Bennett R. Boyle

✟ Romans 3:23-24🙏 - @SBTS M.Div student, @ColumbiaChi Filmmaking graduate 🎓- 𝒮𝒾𝓂𝓊𝓁 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉𝓊𝓈 ℯ𝓉 𝓅ℯ𝒸𝒸𝒶𝓉ℴ𝓇 -

[Bennett R. Boyle @RealBennRBoyle]

Yours truly hardest hit

[Lucas U. Curcio @MethodMinistry]

No one is an iconoclast at Christmas.

[Bennett R. Boyle @RealBennRBoyle]

@douglaswils its long past time to cut ties. Keep your integrity

[Υουκε 🌿 @lagracelaverite]

Stephen Wolfe wrote the introduction for a new book published by Sacra Press, founded by Cody Justice, who cohosts a podcast with Michael Spangler.

Sacra Press also publishes “Positive Christianity in the Third Reich” and Spangler’s “Christian Race Realism.”

[Bennett R. Boyle @RealBennRBoyle]

@perfectreeves This is a different category. Good production design you can't actually see due to modern cinematography trends shoving incessant shallow focus, muted colors, and chronically underlit night time scenes in our face

[Bennett R. Boyle @RealBennRBoyle]

@MagnitudeReview @zakfilm I think you misunderstand the definition of contract

[Bennett R. Boyle @RealBennRBoyle]

@BradyJBush Exhibit A https://t.co/tOs9b4tPiG

[ClutchPoints @ClutchPoints]

"Elizabeth, I'm coming baby! Oh lord!"

Stacey King one year ago today as he reacted to the WILD finish in Lakers-Bulls where Josh Giddey called game on this incredible half-court shot at the buzzer 🤯

[Brittany Hugoboom @BritHugoboom]

The “Obsession” art director post is insane. I can’t believe no one talked her about of it.

For context, she agreed to a rate of $300 a day for a film with a very low budget.

It ended up being one of the most talked about and lucrative films of the year. And now she’s upset about the rate from 2 years ago.

You literally were the art director for the most TALKED ABOUT original film of 2026. You could leverage that and charge an extremely high rate on your next films and become so insanely rich and in demand.

Instead, she chose to complain about a rate that he agreed to.

This makes people in the industry think that you’re hard to work with.

In the creative industry, sometimes this just happens. Many photographers or models will take almost no pay to shoot a Vogue cover or some big magazine cover but then they get the ability to be able to charge high rates for campaigns.

[Hilaire Nereus @HilaireNereus]

These 2 posts are expressing the same point, but using different political and rhetorical strategies to make it.

Brian Sauve's timing of the repost is telling.

(still no word from Ogden about Whites Only...NETTR)

[Kansas City Royals @Royals]

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[Bennett R. Boyle @RealBennRBoyle]

https://t.co/MDWfLtp4lc This article doesn't disclose the fact that Joel Webbon did not properly disclose these sins to his initial church planting organization and glosses over the fact that he was, even if he wants to say otherwise now, in the position of pastor when he committed the sins

Also is @LostMyHats still writing for ya'll? I'm sure it would be news to him that Webbon and Spangler's dive off the cliff is a negative thing

[collin @fiendformojitos]

I mean I would honestly say this kind of a bad example of how to compose an imax frame

[cameron morse @cmrnmorse]

you really dont gain anything from the extra space, except that now all formats lack any sort of authoritative stance on composition

[𝐄𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚 @EudaimoniaEsq]

A lot of people in the anti-abortion camp are criticizing this post. And I get it. I’m not countering them. But one thing I haven’t seen anyone say, at least not explicitly, is how little epistemic humility this guy, and people like him, have. And this complete lack of epistemic humility results in them playing God and making inapt comparison—comparisons they cannot possibly make because they cannot rightly evaluate the two alternatives.

This man and his wife were informed that their child would have a series of medical difficulties, both physical and mental. We know that about Down Syndrome. We know that by almost any metric this is a “harder” life than someone without any such condition. But these people turn around and say “and, thus, it would be better for the child if the child actually just died now.”

But they can’t know that. They can’t actually compare existence with Down Syndrome to non-existence/death, because they don’t know what the latter entails. In order to rightly and ably compare two things, you have to know enough about them. We don’t know enough about death to ably compare it to life—even life with difficulties. So one cannot truly and reasonably say “death is better than living with Down Syndrome.”

