Obligatory plug for their Phantom Menace review series, which clocks in as long as the actual prequel trilogy, but is phenomenally funny and complex. Probably the best review series for any media that I’ve ever seen, if you can stomach some of the crude jokes.
I’m with you on the mystifying circumstances surrounding creating a quality movie. My wife and I were talking about the mid nineties and some of the pop culture arising then:
- Movies like Pulp Fiction, Jurassic Park, Fargo, Trainspotting, Independence Day
- Albums in punk rock, but also the greats of hip hop: Nas, Biggie, Tupac, Big L, Jay Z started to arise.
- Books like Game of Thrones, Fight Club, Into the Wild, Neverwhere
Not to say that we don’t have good pop culture these days, but it’s no wonder that the Hollywood movie industry is dying a slow death, right in the public eye.
