ME (Don Hertzfeldt, 2024): look, it's very very good, I have no idea how Hertzfeldt wrings so much beauty out of the simplest of visuals. Do prefer his stuff that has more narrative, tho, this is very much oops, all vibes. I'm aware this started as an Arcade Fire collab before Win got cancelled...

It's my birthday, so we're doing a special birthday ranking of WORLD OF TOMORROW (2015). Is it fair to say a 15-min short film is "better" than a feature when you view it in a completely different context. In the specific case of World of Tomorrow, yes. Yes it is. WoT beats Iwo Jima for sure.

at long last, a politician i look like that isn't JD Vance

Odysseus: Gotta be honest with you guys I'm kinda doing this thing where I get lost on purpose as a self-punishment for my guilt. Me (watched a bunch of friends get eaten by cyclops, am currently getting turned into pig): cool

Robert Black@hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 20h ago

The film actually incorporates this critique! He gets lost basically on purpose, as a self-punishment because of his guilt

I really am trying to use this platform in a way that reduces my exposure to Online Poisoning, and I need to remind myself that there is no such thing as the "Ken Jennings transphobia" scandal.

Doing O Brother Where Art Thou today because we all love Odyssey discourse, don't we? A film with the courage to ask "what if Odysseus' crew recorded a hit song?" It is a banger of a song. Why didn't Skinny Christian Bale record a hit song for his Cambodian captors? Is he stupid? OBWAT wins.

The question isn't about whether Green's tech use is "pure." We trust people like him to do the work of finding out what current science says because no on has the time to research this stuff full-time. If his sources are AI hallucinations, then why should we believe him over anyone else?

Citizen Platano 🇵🇷@daniloc.xyz · 2d ago

my big takeaway from the Hank Green thing is to note how incoherent the entire discourse is there are categories of computing which are Pure, and which Hank is free to use but other categories of computing which Hank cannot use if a data center hosts the algorithm that promotes his video, fine…

Just got sent this cartoon from @thankyoumoon on tumblr and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't cryin in the club a little right now

Ranking CHILDREN OF MEN on Popcorn List. Surprising I haven't ranked this one yet. Massive CoM-head. Wouldn't be surprised if made the top ten. Yes, beats Rescue Dawn.

I have never seen the Shyamalan Avatar but from my conversations it seems like "liking" Netflix Avatar is mostly "well at least it's better than Shyamalan Avatar," which is stunning to me. How is anything worse than Netflix Avatar? How is that possible?

Big Joel@bigjoel.bsky.social · 3d ago

Also Netflix Avatar is so bad that disliking it feels objective. It’s not that it’s actually a *fact* that it’s bad, but liking it makes you an alien to me. What do you mean you enjoy it

So obviously we all know this is very very bad but the most baffling thing to me is "six days later." Like, that's almost a week! Even if I assume they share cooking duties (which I definitely, definitely do not), wouldn't the most natural time for her to cook for him be like two days later?

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

Ranking INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY (2023) on Popcorn List. It is not the worst Indy movie, and the opening with de-aged Indy voiced by not-even-a-little-bit-de-aged Harrison Ford is hilarious. It is, however, worse than Rescue Dawn.

I don’t agree with most of Wilson's takes on this movie, but may she who is without scorching hot movie takes cast the first stone. God bless those born with a poster's heart.

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 4d ago

I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...

Day three thousand and one of loitering at the castle. I dunno, starting to get a little depressed. There are so many suitors here, why would she pick me? At least it's kind of fun to be a dick to Odysseus' dog.

Gabriel R Johnson, novelist@grjohnson.bsky.social · 5d ago

Day three thousand of loitering around Castle Ithaca trying to convince Penelope to let me fuck her. One of these other suitors is acting like he's our boss? Like fuck off, dude.

My white, classical radio-loving ass has never been the target demographic for hip-hop so grains of salt everywhere but ten/fifteen/twenty years ago hip-hop had these cool, epic, grandiose beats/backing tracks and every recent rap track I've heard has been this dull as fuck bass/snare drum.

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

I like my horses like I like my condoms: ribbed for her pleasure

This is going to result in a prolonged siege of Penn that ends when Penn's library accepts a mysterious, anonymous gift of an oversized book, which turns out to contain a company of armed critics who then go on a rampage in the Classics department.

Trying this again. Again, animated boobs anthology Heavy Metal loses to Letters from Iwo Jima.

Gabriel R Johnson, novelist@grjohnson.bsky.social · 4d ago

Ran into a technical difficulty. The app booted me for taking too long posting and when i tried to get back to my place it was serving me different matchups for some reason. I will restart my Heavy Metal ranking later.

Ranking HEAVY METAL (1981) on Popcorn List today. This is a movie with a simple thematic thesis: looking at boobies is awesome. I don’t disagree, but there’s something kind of offputting about a film that doesn't even try to pretend it has other things on its mind. We open with a loss to Iwo Jima.

Day three thousand of loitering around Castle Ithaca trying to convince Penelope to let me fuck her. One of these other suitors is acting like he's our boss? Like fuck off, dude.

Ranking TUSK (2014) today, one of the most underrated movies ever made and the closest Kevin Smith has come to a masterpiece. It beats Rescue Dawn, no question.

I don't know why everyone is in such a frenzy to see The Odyssey in 70mm. That's only like seven centimeters big. I'd rather see it on a movie screen thank you very much.

Ranking INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM today. I like it on a setpiece level but not really on a story level. I don’t think it beats Iwo Jima, nothing in Temple is as good as that scene of ten dudes in a row committing grenade seppuku.

Ranking GERALD'S GAME, a movie I really really like, probably my favorite Netflix Original horror. Easy win against Rescue Dawn here.

Best character in the odyssey is that asian guy who's like "fuck it, i'm taking out the wax"

the only Trojan Horse discourse I’m interested in

Ranking THE CREATOR. Maybe this movie would be good if John David Washington weren't the single most sauceless actor working today. Unfortunately he is, and he makes the film narratively and emotionally empty. It's worse than Letters from Iwo Jima, I tell you what.