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Right near Mayor's Income

Sure seems like the same guy who goes Bourne in Pylos & the palace. O is a badass who'll lie & be ruthless, but feels bad about it sometimes, in Troy, on Ogygia, and when killing suitors. Sad badass isn't 2 notes, especially in 2026.

TBH already I didn't trust Bernie personnel-wise (he was, after all, an early supporter of the ogre we're talking about), and now I trust Warren less. They cared more about getting another anti-Schumer vote in the Senate than about the risks of endorsing that guy. Bad call.

Yeah, people seem to have decided that the magic word "adaptation" relieves a director from all obligation to make a good movie. She says Damon is 1-dimensional, I have yet to see anyone even try to argue, so instead they try to say that she's complaining that he's not the character in her mind.

Incidentally, I can't help but suspect that part of her snark (her term) is that Nolan did name-check her, and I saw ppl literally ascribing the dialogue to her*. If somebody very publicly associated me with a movie I disliked, I don't think I'd keep it to myself! *I have no idea what they meant

The actual worst: if you liked this movie, you're dumb/tasteless/morally inferior (I'm not sure many online people can even distinguish among those things anymore).

Fetterman's a piece of shit, and I really hope other Dems don't adopt this language. But you know who will? Republicans. And that's a weapon handed them by Katz & Bernie & Warren (and Platner, not that I think he cares in the least).

I have recalibrated to assume that the car 2 back from the intersection when the light turns yellow will continue through after it turns red. Not literally true, but the only safe assumption.

"It is Mankind's obligation to verify secondary sources on the Tree of Liberty." - Thomas Jefferson.

Permanent, substantial decline in alcohol consumption in the US. One-third drop, I want to say?

Like I've been saying, cars have just gotten too expensive.

One of his chief epithets is ptoliporthos, "Sacker of cities." It's absolute nonsense to say that the fall of Troy is new to him. It's certainly possible to say that, for whatever reason, this seemed different or whatever, but Nolan doesn't, and now ppl are backfilling on his behalf.

I think there's more polite throat-clearing up front, and the discussion of nested narrative is sort of thoughtfully academic, while Wilson is pretty blunt from the start. But I agree she's not remotely out of line—rereading her intro, it could be Ebert or any other (male) film critic.

It's the category error of treating the AI composition as equivalent to an underling's composition. The latter just needs a once-over for tone & typos, bc the underling (presumably) knows what they're doing. But the AI product needs a full edit, like a new intern wrote it. But full edits take time.

"A fine is a price" yes, and sometimes the price is too high.

It is incredible to me how few voices from the old Netroots still have anything of value to say.

The Greeks sacked literally a dozen cities during the 10 years before Troy. The inciting incident of the Iliad is when Agamemnon has to return a girl enslaved after one sacking, and so takes from Achilles a girl enslaved after another sacking.

You inspired me to go find it, and you're right: albeit in more judicious tones, it’s an almost identical critique, and it’s also the one I came to Sunday. Nolan uses almost nothing of Homer, and what he has to say could be covered in a brief essay. But nobody called Mendelssohn “translator guy.”

anyway ultimately I am nostalgic (lol!) for the phase of discourse where every take I saw on the film was generative & revelatory in its difference & an occasion for more conversation, & that included Wilson's essay, & it's been really bumming me out to see anyone suggest she should talk less

What did I tell you guys