smaaaashbro.bsky.social
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I don’t doubt the sincerity of their gatekeeping excuse, but I find it especially frustrating given 1) it basically erases the entire history of microbudget filmmaking and 2) it’s a classic example of twisting social justice principles to justify something unethical
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No (skeptical Deborah can change enough for that friendship to be possible)
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Part of the problem for me is she gets on the Langdon track because she has trouble opening a medication, and it’s not clear that’s actually related and not just her refusing to accept she was struggling with something basic
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Added irony here is since they think diagnoses rates are suspiciously high it is certainly the case that a non-negligible number of these people are themselves autistic
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For what it’s worth, I would have done a broader choreography category that would have included but not been limited to action/stunt design
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I just don’t know if that’s a meaningful distinction in an audiovisual medium.
But more broadly, most movies aren’t realistically competing for most awards either. Nancy Meyers films have a lot of VFX shots but it’s not like they’re competing in that category in any real sense.
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The main difference (whether this makes it better or worse) is it’s coming from a woman who faced negative consequences for taking a stand on the issue in the past
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Unless I’m misunderstanding the caveat you’re making, I don’t really think that’s true. Docs not eligible in lots of categories, directing and acting maybe theoretically but not realistically eligible for animated films. This is more akin to how not every movie happens to have an original score.
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I think they’re suboptimal (and in some cases counterproductive) for sure. I think they get so much attention bc we don’t have the infrastructure for primary strikes generally and none at all for secondary strikes (which is really where it’s at).
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It seems like the boycott portion is limited to Xbox which is much more doable
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The final scene with Sandman is genuinely incredibly moving
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I’m partial to the first one (I think 2 being rushed leads to some of the cinematography and editing being a lot weaker) but nothing really matches the Rosemary Harris scenes when and after Peter confesses to her in 2
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Genuinely don’t think that even qualifies as having watched the movie
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Ah yeah the Malcolm stuff was the main thing I remembered, weird to put it generously!
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As someone who read it around publication and similarly forgot most of it, can you remind me of some of the reasons I found it frustrating at the time
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One of the great romcom performances period (maybe the best love interest performance where the love interest isn’t a co-lead?)
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Putting everything else aside, I’m not going to look into it but I suspect based on the use of the phrase “minimum age of consent” this is including Romeo and Juliet laws, not the standard age of consent
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Even if someone didn’t want to go that far, it is certainly overrated as far as screenwriting goes. It’s how you end up with things like Titanic not getting a screenplay nom or people acting like it was absurd that Top Gun: Maverick did.
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Should have won Screenplay (absurdly snubbed) and broke the record
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Kind of telling that this is built into the design of the superboss
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First one of those games where I never felt particularly thrilled or satisfyingly challenged by any of the bosses
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Easily the better episode (and season) of television
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Even the bluntness is often just a quick line or two of dialogue and then it moves on, which is far preferable to a lot of the alternative approaches
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Linklater’s great but a lot of his films aren’t entirely successful while also not being that interesting to talk about. Coens are some of the most consistent filmmakers in history which makes their few lesser films more interesting to talk about.
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Only seen Tom Jones, any idea why it’s so low? It was fine to me and isn’t an infamous Best Picture winner to my knowledge.
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Definitely overly generous, you have to keep in mind that lots of people like Shea Whigham and John Ortiz are in the movies in relatively small parts
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@michaelhobbes.bsky.social respectfully think you’re both missing the forest for the trees. Their central message wasn’t “these people are loathsome freaks,” it was “most Republicans are good and normal people, like our friends the Cheneys”
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My contrarian take is it’s one of their worst. Open world has the typical drawbacks and it detracts from their usually great encounter design and difficulty scaling.
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The normal person would be shocked to learn what courts have held do not count as invocations of those rights
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More than any other movie it had its reputation damaged by coming out on Netflix
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I don’t think the ending is nearly that cheery or optimistic
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Notable he said the marketing “materials” are strong, not the actual campaign, think he might agree with you
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Probably (the boring choice) Supreme Clientele but it might be (the stranger choice) OB4CL2
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Also foolish to frame her most relevant background as academia rather than the church imo (especially given her religion permeates her actual academic output in a deeply unserious way)
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It’s not tautology, many said and a lot of data supported that they were uniquely bad candidates well before they lost
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Right, like Cori Bush didn’t lose her primary because she was progressive; she’d previously unseated a longterm more moderate incumbent. She lost because her own party wanted her to and unprecedented money was spent against her.
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I understand why people feel this way but his first movie was almost 30 years ago
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Twin Peaks: The Return (really the broader project as a whole) certainly has this
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I’m partial to Nope
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Relatedly, “is this something you’ve personally experienced at all or just something you read somewhere/one person said to you online?” I’ve never even seen some of the things they’re complaining about so it’s simply implausible they encountered them directly.
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They did get it right and the context is clear, it’s literally a piece about criminal prosecution of speech