They should cast Ryan Gosling as Booster Gold and Russell Crowe as Ted Kord and it’s set in 1970s LA and they’re private detectives and it’s directed by Shane Black and they don’t wear their costumes and they can call it The Nice Guys 2
The bleakest thing about screens is how they’ve destroyed the concept of pleasure. People don’t dance anymore. They don’t read. They don’t have hobbies. If Big Tech has its way, there will be no more writing fiction or making music. Everyone is entertained and no one is happy.
we’re definitely in an “i just don’t like you, but i’m too self-righteous to admit that’s what’s going on, so instead i’m gonna invent a moral-sounding reason to retcon the reason for my attitude” epidemic
i’m rewatching with a couple friends who’ve never seen it and it’s insane how justified she is in pretty much everything i cannot believe she got so much hate for so long
plot armor is not a real thing. it was made up by cinemasins and anime youtubers. also, everyone in this movie fucking dies to help the one guy who survived get out alive
In Fahrenheit 451, the abolition of reading began with tech companies simplifying books into summaries that you could read in five minutes. Because people no longer engaged with the texts, they forgot how to think. Then came the book-burnings.
y’all looked at “All art is a byproduct of an artists’ upbringing, which shaped their intrinsic morals and political principles. What a piece of art does and doesn’t say is a reflection of that.” and read that as “yo gabba gabba says something about the government”
Universal healthcare, mandatory maternity leave, full reproductive healthcare for women in all states, and student loan forgiveness. Also, we’re not your brood mares.
Post-2016 was an era when powerful men suffered consequences (Me Too), the public came out against police brutality (BLM) and the government had to offer direct care for citizens (COVID). For elites this was an unacceptable state of affairs and had to be rolled back ASAP.