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I mean, this was a low-budget movie that was more or less meant to be a lighthearted kitschy romp. It's halfway between a Skinemax softcore movie and a Hallmark Channel movie, so of course the sex scenes weren't going to be realistic.
IIRC, the director and the women who appeared in the movie said that it was just a quick project and wasn't intended to be a realistic depiction of lesbian relationships.
The first one looked kinda realistic and the "corny college student" VHS camcorder vibe is the thing that "sold" it more or less. Once again, remember the context of the era it came out in, it was more or less made as a response to The Blair Watch Project from the previous year
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back is more or less meant as an intentionally goofy over-the-top self-parody of View Askew and I'll admit I actually like it.
Clerks 2 was meant as a sort of "grand finale" originally, which is why it's more grounded and focused on Dante and Randal again.
Dogma is the really weird one, and in my opinion is the weakest of the movies.
I'll admit, I like Mallrats more than Chasing Amy but aside from the juvenile humor, I'd consider Mallrats to be in the same "grounded" set of movies as Clerks and Chasing Amy.
Hell, even the slapstick antics and vulgar comedy is grounded in the sense that Brodie and TS are essentially late teenagers/early 20's who are still in the early years of adult life and are more or less overgrown adolescents.
No, the most evil man in history is a toss-up between Jesus, Muhammad, Lenin, Hitler, Mao, or maybe Trotsky.
Caligula doesn't even break the top ten. At best, he's in the top twenty or twenty-five. He's not even the most evil Roman emperor. That would be Theodosius, with Constantine I in a close second.
With guys like Mao, Stalin, Lenin, Constantine I, Augustine of Hippo, Saladin, Hitler, Himmler, Michael Collins, Penny Rimbaud, John Calvin, Marx, Engels, Christopher Hitchens, Huey P. Newton, Herbert W. Armstrong, Cotton Mather, Tecumseh, Whitey Bulger, Eric Harris, and so many others in the historical record, Gaius Caligula has stiff competition for "Most Evil"
Christianity and moral conservatism helped destroy Rome alongside a bloated bureaucracy and a failing economy. Christian morality is an evil morality dedicated to an evil false foreign god and it originated as a heretical Jewish death cult.
Reject Christianity, "traditionalism", and hook-nosed moral conservatism. Embrace paganism (and I mean actual paganism, not that hippie Wicca BS or any Nordicist garbage)
Hail Jupiter, King of the Gods
I think you missed the point of the documentary. This was a look back at the hedonism of the 1970's that was big at the time, and how it felt good in youth, but came back to haunt them, a mix of melancholy and nostalgia.
The movie focused on the gay community because they were the proverbial canary in the coal mine when AIDS came about in the 1980's, largely due to AIDS being a black swan event and gay men being unlucky enough to be the first victims of it when it arrived in the West.
There was a wider cultural zeitgeist of unchecked sexual libertine antics back in the 70's in both the gay and straight communities.
I was there back in '93. Actually tipped Chloe Sevigny a $20 bill and some tickets to a Foghat concert that I won in a radio contest. Never knew she would get famous at the time.
I'm not sure if that was before or after I saw Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend in the theaters in NYC. Probably before.
It's not the same guy. I knew Telly and Casper back in the 90's. Three of us saw Legend of the Overfiend in the theater the night before the events of this documentary happened.
Loved that guro hentai anime, that $hit was so cash.
Telly found the magic cliff from Highlander and then jumped off it to become an immortal.
The power of the Quickening is the best antiviral drug anyone can hope for. It's how Magic Johnson stays alive.
Last I heard, Telly was beefing with Magic Johnson and the Kurgan so he could finally get The Prize.
No, Kids was NOT a movie.
Kids was a documentary and the events happened in real time, just like Mel Gibson's acclaimed 1986 documentary Highlander.
Unless Telly found the magic cliff from Highlander and became immortal like Duncan McLeod, he would've died from catching the AIDS around the early 2000's or so.
Of course, back then they called it the AIDS. Now the proper term is Charlie Sheen's Disease.
I dunno, I think "Baby Can You Dig Your Man" could still work in the new miniseries if they do the song in a contemporary style. The lyrics do come across as a dated 70's pop rock song, but it could also be the kind of thing you'd find in some 2010's indie pop garbage meant as an "ironic" hipster throwback.
Amen to that!
I really do wish Christine Nguyen would do one hardcore video though. Beverly Lynne was an exclusively softcore actress and model, but she did do one hardcore video with her significant other at the time as a gift to her fans. I think Christine could do that.
She mentioned in a recent interview from 2019 that the main reason she doesn't do actual hardcore porn and sticks to being an actress in softcore movies is because of how it could affect her sex life, which is a reasonable concern.
But doing a single hardcore video as a last hurrah for the fans shouldn't have that much of an adverse effect, especially if it's with someone she's in a relationship with.
Indeed, she was the best.
Apparently what Christine Nguyen is now focusing on is writing and directing her own low-budget movies and maybe a TV show, now that Skinemax is dead.
I think the city was rebuilt while the kids were in the Digital World fighting the Dark Masters and Apocalymon but since time flows differently in the real world than it does in the Digital World, the city would have been fully repaired by the time they returned.
Keep in mind that the first season of Digimon was inspired by the old Narnia books by C.S. Lewis, including the weird disparities in time between the two worlds.
Given that her face is rotting away and this is the start of it all, it's possible she died long enough before the event that she wasn't affected by it, her brain may have been too decayed to reanimate.
I always had a theory that the woman committed suicide for some unknown reason shortly before whatever caused the dead to come back and since she lived in the middle of nowhere, nobody knew she was dead, which is why she was rotting upstairs.
If you notice, the zombies in this movie look very fresh. You don't really start to see any signs of decay at all until Dawn of the Dead, which takes place a few days to a few weeks after Night, and by the time of Day of the Dead, the zombies are rotting badly.
"ok boomer"?
Is that the only comeback you've got?
Being a self-hating millennial is a good thing, btw.
From what I understand, Australia was kind of rough in the 70's unlike today, especially in the rural areas of the country. Not as bad as most Third World countries, but definitely not "Sweden with sunshine" either.
Also, this is a fictional movie set in a hypothetical near future. Society hasn't fully collapsed yet like it has in the sequels, but it's starting to fall apart. It's implied that the Australian economy is on the verge of collapse in the first movie and that society is just barely keeping itself together.
Another thing that people forget is that the first Mad Max was inspired by the oil shortages of the 70's and how much strain it placed on the economy in Australia and many other Western nations (including the United States)
I'd rather be a boomer than a snobby millennial hipster
ok millennial
Nah, I was born in 1993. I do find the mention of Saturn to be interesting since I am a Roman polytheist.
What the hell are you smoking and can I have some of it?
What do Jews and an Ancient Roman deity have to do with a horror movie from the 80's?