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[‏ً @itsnwts]

Work. Work. Work. Stay hydrated. You go to the dentist. 10,000 steps. “What’s for dinner?” Insurance. Drink water. Pay a bill. Pay a bill. Smile. Credit Score. Check engine light. Go get gas. ALLERGIES! TAXES! STUDENT LOANS! Phone storage full. Email. Email. Apple $12.99. Apple $9.99. Subscriptions. Subscription. Overdraft. Laundry. Fold. Text. Text. Text. Clean the house. “I haven’t seen you in a while.” Doctors appoinment. Hair appoinment. Nail appointment. RENT. WAR! GOVERNMENT! POLITICS! THE PRESIDENT!!

[Kat Tsai @Chuwenjie]

In light of the Avatar leaks, I wanted to share a list of our visual development artists. There is so much amazing work we did on the film that we are not allowed to share right now, and it’s thanks to these people that the movie looks the way it does. Thread below ⬇️

[Labadsy @Mccoy_Labadsy]

Aang would have wanted me to see it for free anyway

[Pearl Rose @hipearlrose]

you gotta be strangermaxxing you gotta be chatting up random people as much as you can. Big Individual lobby doesnt want you to, but that is why you must

[Rambo Van Halen @RamboVanHalen]

I put in 25 years. It would be 26 but I haven't worked yet this year and I'm not sure I'll ever work in entertainment again.

The writing has been on the wall for quite some time. But it's a sad thing--especially since the collapse of Hollywood is (mostly) self inflicted.

Outsiders like to blame the unions and burdensome regulations. That's not exactly wrong, but the big reason is that Hollywood stopped making a product that people wanted to consume.

Film is a funny thing. On one hand it's art. But on the other it's a mass consumer product--like a car, or a soft drink.

But unlike a typical consumer product, it was something we consumed together. We went to a special place, and sat with strangers, and watched stories.

And those stories infected us.

They entered our minds and our souls and they implanted things.

Deep things. Ancient things. Timeless things.

Things like heroism and beauty and love and fear and sex and death and adventure and tragedy and pain and injustice and all the things that make up our dreams.

There's a thing we call "cinematic language". It's how we tell a story with images. (And BTW if you want to learn more about the language of visual media, read Scott McCloud's excellent book Understanding Comics.)

An odd thing about cinematic language is that it's the same language as dreams. There's a scene in Christopher Nolan's Inception where Leonardo DiCaprio is explains to (the tragic) Ellen Page how dreams work.

But what he's really describing is cinematic language. Inception is really a movie about movies BTW.

While it's far from my favorite film, I think it's the perfect film. Because the suspension of disbelief is perfect. You believe the plot about dreams because you're familiar with how movies work--maybe not consciously--but you know.

Everyone knows. Maybe not everyone has seen a movie, but everyone has dreams.

Another odd thing about film: you don't "watch" a movie, you look into it. And you put yourself inside it. Now you're in the dream.

And you're hypnotized.

Because movies do that too.

The motion--the moving images--they hack your brain. We're programed to pay attention to moving things.

Even when the things aren't real.

Even when they're just light reflected off a screen.

So we'd go to these special places--these movie theaters--these temples--and we'd sit, and we'd "watch" and we'd enter the dream.

And we did it together.

And after the movie was over--and the lights came on, and we'd file out over the sound of popcorn crunching under our feet--we were different.

We had become transformed.

Sometimes we were changed in minor ways. But sometimes not. Sometimes we were changed in profound ways.

And we did it together.

Before the movie we were a room full of strangers.

But after--on the way out the door--we all had something in common.

Because we shared an experience. We'd shared the dream. And we'd all become transformed.

And then tech got involved...

Streaming turned movies from a communal experience to a personal experience. And that's an issue, but they did something else too.

They started developing movies as if they were tech products.

But you can't apply a KPI to a dream. At least, not successfully anyway. Because dreams don't work like that--nor does any sort of art.

And that's a funny thing about making movies. You try to make the best film you can, but at the end of the day you have no idea if it's good or if it's going to be successful. You just have to hope the audience likes it.

Now, you can design a movie that will appeal to a preexisting audience. Marvel movies are like this. There's a large group of fanboy nerds that will see every single one.

You can count on them every time.

Just like you can count on the Gay Oscar Bait crowd (for example).

But those movies are slop. But Hollywood became specialists in slop. Because slop is safe. Because you could apply KPI style metrics to slop.

As a result they lost the audience. And the audience is probably never coming back.

I wrote a book in 2024 (that was published in 2025). While writing, I thought of it as my farewell to the industry.

But looking back, what I was actually writing was a eulogy for Hollywood--the place where dreams were made.

And so it goes...

[Captain Ⓐncapistan @CptAncapistan]

If you're ever looking for an example of how prices are supposed to behave absent government intervention, the electronics sector is always a great go-to.

Yes, there are other factors at play and, even absent government regulation and central banking, electronics would still likely outpace other goods like food in price reductions, but the point remains that we should be talking about all goods this way.

"I can't believe how cheap hip replacements have gotten!"
"You used to have to pay that price for just two bedrooms, one bath, and no garage!"

We're being robbed of prosperity because socialists are impatient, corporations hate competition, and politicians are corrupt opportunists.

[Johnny @Johnnyslesh]

$AMC

You get to see 16 movies for 99¢

I dare you to get this with the intention of cancelling after one month. I bet money you keep your subscription for 25 bucks every month after.

