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- Comment on Nick Offerman Slams ‘Homophobic Hate’ Against His ‘The Last of Us’ Episode: ‘It’s Not a Gay Story. It’s a Love Story, You A–hole!’ 8 months ago:
The episode was directed by the same guy who directed all of “It’s a Sin”, another incredible bit of telly.
- Comment on Why Dune is Star Wars for Adults 8 months ago:
To quote George Lucas, they’re for “for 12-year olds”, so they’re living up to his intent, I guess.
- Comment on Why Dune is Star Wars for Adults 8 months ago:
I’m sure there’ll be a billion other comments saying the same thing, but Dune was written before Star Wars, so it’s more accurate but nowhere near as provocative to say that Star Wars is Dune for children.
- Comment on ‘True Detective: Night Country’ Is One Of The Most Disappointing Mystery Shows Ever Made 9 months ago:
Whatever you think about the season, this sort of ‘Worst Thing Ever!’ is blatant clickbait for groups on social media that are working themselves into a froth about nothing. The author is just scouring Reddit and YouTube, and throwing their shitty takes back at them for easy likes.
- Comment on Zombie Sequel ’28 Years Later’ Lands at Sony (Exclusive) 9 months ago:
I think after the Dredd debacle, Garland has directed all his own movies, so it’ll be interesting to see another one written by him but directed by Boyle.
- Comment on Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” 9 months ago:
It’s guaranteed to be worse: TV episodes are completely structured around whether the creators expect ads, and where in the runtime the ad will be (so they can resolve or tease a plot point before them).
The addition of ads, or having more ad breaks than the original transmitter of a show had, will break the structure.
And then of course there’s the ‘Spotify question’: are these ads genuinely supporting a subscription, or are they there to annoy you into paying for one by disrupting the flow of an episode as much as possible?
- Comment on RANT : The thing i miss from reddit is that when a series or movie came out or ended there would be a big discussion threads. 9 months ago:
If you’re wanting everyone to agree with how bad something is, that’s another way people want this place to be like Reddit, I guess. 4000 comments, only one acceptable opinion.
I’ve heard rumblings of dissatisfaction with the show, but it’s not a rabbit hole I’m keen to go down. Since there’s not much else on at minute, it’s tricky to distinguish genuine criticism from the opportunism of dunking on something popular for the algorithm boost.
It’s clear from its title that it’s as much its own show set in the TD universe as it a genuinely new season. It hints at some overlap - Rust’s dad, the Tuttle foundation, places out of time and ancient evils - but it’s equally invested in the legacy of Clarice Starling and it’s own spooky weirdness.
Episode 3 hinted at development problems - the kind of plot intricacies that every show struggles with, and is dependent on how invested viewers are as to whether they forgive them or not. But nothing so far that suggests it warrants a pile-on of negativity.
- Comment on Official Trailer for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 9 months ago:
Oh cool - Carrie Coon’s in this (though the trailer doesn’t feature her much). Was mad seeing her in a Gone Girl rewatch after finishing the latest Gilded Age season - she’s got an impressive range.
- Comment on Supergirl Found: Milly Alcock to Play Heroine in James Gunn’s DC Movies 9 months ago:
Would’ve thought so, unless they’re wanting to add time jumps backwards as well as forwards.
- Comment on [Kind of weekly thread] What have you been watching? 9 months ago:
I saw a fan-edit of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines called ‘Terminator 3: The Coming Storm’.
It cuts out all the goofy stuff from the original, leaving a tight 90-minute dystopian thriller that I really enjoyed.
It’s only available in DVD-type quality, but I didn’t mind (I’ve only got a 1080p projector).
- Comment on Does ‘American Fiction’ signal the end of Hollywood’s woke era? 9 months ago:
In a fit of self-loathing, I viewed the page via 12ft.io to circumvent the paywall.
It doesn’t get better. “As an educated, heterosexual, Christian black man”, the author enjoyed “Boyz n the Hood,” “Menace II Society,” “Baby Boy,” “New Jack City,” “Sugar Hill,” “American Gangster,” and “Training Day” even though they didn’t represent his lived experience.
