cheap. There is too much friction between the two for them to build a cohesive whole, and, as a result, the whole enterprise is compromised at best and condescending at worst.
—Joshua Rivera from The Verge on Hollywood (2020)
on Hollywood (2020)A boy and a girl were driving a car.
Suddenly the boy stopped the car
and asked the girl to step out of the
vehicle, without any explanation.
Suddenly the boy stopped the car
and asked the girl to step out of the
vehicle, without any explanation.
The girl got pissed, removed
all her facebooks and ripped all the photos
all her facebooks and ripped all the photos
The next day the girl heard that the
boy had died, as he had driven into a wall.
boy had died, as he had driven into a wall.
The boy had noticed that there
was a wall in front of them, had
stopped the car, and saved the
girls life, before he had driven into the wall.
was a wall in front of them, had
stopped the car, and saved the
girls life, before he had driven into the wall.
— A memetic image macro◊ from Tumblr
◊ from TumblrWhat is glurge? Think of it as chicken soup with several cups of sugar mixed in: It's supposed to be a method of delivering a remedy for what ails you by adding sweetening to make the cure more appealing, but the result is more often a sickly-sweet concoction that induces hyperglycemic fits. In ordinary language, glurge is the sending of inspirational (and supposedly "true") tales, ones that often conceal much darker meanings than the uplifting moral lessons they purport to offer or undermine their messages by fabricating and distorting historical fact in the guise of offering a "true story".