This subscription takes you from movies are so expensive to “I can’t believe I didn’t subscribe years ago. What was I thinking”

[Nicole ✨ @BombshellCole]

Tax season in a low to mid income Black household was always a TIME. We called it Taxmas. That was our real Christmas. And Taxmas wasn’t just about the money. It was about relief. It was about seeing your parents finally feel ahead for a minute. Whatever didn’t make it under the tree in December? Oh it was coming in January/February. New shoes, fresh clothes, and that one thing you kept asking for and your mama kept saying “we’ll see.” A game, a bike, a doll, whatever.

But the best part wasn’t even the stuff. It was watching our parents glow and breathe a little more. Bills caught up, a few extras in the cart without doing mental math the whole time, the fridge full, lights on. Just a moment to not feel behind.

And please know we were eating out the next couple weeks. Not once. A few times. No cooking. Just vibes.

I know everybody didn’t experience this and that’s ok. The ones who did, know exactly what we’re talking about.

[PS @dostoevesque]

You have to stop treating it like a performance where you are trying to become the best version of yourself. It is not theatre. It is not self transformation day after day. You do it the way you brush your teeth. It is not about liking or disliking it. It is simply something you do.

The moment you frame working out as a heroic arc, you introduce emotion into it. Motivation, inspiration, identity, self judgment. That makes it unstable. Some days you will feel like the protagonist. Most days you will not.
But brushing your teeth requires no identity. No inspiration. No self analysis.

It is maintenance. When exercise becomes maintenance rather than self-improvement theatre, it becomes lighter. Less ego. Less pressure. Less evaluation.

[LaRussell @LaRussellGC]

Comprehension be at an all time low 🤦🏾‍♂️. Niggas aint even watch the clip. Just reacting. I am a fan of Wayne. I can rap this nigga verses bar for bar. I'm also a grown ass man who can understand what's being said in the songs now in a way I couldn't when I was 17. Y'all niggas losers for spreading propaganda 😂😂😂. Niggas got whole smear campaigns against me now 😂😂😂. Y'ALL WON'T WIN. I am a nigga who can communicate 😂😂.

[𝙕𝘾𝙝𝙪𝙢 @ZChumYT]

I feel ashamed of myself for how silent I have been and for that I am sorry. If you support an ICU nurse getting gunned down in the street by anonymous masked men just fucking unfollow me. I don't care anymore and I wont go on pretending this isn't happening.

He never drew his weapon. A federal agent disarmed him of his legally registered and lawfully carried/holstered firearm, and then dumped 11 rounds into him.

Our rights as Americans are being stripped away in real time. Fuck anybody who tries to gaslight you into believing this is okay, or that these people are in some way heroes.

[Bruce Fenton @brucefenton]

An ICE agent today could murder anyone they feel like in cold blood and instantly, without knowing any facts, this administration would come to their defense and circle the wagons to spin a narrative in their favor.

This isn’t the America I want & any republican who doesn’t see the problem with this is a fool.

[HugS (not a landlord) @HugS86]

Unidentifiable men with questionable authority approach a vehicle. They’re part of a government force made up of untrained volunteers with a power fantasy and a reputation for human rights abuses.

A mother reacts to two of these armed men aggressively approaching her door to do literally “who knows what”. She reasonably panics and tries to book it.

Then this armed man casually walks in front of this vehicle that’s clearly attempting a maneuver to flee, and he does not move with any kind of urgency until he feels threatened.

Suddenly, he’s able to move quickly, draws his weapon, CLEARLY moves out of the path of danger, and while he’s outside of this path of danger, fires 3 bullets into her.

This is murder, and the fucking government is trying to tell you that your eyes can’t see.

[Daniel Prinsloo @Daniel7Prinsloo]

Elon Musk is no genius. Everyone with an IQ above room temperature can now see that he was created. He never achieved anything in his life and just became the wealthiest man in the world because someone decided it. I am going to make a bold statement and I am a poor man who honestly can't afford food for the rest of this month or any other. I am more intelligent than this fucking idiot and my IQ is only 140. I achieved more in life than this idiot. He agrees with Israel's genocide, the US military's coup in Venezuela, US intervention in South Africa and lying about a white genocide here, and now approving of ICE protecting whites by murdering white mothers. Elon Musk, @elonmusk just fuckoff to Mars already and take Trump and Bibi "Beelzebub" Netanyahu with you. At least the world will be a better place. Newsflash BTW. You will die attempting it, and humans will never go to Mars. We can't. I am middle aged, crazy, pissed off, and poor, so I have nothing to lose. X Straight Edge X

[Kalani rodgers @rodgers_kalani]

We have 100% passed the point where u are no longer seen as an American citizen if ur views don’t align with the right.

Even if you truly believed the lady was in the wrong for not letting people open her door forcefully, to focus on her being a leftist (if she even was) is just purposeful division. No sympathy if the party we don’t like dies is the tone this sets.

[in charge of the girls @AmeriKraut]

hang it in the smithsonian ☝🏿

[artsch00lreject @artsch00lreject]

God grant me the serenity to accept the things that are so over, the courage to say fuck it we ball, and the wisdom to know when we are so fucking back

[ʇuᴉɐS📍 @saint_cloudy]

This is why I’m on the internet

[SinnersMovie @SinnersMovie]

‘SINNERS’ - For Your Consideration in All Categories | Revisit the Juke Joint for the holidays. ‘SINNERS’ is back in IMAX 70mm December 12. Watch conversations with filmmakers, cast and crew now.