@EnterLiminality@ParaN_rmal Strongly object to the word “artists” here but otherwise, good post. I love Mirage Men but it didn’t go hard enough at its target — Pilkington too nice — and its refusal to just straight up call a spade a spade has left it in a no man’s land between debunkers and UFO believers.
@obscuretenet@brofromanother I did respect that after 12 movies he finally figured out how to make the last third of a story work, shame he had to do it at the cost of the first third, though. I am sure that he’ll get the math right eventually.
@brofromanother He’s the mainstream critic’s answer to the question “What would happen if you combined Siskel’s pedantry and Ebert’s bad taste and excised their collective intelligence and sense of humor?” We are not so back.
@brofromanother I agree with you both, by the way, but I have so little regard for the respective bodies of work that any time either man even approaches something interesting — the Circe sequence, say, or Glieberman’s Eyes Wide Shut strays — I perk up a little bit.
@brofromanother What else are we looking for from artists — or critics — other than that they communicate the truth within themselves? If it so happens that said truth is cabbagey mundanity then that’s the fault of the marketplace for rewarding it, is it not?
@brofromanother This tweet reminds me of Wilson’s takedown of The Odyssey in that both takes fail to account for Nolan and Glieberman’s function as Voices For Normie Audiences, and therefore may require judgment on that curve. At least both men are being honest in their own boring perspective?
@Nerdspringbreak@yourboydeluxe@FearedBuck It was at Oracle Field on 7/16/23 and these girls were his dates and it was gross. One of the dumb LA women I was with was like "That's Lucas Haas!" and I go "He should call himself Lucas Haasbeen" and I have a loud voice and I hope he heard me over Dear Mr. Fantasy, the pedo.
@Nerdspringbreak@yourboydeluxe@FearedBuck Lucas Haas was standing in front of me when I got dragged to the Dead & Co show there, and he was with two girls who seemed to be about fifteen years old and when the band did their shitass version of Hey Jude he says to them "This is a BEATLES song" and they got all excited.
@Nerdspringbreak@FACEE444 Unfair to other annoying things in the world to include Scrubs, it should be left out of any attempts at creating a Hierarchy of Annoying because it stands astride them all. I often wonder how great TV could've been if Bill Lawrence and Ryan Murphy were simply murdered as teens.
@MiddleOfMayhem I would say your life issues relate to your chosen professional field, which is running an anti-disinformation beat on an unimportant subject (aliens) for a tabloid that deals almost expressly in disinformation on an incredibly important subject (reality).
@gottahikefast Say what you want about wikipedia and its politics or whatever but it’s a fact that were there no wikipedia we’d have no access to this strangely comprehensive and oddly compelling history of the 1984 NBC television series Hunter.
https://t.co/7CbM0QElox
@tinyklaus Greenstreet did a lengthy post about this Thiel situation with actual reporting and you haven’t mentioned it at all, which is suspect. I think it’s clear at this point that you’re engaged in the same pro wrestling you’re accusing others of and that Garrett is just your patsy.