So I've finally seen Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Heathers. I wasn't really into Fast Times. It wasn't very engaging, and I didn't care much about any of the characters, and oh my God, I have no idea why Spicoli is so popular. He was so fucking annoying and overdone.

I loved Heathers, though! I could see the influence on Buffy ("What's your damage?") and, well, Mean Girls, obviously, but it still holds up as a great movie today. Funny and dark. And now I finally understand the context for "Fuck me gently with a chainsaw" and "I love my dead gay son."

Ha! I know someone who always goes on about what an awesome person he is, and whenever he's done with his, "and then I rescued some puppies and fed the homeless." I always want to respond, "You're beautiful."

It made that episode where he and Janeway got turned into lizards (or something) and mated a lot less hard to deal with, however.

Not to be pedantic (who am I kidding, this is B.org), but IIRC it was Janeway and Paris, not Janeway and Chakotay, who got devolved into amphibians.

That's also the episode that made me stop watching; I couldn't believe they'd written something that stupid.

As for True Grit, I really enjoyed it. I had to look away for some of the violence, and the snake scene didn't actually work (snakes in hibernation in the winter wouldn't actually do what they did there), but the acting and the language were so great. Such a good movie.

you people are persistent in having me remember every single bit of that episode, aren't you?

I had totally managed to wash it from my mind. Now, it's all coming back. *shudder*

the snake scene didn't actually work

I actually laughed at the snakes. I couldn't help it. I mean, Mattie had been through so much shit already, including falling down into the pit (at which point the entire audience gasped as one), and THEN THERE ARE SNAKES. I mean, enough already.

It's horrible in the original. The snakes might have left her alone if she didn't keep hitting them with that branch!

THEN THERE ARE SNAKES. I mean, enough already.

Indeed. Not to mention that the only way she should have been bit by hibernating snakes is if she landed right on top of them.

Honestly, I can't watch a movie with Jeff Bridges without thinking of him as The Dude for at least the first hour, and True Grit was no exception. (And I think Rooster Cogburn would quite enjoy a frame or two of bowling.)

The only exception, oddly, was in Iron Man. I don't know if it was the bald head, or what, but The Dude never entered my mind.

Oh! Which reminds me! We got a preview for Thor. I may have made Bobby Hill-like squeeing noises and flailed my hands.

How did I never know Hudson Hawk was about people trying to put together da Vinci's Gold Machine? That was really fun! With Bruce Willis infiltrating the Vatican, stealing the Codex, and escaping on a flying machine, it was like a comedy version of Assassin's Creed II. This is not a bad movie! It's a fun movie!

I also watched Demolition Man, which I hadn't seen since I was a kid. I still dig it, although I wish they'd set the utopia further in the future. It would have made more sense.

All movies I watched today (Heathers, Demolition Man, Hudson Hawk) were written or co-written by Daniel Waters. The first and last were directed by Michael Lehmann. Two of them featured Glenn Shadix, whom I recognized as "that guy from Beetlejuice." And, aw, he died just a few months ago.