Death to Smoochy is such a good movie. It was just terribly marketed.

My friend Garrett Gilchrist has bee trying to restore that movie to something closer to Morton and Jankel’s original vision for years now. I keep meaning to watch it because I do think that the movie had a lot of good ideas even if it was a mess.

https://archive.org/details/super-mario-bros-1993-the-morton-jankel-cut-extended-vhs_202207

People also forget that what most Americans knew about Mario at the time was that he jumped on mushrooms and turtles to rescue the princess.

But Morton and Jankel made both versions of the Max Headroom TV series. I absolutely give them credit.

I really do not know why Dredd didn’t get a sequel. I thought it did pretty well in theaters.

I love every stupid minute of SolarBabies.

“You are Chikani!” is one of my favorite badly-delivered bad movie lines.

If you have not heard the episode of How Did This Get Made about it, you should definitely give it a listen: https://www.earwolf.com/episode/solarbabies-live/

You are not the first person I have read say it about that movie, so I am definitely going to have to check it out.

That movie is so highly underrated.

The Hamlet trailer is worth watching it for alone.

Breakfast of Champions - I don’t care if it totally bastardized Vonnegut, I really liked it.

Mystery Men - Again, I don’t care if it totally bastardized Bob Burden.

Titan AE

The female version of Ghostbusters.

Zardoz.

Hackers. Fuck you if you say one bad thing about this movie. It is glorious.

Hey, I called it.

Oh, well if there’s a rumor…

Also, “Hamashiach” means the exact same thing that “Christ” means- “messiah.” It wasn’t his name. His name would have been his name and then the name of his father, like any Jew. And since people didn’t generally agree with him on who he claimed his father was, he would have been Yeshua bin Yosef.

Incidentally, if you are going to go with Hamashiach as his title, it means “anointed one” (as does messiah). You know who else has been anointed by holy oil? Donald Hamashiach Trump.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Jesus_(TV_series)

That’s a ridiculous claim.

Here’s a picture of Jesus’ baptism from Normandy, painted in 1185.

Plenty of others here: https://smarthistory.org/standard-scenes-from-the-life-of-christ-in-art/

Europeans tended to paint Jesus as white because they didn’t understand there were no photos or movies or TV around, so someone in Norman France didn’t know there was an alternative possibility.

People also think that Jesus was all love and light and goodness because they ignore or don’t know about the other parts about Jesus.

Like when he says, just two verses after the famous John 3:16 verse, that you worship him or go to hell:

18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son

Then there’s him being super racist:

21 Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22 A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.”

23 Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.”

24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”

25 The woman came and knelt before him. “Lord, help me!” she said.

26 He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”

Mark 15:21-28

Or when he says in Matthew 19 that you can only divorce a woman (and, of course, a woman can’t divorce a man) if she’s cheating on you, essentially condoning domestic violence:

8 Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. 9 I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”

There’s more where that came from.

I’m sure some Christian would be happy to come in here and hand wave it all away with being out of context or misinterpreted or whatever. And yet quoting the Bible out of context happens every time they go to their church and they have no issues.

People most often praise Jesus for the Golden Rule. He didn’t invent it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule#Ancient_Egypt

I wouldn’t call either of those family-friendly. The Simpsons more so though.

A vast amount of it used to be Mexico.

Or, you know, the thousands of other languages that existed.

Sorry, distilling everything indigenous down to the Cherokee is a pet peeve of mine.

Still the same guy, but the Firesign Theater suggested decades ago that the country be called Vespucciland.

And yeah, we name everything else after people’s last names.

Then what would they have to complain about?

I was probably using computers when you were still in your mom’s ovaries. My first one was an Apple ][+ in 1982.

Starving yourself to lose weight works. It’s also stupid.

You caught me!