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Tuesday, June 23, 2026 3:05 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Seriously...

Who directed this movie?

Unless the movie itself is FAR better than I'm giving it credit before a rewatch, everybody involved in making this move was way above it.

I dunno... Maybe I have to see Can't Hardly Wait again.



Cute story, actually... It honestly wouldn't surprise me if you told me the two directors wrote each other's bios on IMDB. It also wouldn't surprise me from looking at their bio pictures if they didn't have their own nerdy guy gets the cute girl trope story of their own to tell and maybe that's what Can't Hardly Wait actually was.

Looks like a husband/wife duo both wrote and directed Can't Hardly Wait as well as Josie and the Pussycats and another movie I never heard of. I never saw anything else that either of them did, so I can't really compare their work here to anything else they've done, but I'm kind of curious to see now if they were directing the scenes this good or if the actors themselves are due more of the credit here.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

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Tuesday, June 23, 2026 3:43 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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It was a horrible mistake rewatching "10 Things I Hate About You" over 20 years later, but I held that movie in stupidly high regard and I just cringed my way through that rewatch because of it. That's pretty rough when you don't know whether you're more angry at yourself for liking a piece of crap that much and telling people that you did over the years, or realizing that you ruined the good memory of something you saw with somebody you used to know and you held in high regard only because of the company you enjoyed it with by watching it again, alone, decades later.



I had originally wrote that last sentence to read "watching it alone again decades later", which did not reflect reality and need to be rewritten to what you see above.

But it did make me think of another really good song.



I'll bet if anybody ever put it to a vote, it has to be, by far, the absolute happiest song about suicide ever performed.

Maybe twenty or thirty years from now when the US legalizes it like Canada did and puts it in the very capable and trustworthy hands of the medical profession, they'll dust this fossil off and play it in their commercial breaks on FOX News and MSNOW. The "Suicide Hotline" commercials sitting right in between the life insurance and boner pill ads.

Hey... Maybe by the time I'm of retirment age, we can even have government programs that promise to start up a 529 IRA for a grand kid in your name if you do it. The younger you are and the less Social Security you take from the shrinking pot, the larger the initial contribution from Uncle Sam.

Isn't that really, the logical conclusion to all of this? Get the kids and the grand kids to secretly or maybe sometimes even not so secretly wish that grandma and grandpa would just do it "for the children"?

I wouldn't worry about it. That's in The Future.

For now, all you gotta do is just hum along and not pay any attention to any of the words.




"He's the one, who likes all our pretty songs, and he likes to sing along, and he likes to shoot his gun, but he knows not what it means... knows not what it means... and I say yeah........"

Kurt knew what's up.




Talk about some great lyrics. The few there are leave you wanting more.

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Tuesday, June 23, 2026 5:19 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Hey... Maybe by the time I'm of retirment age, we can even have government programs that promise to start up a 529 IRA for a grand kid in your name if you do it. The younger you are and the less Social Security you take from the shrinking pot, the larger the initial contribution from Uncle Sam.

Isn't that really, the logical conclusion to all of this? Get the kids and the grand kids to secretly or maybe sometimes even not so secretly wish that grandma and grandpa would just do it "for the children"?

I wouldn't worry about it. That's in The Future.





I'm tellin' ya, Jaynez... I saw you never replied to my posts about Wild in the Streets, but I think in a few ways that is one hell of an underrated gem of a 60's B movie. I've only known about for less than 2 months and I'd never heard anybody but my dad ever talk about it. He knows it was not what would be considered a good movie by the mainstream and told me before we started we could turn it off if I wasn't enjoying it, but I stuck around for the ride. Sometimes with the right company, watching things like this that took place a decade or two before you were born can be a really cool insight that you never otherwise would have gotten.

I bring the movie up here because I'm sure that I can't discount the fact I saw it maybe 6 weeks ago as at least contributing somewhat to my thoughts tonight.

How can I say this...

Wild in the Streets is to Logan's Run as B-Movie Brave New World is to B-Movie 1984.

The general tone differences match the books as well, but upon re-reading that I just couldn't bring myself to put either of those movies on the same level as the books, even just for the sake of discussion...



Yeah...

That's probably the perfect review for it.

And if I see anybody put that on the box cover and I don't get my cut, do expect to see myself playing my own lawyer against you in court.

I warn you though... I'm as stubborn as my grandpa was and I've got nearly infinitely more free time than he ever did.



I was posting about Wild in the Streets around the first week of May in this thread: http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=36&tid=64288&p=6

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