Bizarre, but charming. I’ll have to look into it.

The 2011 movie was hilariously bad, but if you go in with that expectation and preferably an altered mental state of your choice, it’s actually really fun. It’s begging to be turned into a drinking game or five.

The 2011 Paul W. S. Anderson adaptation (in 3D!), on the other hand, goes so far off the rails so fast that you see a Musketeer-ninja rock a rapid-fire crossbow and pre-Cousteau SCUBA gear I think before you even get to the title card. It’s a stupid, stupid movie and the absolute best kind of terrible, in my opinion.

Though I will say, as I left the theater dizzied by the honest to god airship cannon battle at the end of the film, I looked up the absurd plot and character names only to find that it was significantly more true to the book in overall story arc (ignoring the, ah, embellishments) than many other adaptations have been. Huh.

Meanwhile we’re just waiting until Hegseth accidentally turns a Bethesda-area Target into a smoking crater because he was drunk-Grokking and fucks up ordering an airstrike to cheer himself up after the mainstream librul media hurt his fee-fees.

It really is a special era when people said that fish and gelatins could belong together.

Make sure there are marshmallows and 7-Up in it.

15:33 - Itchy. Tasty.

Generally how I operate too. The key is enriching for me. If you’re a piece of shit who’s alive and collecting royalties, I’ll do everything I can not to add to them. If I already own your creation, I’ll use that instead of streaming/renting/buying. If I don’t, I’ll just find something else.

It’s like when the owners of Chick-Fil-A turned out to be horrendous bigots. Everybody was saying “but there are so many people working there that aren’t homophobic - are you going to hurt them too?” Afraid so. I’m not going to contribute to the success of a hateful person for a fucking chicken sandwich. Working for them is also contributing to the success of those bigots and their efforts in trying to destroy people I love, so I’m afraid I can’t be very sympathetic. The job market for hate needs to have downward pressure on it.