Institutions require employees to take cartoonish, ill informed cybersecurity training that either falls on deaf ears or preaches to the choir. Then they pay $100s of thousands to Instructure to expose them to a cybersecurity breach that crashes the system mid-finals and
Fall Festival Movies Ranked by Metacritic Score (10/13/24)
1. All We Imagine As Light: 93
2. No Other Land: 93
3. Anora: 90
4. Nickel Boys: 90
5. Familiar Touch: 89
6. The Brutalist: 88
7. April: 88
8. To a Land Unknown: 87
9. Hard Truths: 86
10. The Wild Robot: 85
My contribution to the Donald Sutherland lovefest is THE EAGLE HAS LANDED and EYE OF THE NEEDLE. In the former, a charming rogue doing something pretty bad, in the latter, a psychopath who either falls in love or pretends to. He’s fireicondotgif in both capers
What would be worse? Sitting for ten minutes listening to Michigan and USC fans talk about the importance of their football traditions, or ten minutes in a room w/ Jason the hockey-masked machete-killer from Friday the 13th?
I'd say Jason, but if you upped it to twenty . . .
@jfkenney Yes, the Towne script is terrific. I sometimes wonder if it would reach transcendent classic if a Polanski type directed it (see also: The Two Jakes), but it's an intelligent love triangle and all the characters are smart and conflicted. I've seen it many times.
You know that old saying, you can't judge a book by its cover? What if it's cover is made of boogers?
(Joke I submitted to Nickelodeon in 1988 and am still waiting to hear back about.)
@thedavewain there is a lot in this movie that Chevy does that suggests an alternate career where he plays dark, amoral conmen who are put in situations where they have a soul. but it's the same year as VACATION, and he went the goofy route. probably best but didn't age past the 80s.