Kyle Daly
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Kyle Daly
@dalykyle
Managing director @fgs_global. Former tech editor/reporter @axios, @politico, @blaw, et al. Movie liker.
Washington, D.C. Beigetreten Şubat 2011
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@TheAlexSylvian MI2 sucks in ways that are confounding and the “actually it’s good” revisionism is so annoying, but across their non-MI careers, this is absolutely the case
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If I'm being one hundred percent honest John Woo is a better filmmaker than De Palma
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@david_j_roth Watching the trailer for CHEWY (the Chewy Spree origin story) while I settle in to watch GLUG, about the product designer who came up with the idea of making the hole on soda cans 40% wider
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I love this boomlet in movies about things you can buy at a store. I hope the Consumer Product Cinematic Universe culminates with Orville Redenbacher (Liam Hemsworth somehow) stepping through a portal and saying "I brought some snacks" as nerds lose their shit in an IMAX theater.
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@JFrankensteiner Tarantino has a lot of bad takes in Cinema Speculation, but maybe the worst is his tossed-off dismissal of Hermann’s Taxi Driver score (“asshole with a sax”)
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The Taxi Driver theme is the best because it begins with a crescendo of brass and percussion that sounds like you're entering hell. Then a single lonely saxophone starts to play the horniest melody ever written. This is Travis Bickle as music.
Bernard Herrmann Archive@HerrmannMovie
Bernard Herrmann composed music for films from 1941 to 1975. What is your favorite Herrmann film score?
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@david_j_roth It turns out the Indy Star is something worse than Hitler: Woke Hitler. And they’re lamestream as well.
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The "ultra woke" Indianapolis daily newspaper is trying to baselessly cancel our normal organization for using a Hitler quote in our newsletter,
twitter.com/Moms4Liberty/s…
Moms for Liberty@Moms4Liberty
Everyone knows Hitler is bad. This is intentional dishonesty in reporting, but we aren’t surprised- all they want is clicks. Do better @indystar The chapter shouldn’t have quoted Hitler without condemning him at the same time. They have issued a statement of apology to clear up any confusion.
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@ByYourLogic @boring_as_heck One child may be the greatest genius (shot of a kid writing “E=MC²” on a chalkboard), while the very next child may be the most dangerous psycho (B&W shot of a kid pretending to scream while he shoots a gun). But is it nature? (babbling brook) Or nurture? (mother holding baby)
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@boring_as_heck What is a person?
(rotating shot of a naked man’s body)
its more than just carbon and water. (really bad historical reenactors dressed as Shakespeare, Einstein, and King Tut sitting at a table thoughtfully debating). the body is how. But our mind is what
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watching the apple thing and am about to say something extremely nerdy
da messaging wars are in full swing and imessage is becoming v powerful.........
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@boring_as_heck @bransonreese ELON: Gin makes me retch but when the light catches bourbon in a priceless crystal cup, it’s hard not to smile…
DogeGary ✅: Mr. Musk please help, I am trapped in a laundry hamper
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@david_j_roth All else aside, it rocks that the investor class is so excited about offloading the work of “have a thought, any thought, no matter how insipid” to the machines
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I've criticized this guy for his significant ($500k) unpaid debt to Defector but I think he'd really watch and enjoy endless AI-written seasons of Succession, or any other show, because he engages it at the level of child looking at a Richard Scarry book.
twitter.com/Jason/status/1…
@jason@Jason
I know the writers are on strike... so I asked ChatGPT to come up with some plot lines *POST* the #succession season finale -- not a bad start! chat.openai.com/share/2cdcc1d4…
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Well, this is weird.
(And it looks like they all got deleted overnight.)
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@pattymo @david_j_roth My favorite blue-check replies are the ones where they just do completely brainless word association. Like “🎯 In the end, civilization, is all that matters…”
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/in the voice of the smartest man on earth "Soros remind me of Magneto." twitter.com/pixelatedboat/…
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@IllyBocean He’s what the Skinamarink demon looks like if you turn the lights on
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i simply hate to encounter the foul visage of the ungodly “Mr Beast”
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@boring_as_heck @dwayne_media MuskUniversity: “Technically speaking, the most perfectly functioning market is the human mind. The family is a close second.” - Elon Musk
QuizzicalJeffrey: 🙏Amen. The greatest organ, is the family. And true success, is family.
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@Srirachachau If anything, he should have gone back to edit guns into ET’s hands
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He agrees with everyone that thinks ET's life should be in jeopardy
Variety@Variety
Steven Spielberg says that he regrets editing guns out of “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial”: “No film should be revised based on the lenses we now are, either voluntarily, or being forced to peer through.” bit.ly/40TYnGN
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@david_j_roth @Ugarles This shit is also all just post-Trump Republicanism! They all pretend they hate foreign wars and attack Woke Capitalism! (The claim that he meaningfully addressed inequality is beneath mention.)
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@Ugarles This is such a funny argument. You have to have some actual values beyond being A Critic Of Liberalism, because if you don't you apparently feel like you've got to hand it to an overt third-position fascist because he, also, is critical of liberalism.
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Hannity is a bog standard bloviating AM radio racist republican and Tucker is a fascist faux populist whose anticorporate talk is completely divorced from worker interest and all culture war signaling. Tying him to any anti-war movement outside of "opposing Biden" is moronic.
Lee Fang@lhfang
Glenn Greenwald's point about libs hating Tucker & ignoring Hannity is right. Tucker is the only major media conservative figure to diverge, criticize US wars abroad, corporate & Wall St power, inequality. Hannity is normie GOP and doesn't remotely provoke as much lib interest.
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@jeremypgordon My college town had two competing alt-weeklies! I started in journalism with an internship turned freelance gig at one of them, and while the pay sucked, it was no worse (this was in 2007) than what you’d get per word at a lot of national pubs today
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Imagine going to college, and there's a box on every other corner that contains a 50+ page publication with original art and writing that summarizes the culture and counterculture of the day, and it comes out every week. We really did used to live in a society.
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I don't want to be fake nostalgic for an alt-weekly era I never lived through as an adult, but I'm doing related research for a piece and to say something dumb it is amazing how so many of these print publications were simply able to exist
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