I'm the former @anne76343
It's my new account
the assh*le Reevemuskir hacked my account
But I remain the same cinephile, seriesphile, curious reader, etc
@vtchakarova This quote is poetic but there are always material explainations, not just psychological
plus there are civilizations that actually died, yet still has influence because some of their fruits are proven efficient (see Roman civilization)
@doubtline@ghostofchristo1 It's more an intelligentsia overproduction
Elites like high skilled engineers, astrophysicians, etc have trouble to find projects they could lay their hands on
states were defunded to subsitize this intelligentsia (for political reasons) instead of ambitious scientific programs
@tunmise7j Lynch disavowed his movie because he suffered during the production hell
yet there are many qualities in his adaptation, despite the fact he only had 130 min to tell a story his successors had moretime to wrap
@ShamashAran It's just a cover for the inability to write compelling characters and stories
When Lynch made Mulholland Drive, he wasn't thinking about lesbian representation on screen
he was telling a love story with his unique surrealist style
@BodenViews that case is a smoke screen on an aggressive takeover
The US who love to chant about "diversity", "freedom in business" will to the same to any "foreigner"
@mmjukic It's a big difference with the Cold War and competition with USSR
China today does have a space program and built their own Tiangong, yet the US & EU aren't interested to double down
they are making their population dumber & dumber instead of meeting the technological challenge
@d4doome Technological progress has always allowed work to be shifted to other areas
The rejection by educated people (the tyranny of the middlemen) today stems from their refusal to admit that social prestige must be redirected towards creative, production, and maintenance roles
@d4doome This saturation of bad news is deliberate so that people in developed countries put their own dissatisfaction into perspective (and so that the gossipy classes can display the greatness of their altruistic souls)
@Stunt_ManMik3 Yes at this point of complete waste of DC brand, better doing isolated GOOD movies instead of a re-re-start of a shared universe nobody is interested in
@darkromantikk@TheCinesthetic What Darabont brought was a prestige cable TV cachet to TWD, with his cinematic background
AMC became so greedy with later seasons & made them look cheap
I was mad at their treatment of All Out War arc
(Banshee with a cheaper budget, looked better & had the tone for Saviors Arc)
@onlypeluayo The Butlerian Jihad has some short flashbacks in Dune Prophecy series
but it's used as the beginning of the beef between The Harkonnens and The Atreides, and not expending the lore (to explain mentats, the Guild, etc) except the law banishing thinking machines
@Rebel0fReality In the 2000's, WB did the same with Nolan
The Prestige wasn't a huge hit, some considered Batman Begins was a semi-flop, yet they kept on betting on him and the jackpot came with TDK
And since then, Nolan became an untouchable king
sometimes you have to bet on the future