It would be like me asking “do you prefer to eat apples or smoogaboogaloogas?” Of course, you don’t know what a smoogaboogalooga is, so you would reply “uh, I don’t know what that is, so I can’t compare it to an apple.” That’s epistemic humility. This guy and his wife have none of that, because they decided that death (which they cannot understand and appreciate) is better than life.

But even now I’m being charitable. I’m assuming a lack of epistemic humility when in reality they weren’t deciding what was “best” for the child (death vs. life). They were deciding what was best for themselves. And they decided killing their child was best for themselves.

[Bennett R. Boyle @RealBennRBoyle]

A man who is truly convinced he is right does not respond to "I feel the conflict within you" with "It is too late for me, my son." The thrust of Vader's argument when pressed by Luke on Anakin still being alive within him is suppression: "I must obey my master" not justifications like "The Emperor is right and I am happy serving him." His justifications in ROTS like "from my point of view the Jedi are evil" are him deceiving himself in order to suppress the initial remorse he feels. The cost of repentance is too high so he must double down. This is why the move from "What have I done?" to "I will do anything you ask" is not abrupt and is actually very true to how temptation and falls in to actually function. He doesn't kill Mace because he has reasoned the Jedi are evil, he must reason the Jedi are evil because he has killed Mace. He must suppress the truth. He must obey his master.

This is how the OT and the prequels both seem to view Anakin's fall and it is very in line with how Romans 1 views sin and self deception. And once he doubles down he becomes Satanic in his offers to Padme and later Luke that they can rule the galaxy and make things the way they want them to be which have echoes of Satan's temptations to Christ in the wilderness.

The pattern in Anakin's fall is existential stress leading to rash impulsive decision which needs repenting of but repentance is costly. So instead of repenting he double's down and this self deception leads to the existential longing for control to become a lust for power. We see the opposite happen in Luke's case in Empire. He makes the rash decision but rather than give in at the moment where he realizes the consequence (Vader has cut his hand off and joining him is the only escape) he would rather die than relieve this existential stress and remorse at having made a costly impulsive decision by sacrificing his morals. We later see Luke repenting to Yoda for having done so.

Anakin's crisis moment is "I have made a terrible decision so now I must compromise my morals to escape the consequences and shame" and Luke's in Empire is the same: "I have made a terrible decision and now Vader is offering me a way to escape the consequences and shame if I just join him and compromise my morals."

Anakin falls. Luke would rather die.

[Bennett R. Boyle @RealBennRBoyle]

@TylerCWhitmore The glitching lamp

[Arthouse Shawn Levy @firagawalkwthme]

Lowkirkenuinely a little sad seeing this

[Jason Hanna @JasonHannaphoto]

Foreshadowing.
The shadow of downtown KC casts on to high level clouds above the K. One of the coolest pictures I think I’ve gotten lucky enough to take at the K. Especially with where we will be moving to. So cool.

[Bennett R. Boyle @RealBennRBoyle]

It's probably the most apparent departure from Lucas' documentary storytelling logic in TFA and what's annoying is the Lucian instincts are partially there. We start with Poe and meet Kylo Ren and Finn through Poe then we end up back on Jakku with Finn because he helps break Poe out. To follow Lucas' logic where characters are organically introduced in their first appearance because characters we already know intersect with them as the plot moves along, we shouldn't have met Rey until Finn did or at the very least until BB-8 did. Instead, Abrams chooses to make the audience omniscient in a away Lucas never would have and we get a cutaway to a character we do not yet know which I believe was a first for Star Wars at the time.

And you are completely right about how ironic this is given Rey's supposedly being a "nobody." Just one of many places where the sequel trilogy becomes hilariously meta on accident. Rey is so much of a "nobody" but yet somehow necessitated beating you over the head with editing and an introduction that is dripping with "this is actually somebody important, pay attention" which leads to the constant need to state that she is "nobody."

This is ironically a more egregious example of "telling instead of showing" than anything in Lucas' films.

[Haala ⚢ @haalaphrodyke]

Really miss when movies with wacky premises were taken dead seriously within the world of the film without having characters constantly interrupt the narrative flow with a "self aware" quip that explains the joke

[Maxance Vincent @MaxFromQuebec]

My showing was PACKED! STAR WARS used to be *the* event -- one that has defined generations & became more than a cultural phenomenon. You couldn't get a ticket for Part 7 during its opening weekend! Now, it's one of the movies of all time. Depressing!

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

That’s it. As a Christian dad, I was going to call all my Christian dad friends to all come watch Supergirl with me, but not anymore.