I don't care that Helen of Troy is black, I care that they built a 50 ft cyclops puppet and filmed in a real cave in Greece, because I actually like movies.
@wyomingiliad@bobbchoy@bigmonkeong This is wrong, though. Universal did not eliminate influencer attendance. It eliminated the separate influencer-first marketing window that would've lifted the embargo for that group prior to the press/critic group.
I wholeheartedly support Ari Aster in his mission to make a movie that causes congress to ban the act of making movies, ushering in an era of prohibition bootleg cinema that will heal the American soul
we are being gaslit about AI on a societal level. Everybody is vibe coding but I haven’t seen one useful thing get produced. Everybody has agents doing something but nothing useful is getting done. Cool you had AI summarize a PDF and make a template. Nice
every DC-based political operative bio is like: “Strategist. Storyteller. Girldad. Fighter of good fights. Lives on a diet of coffee and red wine, but usually not in the same cup 🤫. Always down to yap about redistricting. Hook ‘em 🤘”
The movie itself is great but bar none the most insane part of this is that they built THIRTY THOUSAND SQUARE FEET of this place with very little CG. Like in a world dominated by "eh well just do it in post", the fact they BUILT this astonishes me
Since everyone is rightfully raving about Obsession, an incredibly bleak but arguably necessary and timely movie, here is my plea to check out Red Rooms, an even more bleak but necessary and timely horror that will crawl under your skin and refuse to leave
We should pay members of Congress two million a year, Senators five. If they are found to enrich themselves in any other way aside from maybe home appreciation we execute them
Been shouting this from the rooftops. One of the most important paragraphs in the world today. For culture, media, ideology, politics etc. everyone is downstream of this.