I often think about the painting in Street Fighter the movie of Bison as John Wayne Gacy. Absolutely unhinged bit of set design for a JCVD vehicle/videogame adaption.
@V_rbatim@Kalajarati People make playing fighting games out to be like landing a rocket on the moon and not something I did when I was 6 because I thought Ryu looked cool.
Finally got round to watching this tonight, and despite knowing its bleak reputation I still wasn't ready for it. No chance of sleeping tonight. Can't stop thinking about how our addiction to energy consumption has tethered us to a power source that is immanently apocalyptic.
I fucking hate Alex Karp man. If there's gonna be a shadowy military surveillance company can they at least do it directly and with professionalism. Stop bringing out this insufferable Taika Waititi character to talk about jiu jitsu and how it's woke elitism to oppose AI drones.
We're in a pivotal time in cinema, as new capitalism-fueled technologies and different forms of communication make the future of the medium uncertain. I'm not sure if it's because of the baggage in my mind that Bi Gan's celebration of the art form feels like a eulogy. (...)
I cannot express the extent to which this company needs to be aggressively dismantled, its assets seized and its data storage destroyed completely. It is a deeply evil organisation run by deeply evil people.
Yet they are still deepening their access in the NHS! Get them out.
Auto-translate feels like releasing invasive species into Japan. I saw a Japanese threatening a Russian by pirating Dostoevsky, only for the Russian to reply with a pirate site and some book recommendations.
They have no natural defenses against these people. RIP the ecosystem.
Vittorio Storaro level cinematography from the camera guy here. The tracking of the movement round the ring, the reaction shot, cut to Lio, zoom for the close up, pull for the spear. Kino.