Emyr

Puns galore. Futurist. Optimist. Green tech and hydrogen power supporter. Technology, science, politics, IT, aviation & Hollywood old + new.

[Emyr @Mach2Infinity]

I've found this to be generally true and it makes what you're watching predictable and thus dull when the story ought to have an element of suspense or mystery. Modern storytelling also contexualises bad/immoral acts by characters that are 'diverse' when the reverse isn't so.

[Hollywood Gadfly @Hwdgfly]

You can usually call who's good and who's evil within five minutes of watching something now. That's not an accident.

How identity-based moral math made diverse characters predictable, and why that's the real sin, not the diversity itself:

https://t.co/gep8NNcedj

[Emyr @Mach2Infinity]

RE: Facebook Messenger. All working now.

[Emyr @Mach2Infinity]

Same here. Not just me then. FYI for anyone else having issues with Facebook Messenger:

[Emyr @Mach2Infinity]

Same here. Not just me then. FYI for anyone else having issues with Facebook Messenger:

[Carl Draper @explodingwalrus]

Anybody else just been logged out of Facebook messenger and can't log back in? Unknown error

[Variety @Variety]

Jennifer Lopez says Oscar winner "Nomadland" is her "worst type of film."

“It’s not why I go to the movies. I like musicals. I like romantic comedies. I like thrillers, you know? And [‘Nomadland’] is a slow-moving thing about grief, and there’s no escapism to it. And I do like some movies like that… but that one I just didn’t. It’s just a taste thing,” she continued. “And I know we need movies about grief! I understand."

https://t.co/PAebyjNubU

[Emyr @Mach2Infinity]

Brad Pitt hasn't missed with his films these past few years. You can already tell the dog will be the star of the show. GQ did a really good piece on the film:

https://t.co/jhofuSNbjX

[Heart of the Beast @heartofthebeast]

It’s not who you live for… It’s who you’d die for. Watch Brad Pitt in the new trailer for David Ayer’s HEART OF THE BEAST - only in theatres September 25th.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

People from wealthy families cosplaying as self-made underdogs who started with nothing. This has been going on a long time but anyone who actually started with nothing can see right through it.

[Hollywood Gadfly @Hwdgfly]

Hollywood’s favorite story: the broke outsider who self-financed an $80k movie on credit cards.

The receipts: a ~$1M elite education, $330k+ in grants on her prior film, and a father - a Chinese real-estate and equity investor - credited as an executive producer.

I call it “poorface.” New piece: https://t.co/VTC1Twrpgj

[Emyr @Mach2Infinity]

@hughlaurie @jan_murray This is up there with the exchange between actors Con O'Neill and Russell Crowe over Crowe's accent in Robin Hood, only for O'Neill to respond with "fair enough x".

https://t.co/UdiqpWWzsj

[Emyr @Mach2Infinity]

This is up there with the exchange between Con O'Neill and Russell Crowe over the latter's accent in Robin Hood in which O'Neill responded with "fair enough x" lol.

https://t.co/UdiqpWWzsj

[Hugh Laurie @hughlaurie]

Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.

One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??

The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.

Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!

[out of context house m.d. @telyhouse]

Hugh Laurie responded to a criticism of House

[Emyr @Mach2Infinity]

@BareLeft And the Victoria Climbié case did involve race being an element owing to it either leading one to misinterpret her behaviour because of a shared physical characteristic or being unwilling to act for fear of being called 'racist' among other findings..

https://t.co/iaT1aW3G5Z

[Emyr @Mach2Infinity]

@BareLeft ..believed his attacker's false claim that he was a victim of racism and thus provoked/acting in self-defence rather than the aggressor who weaponised an accusation of racism. Something that would not have happened were their skin colour reversed.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Sky's @TrevorPTweets, a former head of the Commission for Racial Equality, says he feel "rage" because the Henry Nowak case is one of many examples of "misjudgements about people based on their race leading to a young life being cut short."

He shares three other examples ⬇️

[Emyr @Mach2Infinity]

Fantastic piece by GQ. A fascinating look into the making of the Odyssey with insights given by Tom Holland, Matt Damon, Robert Pattinson and Chris Nolan. Along with Denis Villeneuve, he and Nolan are probably the last auteur directors who'll make epic films of this scale.

[GQ Magazine @GQMagazine]

Tom Holland said he had to have “a very uncomfortable conversation” with Sony over moving his Spider-Man filming dates in order to be in The Odyssey: “One of the reasons why Sony were happy to move is because Chris has that reputation of ‘This movie isn’t going to go five months over.’” https://t.co/h57T1fsNdy

[Emyr @Mach2Infinity]

@DUALIPA Big congrats to you and Callum. You both look very happy together. Wishing you both the very best as you start the next chapter of your lives together.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

TOP GUN: MAVERICK (2022) had the impossible task of following a movie people had spent decades romanticizing. The fact that it came out 36 years later and immediately justified its own existence is still kind of remarkable.

[Emyr @Mach2Infinity]

@CostelloWilliam Couplesmaxxing.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Joseph Kosinski is absolutely GOATED for this sequence in TOP GUN MAVERICK.

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

Top Gun flew onto screens 40 years ago today. Few films hit culture this hard, fashion, MTV-era editing, a soundtrack which sold 12 milion copies, made the military look sexy, dialled up American swagger, and launched Tom Cruise into the stratosphere.
Time to buzz the tower.