Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a CRAZY Movie (almost too crazy) YouTube video by Not Just Any Book Club

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We reviewed the MOVIE Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

One of us liked it at the very least....we are debating putting Justin down for having such bad taste.

What a MEAN film with some EVIL Characters... | Sweet Smell of Success Discussion YouTube video by Not Just Any Book Club

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I get to talk about my favorite dialogue-driven film of all time, Sweet Smell of Success (1957)!

A film with main characters so mean-spirited and evil, that it would make Walter White and Travis Bickle blush.

The Lathe of Heaven is STRANGE (in a good way though!) | Review and Discussion YouTube video by Not Just Any Book Club

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We talked about Ursula K Le Guin's great sci fi novel (novella? so brief and yet so dense) The Lathe of Heaven!

What HAPPENED to The Last of Us Season 2? YouTube video by Not Just Any Book Club

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Anyways we talked about The Last of Us season 2 (HBO) and how much it fumbled the story....some baffling choices were made

my book club is not a book club but a drinking club with a reading problem

Shout out to people who have funny usernames on social media rather than just their first and last name followed by a string of numbers. Variety is the spice of life

Perfect Days is... YouTube video by Not Just Any Book Club

This week we talked about the wonderful movie about a wonderful, simple life: Perfect Days (2023)

Come check it out as we venture through the Criterion Collection!

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What Did Philip K. Dick Mean When He Wrote This? | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Discussion YouTube video by Not Just Any Book Club

We discussed Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick...it was indeed a book that has influenced a lot of sci-fi.

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Why A Woman Under the Influence (1974) is so GREAT! YouTube video by Not Just Any Book Club

We watched and reviewed the classic Criterion film that EVERYONE picks from the Criterion Closet: A Woman Under the Influence!

It is also home to one of the greatest performances put to film. Give it a watch!

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"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school

someone proudly bragged about using AI for their sister's wedding toast

anyways we're screwed

I get sports now. It's about reducing a man to numbers and then making those numbers do imaginary fights in your head.

"if you're scared of public speaking, just imagine everyone in their underwear" hey quick question: what the fuck are you talking about

It turns out it’s always veep and never house of cards

mad how you could pick literally any 2 of these characters and have a weapons-grade team-up

(been a good while since I've done any colouring practise, but when I saw these lines I honestly couldn't help myself!)

The face of Mr. Beast imposed over the cover art for a printing of The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

I've built a city of unbelievable prosperity and delight but the residents don't know it all runs on the constant suffering of a single child. We're gonna tell them!

If they can live with that, they get to stay.

My hot take is that nobody would argue about if e-books or audio books really count as "reading" if everybody involved in the argument didn't see "reading" as a moral virtue as opposed to just a thing you can do like sitting down or folding clothes

Bluesky on Jeopardy, cab ride edition

Now imagine my game yells BALATRO at you on startup but every person has a different pronunciation of Balatro depending on their user ID to sew chaos

Picture of me with folks who were fired from their jobs with USAID and its implementing partners.

Just met with some lovely folks who until recently worked at USAID and their implementing partners. Moving, heartbreaking, and enraging to hear the long-term impacts and wasted potential of our sudden, chaotic abandonment of global health aid.

just had a conversation with someone who thought Jeopardy! was too woke because it's either "ridiculously hard about useless things" and about "pop culture"

which is like the point of trivia lol

st patrick is short for star trek patrick stewart

What. Is. This. Garbage.

Non-toxic dating advice for straight men: don’t take your date to a porno movie or attempt to assassinate the senator she works for

"I'm alive!" said Gatsby, roaring past on a speedboat. He'd faked his own death and gotten away with everything. That's why they called him the Great Gatsby. "Out of the way, current!" he yelled at the water. "This speedboat is bearing me ceaselessly into the future!"

Every time I read The Great Gatsby, the final paragraph brings me to tears. Breathtakingly powerful writing:

My defining mantra to stay creative and interesting in the age of the internet is to "defy algorithms"

Don't let an algorithm define your interests or opinions.

People that try to avoid "politics" in their movies are also bound to have the worst possible taste in movies. That Venn Diagram is just a single circle