Rob Fowler

Mostly here for political commiseration and movie celebration.

[Rob Fowler @RobCamFowler]

My Favorite Films of the 2010s.
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[Tolkien World @TolkienWorldG]

On this day in 2003, Andy Serkis accepted Gollum’s MTV Movie Award for Best Virtual Performance and turned it into one of the greatest acceptance speeches ever.

It was so good it won a Hugo Award the next year for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.

[Rob Fowler @RobCamFowler]

@HeartofErased Correct. It’s a soulless cadaver made by committee to sell toys, and the toys have carried it for decades. Easily the nadir of Dragon Ball.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America. 

He embodies the broken system we’re running against.

It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton

[mari ☁️ @m_stormwitch]

World so fucked even I FULLY agree with what the Pope said here in his first encyclical

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

I know a few teachers in Queens who would beg to differ.

[𝕭𝖆𝖒 𝕾𝖚𝖑𝖑𝖎𝖛𝖆𝖓 @BamSullivan]

Can't raise minimum wage because it will kill jobs.

Can't raise taxes on the bourgeoisie class because it will kill jobs.

Can't ditch oil because it will kill jobs.

But when these companies replace 50% of their workforce with AI, it's "sorry, that's just the way it goes."

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Trump looting almost $2 billion from the government coffers to pay his supporters is one of the largest scandals in US history.

But our press is so beaten down and the public has become so fatigued by his constant criminality that it's barely a news story.

[carl 🥦 @NightlifeMingus]

imagine you’re struggling to merge off the 110 to take the 6th street exit while high above, Joyce Carol Oates observes you with the cold, Olympian gaze of a god

[Rob Fowler @RobCamFowler]

@Danimalish It’s fun when it’s anybody’s guess (Court of Owls would make sense), but I do strongly suspect Sebastian Stan will be Two-Face by the end of the film.

[ReelTok Podcast @reeltokpodcast]

“i’m engaged!” “i’m pregnant!” “i just bought a house!” i saw 4 movies at the theater this week with AMC A-List

[kendall @superiorsantina]

the biggest enshittification that ive seen post-2020 is every customer-facing job running off a skeleton crew cause every company realized that they can *technically* survive off of it and increase their profits in the process

[Vinegar Syndrome @VinegarSyndrome]

Artwork by Tony Stella

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Rob Fowler @RobCamFowler]

@EvaLovesDesign Where’d the lemon come from? Huh? 😠

[Brandon Weichert @WeTheBrandon]

Bingo!

[Almost Film Crit-enheimer @almostflmcritic]

A critic has NO obligation to consider the feelings of the general population. A critic has an obligation to use their expertise & passion for the art form they are looking/listening to and form a credible & detailed opinion of said art, independent of any outside party.