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[fervid_dryfire]

To those of you who recently made a post remembering 9/11- regardless of whether it was to say "never forget," "f- the surveillance state," "I want our rights back," "we lost/wasted a lot of blood and treasure in 20 years of war," or some other thought- I thank you; and as long as you didn't say something stupid like "hooray terrorism!" or "long

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[kharmii]

I remember cancelling Hulu and Epic to budget in Prime. I never thought I'd be one of those people who got stuff in the mail all the time, but getting the bulk snacks and endless loop of store credit makes the money back. It's just that one has to be careful of being gouged, like there might be one good deal and a hundred other vendors trying to rip you off. Comparing Wal-Mart prices is helpful.

I loved all those Batman's, especially the Jim Carrey Riddler with Two Face as the other villain. I'll have to watch that with the kids. There's one movie that didn't age well....we got to the awkward dinner scene a half hour into Edward Scissorhands before shutting it off. That movie sucked back then. Why would it be better now? -And the message is even more ominous considering how the world is with out-of-control migration and homeless people shitting on the sidewalks in every major city. Summary: There's this cute AVON lady in the white bread town where everybody lives in a pastel house, but she isn't having any luck selling anything. She ventures up to the creepy mansion on a hill where she finds some retarded weirdo living by himself sleeping in a pile of leaves in the attic where half the roof is torn off. He has blades for hands, so he can't even wipe his own ass or jerk off when he's lonely, but he sure could partly decapitate someone if he wanted. She takes him home, gives him clothes, and watches him become smitten over the photograph of her teenaged daughter hanging over the fireplace. Meanwhile, there's a paranoid Christian shut-in in the neighborhood who has a big frownie-face watching this guy get paraded around because it's supposed to be a feel-good movie about embracing people different from you.

[fervid_dryfire]

Jim Carrey stole the show as Riddler, I think...Tommy Lee Jones would have/could have been a much better Two Face (as good as the Two Face in The Dark Knight perhaps), but I think the writer or director wanted him to be a 2-dimensional villain (or merely second fiddle to Riddler), so we got what we got.

I remember the writer- or director or producer, or *some*body important- saying that Edward Scissorhands was a story addressing how children cope with growing up; especially with respect to how kids tend to fidget with their hands when they don't know what else to do in a given situation. So, a "kid" with scissors for hands draws attention to that tendency to fidget and gives it a lot more significance and drama so that people will think and talk about that particular topic more.

Personally I think it's a good concept for a short film or maybe a single scene in a movie, but I don't think a *whole movie* was necessary! I didn't think it was bad, but I do hesitate when I think about when/if I'd watch it again with the kids. I think I'd allow them to watch Beetlejuice before Edward Scissorhands, if that tells you anything.