David Bax

You don’t know you’re so money, that’s what makes you so money

The One Where I Met Your Mother: Season Eight, Episode Five: “The One with Rachel’s Date”/”The Autumn of Breakups” battleshippretension.com/the-one-wher...

Favorite new-to-me movies, July 2025:

Buck Privates
Bunny Lake Is Missing
El
Night of the Juggler
Stroszek

Labubu is what a French person calls a small injury

So me to quit smoking right before cigarettes become cool again

“It’s all for you, Jeffrey!”

So, my question is, where do normal-ass Angelenos go these days for a night out on the town? The bars at CityWalk used to be open till 2am! Or do people just not do that anymore? Is it a post-Covid thing? Is it a "young people don't drink anymore" thing? Feeling way out of touch with the world rn

My wife and I saw Superman at CityWalk last night (great movie). We wanted to get a drink afterward but found out that all of CityWalk closes at 10pm now (and those are extended summer hours even!) We had a similar experience a while back after a show in Hollywood...

One of the wrongest but most persistently repeated bits of general cultural wisdom is that analyzing or deconstructing comedy ruins it. Comedy is art and deserves the same level of thought and critique as any other art form!

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Diciannove: The joke of this movie is that the desire to “feel seen” exists even among people who are just the worst

You know, after the episode, I realized that was the better needle drop and I should’ve mentioned it

The One Where I Met Your Mother: Season Eight, Episode Four: “The One with the Videotape”/”Who Wants to Be a Godparent” battleshippretension.com/the-one-wher...

Either of these movies would make a good companion piece to All Light, Everywhere

Between this and The Perfect Neighbor (which is supposed to be coming to Netflix later this year), the everything-is-recorded nature of our present world is crashing into cinema in a stark way

2000 Meters to Andriivka is an astonishing achievement. Manages to make essentially a thrilling war genre picture out of an almost entirely found footage documentary while also cracking the code of how to make an anti-war thrilling war genre picture

I hope this movie makes $200 million or whatever is considered a lot for a movie these days

The Naked Gun (2025): Fuckin’ home run, man

What are some good songs about getting a cool shoeshine?

Please miss me with those “Donald Trump has a revulsion to suffering” takes

The Sparrow in the Chimney: You might have to revoke my arthouse provocateur fan club card because this sucks. Been awhile since I’ve felt this out of step with the rest of cinephelia. The only thing the movie provoked in me was mocking chuckles

“Left-leaning” is a euphemism for closet conservative

TIFF 2023: Shoshana, by David Bax battleshippretension.com/tiff-2023-sh...

34. To Kill a Wolf (Kelsey Taylor)

Home Video Hovel: You Can Count on Me, by Rudie Obias battleshippretension.com/home-video-h...

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons In The Park

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There are literally no Billy Joel songs that are good but somehow they’re all better than “We Didn’t Start the Fire”

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I would win the Long Walk easily