There should be a Star Trek movie every two years and they should have indie film budgets and no explosions and almost everyone should hate them.
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MariedeGournay@mariedegournay.bsky.social · 3d agof you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.
Maybe when we learn about a new movie from the exact same feed where we learn about a new global atrocity, we are gradually training ourselves to treat movies like global atrocities and treat global atrocities like movies
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 6d agoThe fact that nearly every online debate or controversy results in some kind of brigading—people can’t just have opinions; they have to review-bomb and harass and call for books to be pulled from shelves—makes it impossible to have normal conversations on social media. Everything is a referendum.
“Woke 1 went too far!” The phrase “stay woke” comes from the movement against police murder of black people 12 years ago and in that time not a single police department was actually defunded nor abolished so idk what the fuck anyone is talking about
Between “Sex Purge Movie has no sex bc Sex Purge Movie director thinks sex is gross” and “Autistic person says they can’t look at cleavage or boobs in video games because of their autism” I fear we need to be even more aggressively pro-sex in media.
on an existential level I do need whichever issue of Absolute Batman it'll be to outsell that Marvel Star Wars Comic, I need to know we're better than this
Frankly, I'm more bothered by "people will have to sing about this because no one will remember how to write" coming at the end of a movie where no one writes a single thing. It's like an out-of-place MCU cameo but for all the big Linear B-heads out there
huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2w agoNot necessarily a Nolan dialog defender but not too bothered by "our age of bronze is collapsing." It's not hard for me to imagine getting into some sort of hijinks and then solemnly telling my wife that "our age of digital is collapsing."
Truly a clip we could all post everyday
jules ☔️@rainydayjules.bsky.social · 3w agothis is gonna be a really useful clip
I am here to defend the noble action movie from the classicist Emily Wilson: aftermath.site/the-odyssey-em...
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A Celebration of That Random Crystal Green Lantern Who Always Shows Up
By Steve Morris I’ve long been a supporter of the Green Lantern Corps, a huge organisation of space cops who show up whenever a major galactic crime has been committed and the universe needs …
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No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Sometimes when people condescend that you’re engaging with a blockbuster in some capacity it’s a little like going “oh is a movieball on?”
NEW BLOG POST! Some thoughts on Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey, the historical context of the Bronze Age Collapse, the Sea Peoples, and the legends of the Trojan War, and whether Nolan's movie is "historically accurate" or not, and what that even means.
Did Odysseus Cause the Bronze Age Collapse?
We were all set for The Odyssey to be our summer discourse. Battle lines had been drawn, takes had been prepared. Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s 8th century BCE epic poem was…
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One thing that will always stick in my mind is a Chinese youtuber who would talk about is how cool and normal China was about LGBT people and there was a thriving subculture, etc. Then the government made her shut down her channel, you guessed it, because she was gay
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4w agoyeah we've seen a constant squeezing of queer spaces in China over the last decade, both online and off
PEOPLE ARE BEING FORCED TO CHOOSE STARVATION! BECAUSE THEY CAN'T AFFORD THE DEBT! BECAUSE THE ECONOMY IS BAD!
Partisan@partpartisan.bsky.social · last mo.That's not starvation. That's debt. Those are two different things. That's like claiming that you're homeless because you have to pay rent.
I would fuck with survival games so hard if they were actually 'hunter-gatherer simulators' instead of the 'resource collector and base builder simulators' they actually are
Doop@doop.toys · last mo.in video games the word "survival" means clearcutting a forest to build a fortress and "cozy" means starting a small business so you can eventually earn enough money to clearcut a forest and build a fortress
becoming the joker is not enough. i am going to become poison ivy.
Reuters@reuters.com · last mo.Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
At least we can all agree: Kingdom Hearts is the best game series of all time
I am hearing that on his deathbed Lindsey Graham received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada.
"You gotta check out this viral animated web show dude, it's about a bunch of weirdos trapped in a simulated world, but get this: it's also about trau--"
And what a quote to kick off from. Who is she talking about here? Luke and Han? The Rebellion? The answer is... all of Star Wars. This is every story. The call to adventure. Every Star Wars story starts with someone finding themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally...
The last, rattling gasp before the death of a worldview.
The whole last decade has been building to this exact op-ed by this exact person.
Mass Effect discourse is literally just the "is Batman fascist" argument again
This is one of the best pieces of pop culture writing I've read in the past couple of years. These excerpts are great but you need to read how the build to that last one. Goddamn. Thank you @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social and @popheist.com
Pop Heist@popheist.com · 4mo agoWhen we're too obsessed with plot and not obsessed enough with story, we risk losing whatever substance mass-produced media has left.