Look whatever one thinks about the review as a whole, it cannot be denied that "there are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible," is an all-timer of a line. Channeling the spirit of Ebert for sure.
Today's royal families are all engaged in an incessant larp. Doing military training for a war they will never fight, studying politics, diplomacy and languages in a country they will never govern, pretending to remain an important national institution when they're not
Nolan is so determined to fit everything into his post-Catholic morality that he took the Greek concept of xenia, a reciprocal guest-host relationship among civilised people, and universalised it into a simple "be kind" golden rule and made that the central message of his adaptation of The Odyssey.
He's so intolerant of anything alien in the source material that he makes Odysseus of all people a traumatised war veteran processing guilt for Troy.
"volvemos a unirnos con nuestros viejos amigos de Obsidian Entertainment. Estamos felices de confirmar que están trabajando con nosotros en un nuevo proyecto de Fallout"
grrm can’t finish fire and blood 2 because it would spoil dunk and egg. grrm can’t finish dunk and egg because it would spoil main series. grrm can’t finish main series because he’s had the worst writers block of all time with it.
the problem with AI isn't just that it's ugly and lazy, it's indicative of a culture uncaring about everything. you have to care about something. you have to care about what you're putting out in the world. you have to make effort somewhere so people can perceive it.
jaime lannister... he's the greatest of all time. he's unbelievably washed. his heart is made of gold. he's a piece of shit. he's the most annoying man to ever live. he's the truest man to ever live. he believes in nothing. he believes in brienne. there are no men like him.
Bryce Dallas Howard has shared a video of the late Sam Neill singing “Blackbird” with Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern.
“Sam had an immense passion for life. Generous with his wine, his stories, his time. One of the most unassumingly attractive and magnetic people I've ever met.”
Lo que me hace gracia de esto es que si tus abuelos españoles emigraron en 1910 a Argentina, ahora tú eres víctima de la colonización española, pero si se quedaron en Galicia, naciste responsable.
"privacy on a date"
Dating is illegal now so zoomers don't do it, or anything else, because everything fun is also illegal. They sit in their rooms and rot on their phones because they're serving a life sentence in the gerontocratic prison state for the crime of being born.
the thesis of the british one is that it's kind of fucked that you're more connected to your coworkers than your friends and family by extended forced proximity.
the thesis of the american one is that the former is actually a good thing.
I seem to recall Zizek pointing out how rather than being forced to comply against our will, we are now culturally pressured to actively participate in and enjoy our own subjugation.
Elon took $38 billion from US taxpayers to make a bunch of rockets explode while he illegally cut pediatric cancer research, meals on wheels and USAID. He’s the ultimate fraud and parasite.