almost immediately we three interns came to the realization that our wide and varied media tastes align pretty fucking nicely. since our second week here we've been having regular movie nights, where we set up a laptop on the kitchen table, snuggle into the futon with some air-popped popcorn and a pipe of Old Toby's finest leaf, and let Hollywood hit us in the face again and again.
Tara picked first: a comedy by the Napoleon Dynamite people called Gentlemen Broncos (2009), a gem which should be seen by anyone who has ever written or been a fan of sci-fi and genre fiction. we followed that up with Predator (1987) featuring commentary by Christopher Lawson. by film three it was easy to see where this all was going: Aliens (1986), Starship Troopers (1997), a fieldtrip to the Peterborough Cineplex to suffer through Prometheus (2012), and last week a look back at when Ridley Scott knew how to make movies with Legend (1985).
tonight, obviously, it's Independence Day (1996).
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