Профиль

*Norman Rockwell "Freedom of Speech" guy* We will never push people into a more liberationist worldview by giving them stuff to read. "But the Communist Manifesto is only 30 pages!" Dear comrade, they have to splitscreen 30 second TikToks with footage of roller coasters to hold people's attention.

Send Help, for sure. Sam Raimi's still got it.

At some point, a storyteller confronted with more material than could possibly fit into their story has to narrow their aperture and find their story, the one they can tell. You can lament that there are other stories that should be told, but that doesn't mean this particular storyteller is wrong.

I don't especially care what Stephen King thinks of Stanley Kubrick's movie version of The Shining. I have my reasons for liking it, King has his reasons for disliking it, I respect his frame of reference while acknowledging that it is utterly independent from my own. Anyway, about The Odyssey...

Yup.

Before I left TikTok, I saw a video someone took of a guy in an airport (filmed nonconsensually, obvi) who had a wedding ring on and was pinch-zooming on a picture of a woman in a bikini on Instagram. Comments were full of people saying that anyone who could identify the guy should notify his wife.

Nephew Whacking The Hell Out Of Tree Trunk With Stick

Would the Odyssey be better if it were about the victims at Troy instead of Odysseus? Would Oppenheimer be better if were about Hiroshima instead of Oppenheimer? Would Batman be better if it were about purse snatchers and jewel thieves living with chronic injuries? Would Taxi Driver be better if it

In an 11-second scene from The Fast and the Furious (2001), a car explosion is showcased through three overlapping edits across five shots. After Brian and Dominic flee, the blast is shown repeatedly - from Dom's perspective, head-on, and high-angle - stretching time to highlight the levitating car.

I took a few cracks at this one. The irregular shape was, how you say, what the fuckified. #OliveArtClub

It's been such a treat seeing people find out the OG Motoko Kusanagi is just a gay Bugs Bunny

It's really too bad Capcom got Sentinel wrong. MvC2 could have been a successful game.

(pops head up) "historical accuracy in movies" On one hand, truly accurate movies would be dreary, dull and, if you want to be literal-minded, should have tons of characters shuffling on and off with no payoff. On the other hand, people DO absorb what they see onscreen as "the" history

Same as ever.

Paul Schrader wrote an op-ed 20 years ago where he argued that it was no longer possible to be a movie expert. Movies as a subject had grown too big to be considered one all-encompassing specialty. He has pointed out that the amount of audiovisual entertainment has exploded even since then.

She's from the part of southeastern Michigan that doesn't interact with the rest of southeastern Michigan, if you get my meaning.

I made a joke about psyllium husks at work the other day, and the only other guy who I was certain would get it (for reasons) did not get it. Then I had to execute five dimensional rhetorical gymnastics to explain the joke in a way that wouldn't get me an immediate sit-down meeting with management.

Is there a more depressing phrase than "we are finally giving the fans what they want"