Breaking In The Habit

The 90s were a great decade. The world moved on from the Cold War, Nickelodeon ruled television, Beanie Babies were a solid investment, boy bands were all the rage, Harry Potter made reading fun, and Tom Hanks, the nicest man in Hollywood, was everywhere. It was a great decade to grow up.

In a decade packed with blockbusters and iconic hits, picking the greatest movie is a difficult task. Luckily, Fr. Tito and I are here to help you. In our season finale of Everyday Liminality, we invite fellow Franciscan Aaron Richardson to the show to battled it out.

For more fun, we encourage you to print the bracket below before listening and see how well you do!

Such is the story that Aaron Sorkin seeks to retell in the 2017 Molly’s Game, a story of a real-life woman who faced her own witch hunt. Although Molly game was poker, not the occult, her experience is the same.

If you grew up watching The Goonies like Fr. Tito did, it has a special place in your heart. It’s a childhood adventure of going out on your own, finding buried treasure, and saving your family’s livelihood. There is excitement and intrigue, camaraderie, and even a little teenage romance. For a preteen in the 1980s, it was the ultimate film.

If you didn’t see the movie until you were in your late teens and it’s already the early 2000s… the feeling might be a bit different. That was my experience of the movie, and while I don’t “hate” it–it’s still a well-made movie and, at times, very charming, I just don’t have the love for it that the cult following would expect.

It is that disparity that Fr. Tito and I set out to discuss in this week’s Everyday Liminality. Is is nostalgia? Is it that certain things age differently than others? Is it that you have to be a certain age to appreciate something? Most likely a bit of it all.

Tired of election coverage at this point? Looking for a more optimistic view of the political world? You might be interested in the 1993 movie, Dave, the story of a presidential look-alike who agrees to stand in for the president but gets more than he bargained for. When the real president has a stroke, advisors in his inner circle use the look-alike as a surrogate, attempting to lead through a puppet. Only, they picked the wrong guy with too much on his mind to do what they want.

Optimistic, wholesome, and entirely unrealistic, Dave is a great escape from our current world, and an inspiring take on how politics could work.