@thogtalife @williamcbrennan Apocalypse now alone is more impressive than all three of those movies combined
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@jake__horst @williamcbrennan 🤷♂️ three hits in three years and not a single Twixt in his repertoire
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Francis Coppola directed four of the best movies ever made in less than ten years. If that's not greatness, what is?
Daniel Galleghost 🎃👻@BeanWalrus
I don't think it should be controversial to call spielberg or scorsese our greatest living filmmakers tbh
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@thogtalife @williamcbrennan Truly one of the wildest takes I’ve seen on this site and I love Denis
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@williamcbrennan The conversation, apocalypse now, TGF 1 and 2.
I love Coppola but fear this is the most impressive run of movies/years.
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@vanillaopinions Crazy thought but … don’t be an assh*le. I’m not religiously observant but I know people, my 88 year old mom for example, who pray every day. It should be possible to be an atheist without being a jerk, though many atheists seem to find that a major challenge.
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Is This Thing On? is almost cosmically a bummer of a movie, not only is it about a marriage falling apart, the husband then finds solace in stand up comedy
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@NegroLibre1 A move that damages the country to protect your family is a bad move. I think it’s incredibly unserious to not be able to understand that
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This is one of those decisions that I actually thought was not only the right call, but that a lot of Biden critics were completely unprepared for what was coming with Trump 2.0. Anyone who sees what's happening now and thinks it was a bad call is unserious to say the least.
NBC News@NBCNews
Hunter Biden acknowledged in an interview that his father’s presidential pardon of him tarnished his reputation as commander in chief and demonstrated that “he chose me over his legacy.” nbcnews.com/politics/joe-b…
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Looked into this Backrooms thing. Blender? No thanks. Are movies really just computer-generated slop now? The death of art.
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>I think sometimes they’re just overused these days.
Did he not watch movies growing up? Idk if anyone's attempted to quantify it but sex scenes are rarer and shorter than they ever have been in film and television, from my perspective.
evie@Eviemagazine
Henry Cavill shares he's not a fan of sex scenes: “Is it really necessary?” “I can’t get my head around sex scenes. I feel quite awkward about them. I think sometimes they’re just overused these days. I think it’s when you get that sense of, is this really necessary, or is it just people with less clothing on? Sometimes those scenes can add something great to a movie, but usually the human imagination will trump it. It’s a bit of a cop-out if a TV show or movie is just filled with gyrating bodies.”
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@nicolegelinas I'm really very confused as to what this beef is about, but I'm excited about the Knicks and hope you have a great weekend.
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People who know nothing about NYC, like @mattyglesias , and who just sort of wander by every once in a while to snark at people who do know something, will think, whatever, who cares. But MSG is a highly regulated company at the state and local level and the payoff for them to do legal "favors" like this for state and local officials is high. Caesar's wife and all that.
Nicole@nicolegelinas
Ah ... socialism for Mamdani, capitalism for everyone else! I finally figured it out. :) nypost.com/2026/06/11/us-…
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No, make buybacks illegal as they effectively were prior to 1982
This system of stock buybacks is about the purest demonstration of value extraction and redistribution to enrich already-wealthy shareholders
Americans For Tax Fairness@4TaxFairness
BREAKING: America's biggest corporations have spent $4.8 TRILLION on stock buybacks since Trump cut corporate taxes in 2017. Worker pay isn't keeping up with inflation. Costs are skyrocketing. But executives are getting richer and richer. Raise the tax on stock buybacks.
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@Acyn And exactly what is the point of 13 versus 9 versus 73 versus 195? Why do you need 13 people to decide the constitutionality of some question? You don’t. What you want is the extra people on your team for as long as they can be on your team. Why? To seize complete control.
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Buttigieg: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that there have to be nine Supreme Court justices. That one doesn't even take a constitutional amendment. It just takes a readiness to set up a court that fits this country.
We could have 13 seats matching the district structure of the federal judiciary, but also a process that makes it less partisan. We cannot have partisan warfare every time there's an opening on the court
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@Uncle_Charlie_7 @Acyn He wants to actually make the court not partisan
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@Acyn This is actual totalitarianism. Destroying institutions so you can get your way is what all strong men do. They all couch it as being “a man of the people” as they turn citizens against one another by stacking the decks
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@lost_nomad__ All of them are still growing in wealth. If they really cared they’d actually donate their wealth and not just marginal dollars to them. Theres a time value of money on this stuff
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Maybe a hot take? but we are in a pretty good place right now on this. Zuckerberg is correct
The world’s richest people are chasing things that genuinely would improve humanity. Space colonization, medicine, scientific breakthroughs
I have no doubt the slopulists will paint this stuff as somehow terrible, but the facts are the facts
No Priors@NoPriorsPod
Mark Zuckerberg wanted to cure, prevent, and manage all diseases by the end of the century. He and Priscilla then had a series of meetings where Nobel Prize-winning scientists laughed at them. Now Zuckerberg says, "I thought that by the end of the century was a stretch. Now I think it's too conservative." Full episode linked in replies.
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They invented an analogue to aspartame for fat called EPG that follows the same idea (bind to taste receptors, but can't be metabolized for calories). Actually insane lol, kind of want to try it!
may@maybellinaa
new 70cal ice cream by davids protein whattt
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@RaveBabyBecca @Nate_Sinclair @TheWillowWay69 It feels like you haven’t actually thought seriously about these topics
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@Nate_Sinclair @jake__horst @TheWillowWay69 Nah, the exploitation happened during the production. It just became even more indefensible given the success of the film.
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Huh, I was told this simply wasn’t possible for like three full days. It turns out we actually do have the technology to divide one number by another number and utilize direct deposit. Crazy.
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
Capstone, the company that financed ‘OBSESSION’, is estimated to make $45M - $50M from the film after its success. They will share this with the creative team, including director Curry Barker. (Source: thewrap.com/creative-conte…)
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@RaveBabyBecca @TheWillowWay69 It’s honestly an interesting question if you were really thinking about it. Is the labor on this film worth more? Is the labor on a film that loses money worth nothing?
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@TheWillowWay69 So you’re saying it was always possible to split the profits with the people that made the film, it’s just that there is a certain group of exploited workers locked out of the surplus value of their labor? We, as a society, should fix that maybe.
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@kevinmelvinago @stargazing90 No it’s not. There’s no account holding your money
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@stargazing90 Dumbass it’s your money saved for you in when retirement or injuries and can’t work how hard is it to understand that
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Everyone okay with that? They took money from every pay check ever had and spent it somewhere else..pissed yet?
CBS News@CBSNews
Social Security is on track to become insolvent by the end of 2032, putting benefits at risk of a 22% cut. cbsn.ws/4umfAHh
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@al90009h @stargazing90 And what is this analysis getting wrong exactly?
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@stargazing90 This is not true. Social Security will not be insolvent. They are scaring people to justify cutting it. Remember who owns CBS.
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Bang. Fuck you @UHC you lecherous freaks
Charlie Cummings@klaytheist11
An insurance company is trying to kill my life partner. Felt it was appropriate to write down the rage I feel
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@LizardiMorales @grizzlikesfilm Still an interpretation. You’re not getting the point - people are being annoying about how others are interpreting the film and there is not a right answer
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@jake__horst @grizzlikesfilm Except, later in the movie, his interpretation is confirmed. That whole incest poem wasn't a coincidence.
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people misunderstanding this interaction will always piss me off
Luminous leads@Luminouslead
Nikki looked disappointed in Bear’s answer
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