In a Place Like This - Movie Podcast

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In a Place Like This returns 2025 to discuss the movies that we love. https://linktr.ee/chrismichaels85

Hot take, even GREAT writing deserves something more than a park and bark shot with generic coverage I've had a pebble in my shoe about this for ages. Watch MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING and that shit has Split Diopters! Directed BEAUTIFULLY. The camerawork is as integral to a movie as the writing.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 3d ago

if you're directing a feature film you gotta come up with a way for a scene to be that's not "the two actors stand facing one another and deliver their lines." like you have to do SOMETHING

TALARICO: What they're doing in TX is they're redrawing the lines in middle of the decade, which is unprecedented. It's like changing rules after halftime bc you're worried the other team is going to win. It's cheating CHARLAMAGNE: More politicians should say that T: That they're cheating? C: Yes

So I decided to watch this long how-to video on writing a novel with AI, and I shit you not, a good 30% of the how-to was all about scrubbing out the obvious tells that you wrote your book with AI. If there's nothing wrong with using AI then why do you need to trick people?

The most corrupt, unethical AG in the US history will now take office after a sham deal with retiring Republican senators. Now this lawless DOJ will run amok with Trump’s criminal defense attorney carrying out his retribution tour against the innocent while the guilty go free.

N: "Why are you so obsessed with impeachment? So weird." O: "Should a president be able to violate your Constitutional Rights whenever he feels like it?" N: "Of course not!" O: "What's the only way to stop a president from doing that?" N: