the dopamine fiend

Enemy is a real good one. Hope you’re OK with spiders, though.

Taymor’s Titus still blows my mind. I recommend it to everybody.

Somehow, JNCO has returned.

Guardians of the Galaxy, vol. 3

I’d been wondering if the MCU would drop an F bomb before they retro-canonized Deadpool and Logan. In this and many, many other ways, GotG3 seemed to really push what you could get away with under a PG-13 rating.

There’s an authoritarian theme to it all. They believe their god to be all-powerful and all-just. Therefore, that god must reward good actions and punish bad ones. The reward that our global society seems to run the most on is money. Therefore, any actions that gain you a lot of money must be good actions, thereby justifying the means of capitalism.

Prosperity theology, they call it.

The just-world hypothesis plays a big part.

Some favorites from my younger days I haven’t seen mentioned yet:

• Titus
• All Tomorrow’s Parties
• Russian Ark
• RoboCop
• Renegade Blueberry

Nice try, middle schoolers have been pulling this on each other since time immemorial.