@GenePark I’m a sucker for Teezo’s whole thing on this track. Had no idea about the Daft Punk connection. Sending you positive vibes Gene!
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BluffWilliams
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@soonrightaway Wait. Weren’t you the one who made a big deal about that guy’s letterboxd joke? Feels like you probably have a lot of For Real unpopular opinions.
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i think one of my only For Real unpopular opinions is the stand up bits in Seinfeld are actually pretty funny
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@Srirachachau @FORBlDDENFRUITS Sometimes I see a take that seems weirdly bitter and a few days later something like this pops up.
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The critique that a modern work will not be remembered is pretty spurious to say in the present, impact's not really something you can predict without the time to reflect, good or ill, but it's also just a critique that oozes with resentment. What will you make that's remembered
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@sasimons Seth claims to write about “labor,” but he’s clearly just focused on a fight he picked (and lost) a decade ago. He’s like that Japanese guy who thought WWII never ended. Except that guy was cool.
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@darthgordita lol yeah, all filmmakers do this. Can’t think of a single non-hereditary type film.
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@Srirachachau all the cynicism is perfectly understandable taking into account most “critics” on Twitter are bitter and often tweet about their bad lives!
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@DarkDementus Vince to a child informant who is already crying and scared:
You can get killed walking your little doggy!!”
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there is a possibility, however slight, that the new nicolas winding refn film has not been collectively misunderstood by the entirety of the cannes audience; that it's actually just kinda bad.
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@stavvybaby Breen actually said “B-” and stopped himself but it was too late. My balls & penis were already sucked up inside myself.
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Thank you lord for that victory and more importantly for sparing the Knicks the indignity of losing on a Sam Merril Mike Breen “BANG”
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@iycrtylph “Like sorry”
quit apologizing and just shut the fuck up!
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like sorry the data center plot in Eddington is a great example of the filmmaker's lack of historical consciousness—these were not a big deal in 2020 even for the speculative capitalists driving their crash construction, the AI & data center bubble begins in 2022
pHiycrtyl@iycrtylph
Eddington, a film beneath discussion, is a nonetheless a great reminder that it was only a weird historical accident that for a brief period of time in the mid-20th Century (some) filmmakers were also intellectuals
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@filmboozed I really didn’t like it, but also who the fuck cares?
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none of you will shut up about this movie and how ~accurate it is about society~ as if accuracy were the only meaningful virtue for art
Daniel Keller@dnlklr
truly, the most underrated film of the century
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Convinced that this is what a certain actor filmmaker does, though it is combined with actual fans with questionable taste / low bars and others who for some reason have been charmed by his bullshit.
The bought / fake fans stuff always works well as a supplement to actual fans
New York Magazine@NYMag
Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients. The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show. In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views. “On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown. “Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.” Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: nymag.visitlink.me/w6Bu9N
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@TownTattle @sapphicspielbrg I know. I’m creating a whole new paradigm. Building an easier, better world for you.
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