Brandon Sneed

Writer. @rollingstone @nytimes @sinow BOOK OF EASTBAY, SOONER, HITG. Dad. Landscaper. Learning forever.

[Brandon Sneed @brandonsneed]

SINNERS is so fucking good, y'all. Go see it ASAP, in IMAX if you can swing it.

[Dropout Jacob🍿 @DropoutJacob]

Can’t stop thinking about the significance of the main vampire being Irish in SINNERS. He empathizes with the oppression of black Americans, but ultimately weaponizes his whiteness to become the thing he hated most by forcing his way of life onto them.

[dolly li @dollyli]

I’m the host and producer of this documentary about the Mississippi Delta Chinese video & also cultural consultant on @SinnersMovie! Ryan Coogler and his team were meticulous about the details—truly an honor to see nonfiction enter the fiction space in this spectacular way.

[Brandon Sneed @brandonsneed]

@ArtRondeau Hey Art, I got hacked, please ignore and delete. Sorry about that.

[Brandon Sneed @brandonsneed]

Hey everyone, if you got an email from me about a bid proposal or something, please ignore and delete. I got hacked. Sorry about that!

[Brandon Sneed @brandonsneed]

Try telling this to every editor I've ever worked with — I use it allll the time and have no shame about it and no plans to stop.

[doxie @doxie_gay]

an easy tell if someone uses chatgpt is if they use the long dash (—) nobody uses that

[Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 @big_business_]

Ryan Coogler saying that Puss in Boots: The Last Wish inspired him to make Sinners might be the best thing I've heard all day

[Brandon Sneed @brandonsneed]

This.

[Robbie Shilstone @shilstone_arts]

Miyazaki spent his entire life building one of the most expansive and imaginative bodies of work, all so you could rip it off and use it as a filter for your vacation photos.

Not into this one bit. Protect artists.

[dushmanoevsky @chonkychihuahua]

someone at work said that a generation of kids growing up not reading books is a generation of kids not learning how to imagine what it's like to put themselves in someone else's shoes and understand how/why they feel what they do (empathy)

[Carter Donnick @CDonnick1]

An actor having such an athlete-coded mentality and not being afraid to showcase it rocks so much, Timmy has been on a generational run

[Brandon Lewis @blewis1103]

Timothée Chalamet has starred in seven Best Picture Oscar nominees since 2017, leading four of them. There are A-listers who haven’t been in a single one over the course of decades. But sure, let’s knock him for caring too much and wanting to be great.

Christ.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

It’s crazy in retrospect how confident and hopeful my generation (millennials) were fifteen years ago. We were making ground-breaking music. We were going to end racism forever. The internet was making everyone kinder and smarter. We had such dreams of a better world.

[Brandon Sneed @brandonsneed]

Her: "Are we in love with each other?"
Him: [scared nod]
Her: "What are we gonna do about it?"
Him: "Nothing. There's nothing we can do."
[beat]
Him: "I love you for free, Lainey."
Her: "I love you for free, Jake."

(Sleeping With Other People)

https://t.co/wKKyQXqTrG

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

In your opinion, what is the most unabashedly romantic line in a film?

[Brandon Sneed @brandonsneed]

Studying rhetoric and communication for a PhD program + blending it with my background in psychology, neuroscience, and biology, and one thing's become clear: whether on purpose or not, most outspoken folks operate from a place of lashing out rather than solving problems.

[Brandon Sneed @brandonsneed]

OK I have noticed this with ChatGPT and other AI, but I also overuse the em-dash, so ....

[LindyMan @PaulSkallas]

A shortcut for detecting if something is written with AI is they all use this symbol "—" throughout the writing. It's relatively rare when a human uses it, maybe once or twice, if that. But AI chats love using it. No clue why.

[Brandon Sneed @brandonsneed]

I do this mentally every time I see it.

[maha @mahaaaay]

saying “allen iverson?” really loudly when people mention AI

[Brandon Sneed @brandonsneed]

Oh shut up.

[aLec robBins @alecrobbins]

Severance should tell us all the secrets up front. i'm not being cute, it would be a lot more interesting and compelling. you think your show is better for dragging everything out like this? didn't anyone learn anything from Lost and Westworld? isn't anyone else exhausted?

[Brandon Sneed @brandonsneed]

You know what, I'm old enough now to loudly say fuck this kind of pretentious bullshit. Let Imagine Dragons and Benson Boone and their kind live, man. Let people who like them like them. And other singers/artists/makers, just make the shit you love and forget cynics like this.

[huffy @sulkingtime]

we need an official term for this imagine dragons genre so we can more effectively target and destroy it

[Unhinged Vids @VidsUnhinged]

Keonon Lowe, the high school coach who stopped a mass shooting by disarming the kid and offering a hug. A hero in every sense

[JOSIAHx @Josiahx]

This story lives rent free in my head:

Lord of the Rings star Sean Astin once asked Lesnie [LotR cinematographer] 'where is the light coming from? ' when they were shooting in what should have been a darkened tower.

Lesnie replied, “Same place as the music.”