These are all films directed ages ago by men, but - somehow - it’s only possible to depict black men like this due to modern Hollywood ‘wokeness’. If you wanted to a black character to be - I don’t know - a policeman or a chocolatier, it wouldn’t be possible. This is why Wonka and Fargo Season 5 weren’t produced, and we never got to see them.
It’s 'cos of the women, you see? Matriarchs, like - um - Tyler Perry, prevent black heterosexual men from been shown as anything other than criminals. They know it’s the only thing white liberals will accept.
The author mostly liked ‘American Fiction’, in having the courage to unravel this great conspiracy. Apparently, it’s great to see to someone like him on screen, because Representation Matters of course, but he didn’t like the LGBTQ elements, because representation of people unlike him doesn’t matter, and that’s just “gay mafia pandering”.
- Comment on Christopher Eccleston Says ‘A-List Actress’ Accused Him of ‘Copping a Feel’ While Filming Sex Scene: ‘It Was an Abuse of Power, What She Did’ 9 months ago:
I imagine so. But I think it’s more the case that allegations don’t arise in the first place if the actors have the opportunity to establish who’s going to put what hand where before filming even starts.
- Comment on Christopher Eccleston Says ‘A-List Actress’ Accused Him of ‘Copping a Feel’ While Filming Sex Scene: ‘It Was an Abuse of Power, What She Did’ 9 months ago:
There’s been grumblings from older actors about the need for intimacy coordinators. As Eccleston acknowledges in the article - this is one of the reasons why.
- Comment on [Kind of weekly thread] What have you been watching? 10 months ago:
Fargo’s just finished an entertaining run. I wasn’t sure about the finale, but I’m going to watch it again now I know what they were going for (also, it had so many fade-to-blacks for what would be an ad-break that that I thought ‘is this the final scene?’ about 5 times).
True Detective’s back! Sort of: there was a clearly a show called Night Country that’s been Cloverfielded into the franchise. But Jodie Foster’s awesome (obvs) and the first episode was good, slightly spooky, fun.
I’ve got about 10 minutes left of ep 1 of Monsieur Spade - it’s handsome stuff, but required more concentration than I had last night.
Season 4 of Taskmaster New Zealand is really funny. If nothing else, someone like Bubba shows how comfortably middle-class the UK version has got.
Oh, and I’ve downloaded - but not watched yet - a show called Criminal Record (it’s got Peter Capaldi in it)
- Comment on Trending Communities for Thursday 30th November 2023 11 months ago:
Stats for Programmer Humour:
2023-11-24: 0.00% programmer_humor@programming.dev 824 Active Users
2023-11-25: -0.04% programmer_humor@programming.dev 818 Active Users
2023-11-26: -2.15% programmer_humor@programming.dev 776 Active Users
2023-11-27: -0.32% programmer_humor@programming.dev 760 Active Users
2023-11-28: 58432.75% programmer_humor@programming.dev 7424 Active Users
2023-11-29: 4.51% programmer_humor@programming.dev 7607 Active Users
2023-11-30: 8.68% programmer_humor@programming.dev 7864 Active Users28/11 is when they changed how active users are counted on programming.dev. That 54K percent increase will continue to effect the 7 day average for the next few days.
- Comment on Trending Communities for Tuesday 28th November 2023 11 months ago:
I don’t know much about federation issues with programming.dev, but I think the reason why there’s so many results from that instance is they’ve changed how active users are calculated for their communities. Instead of it being just users who post and comment, it’s now users who post, comment or vote on anything.
I saw a post about it yesterday (in their Meta community I think), and wondered how it would affect these lists. I’ll have to see what it’s like in the coming days (that instance will seem way more active than every other instance, but each community’s activity growth should stabilise, hopefully)
- Comment on Trending Communities for Saturday 25th November 2023 11 months ago:
Nothing on here should really be abandoned: if it seems so, it’s usually either for language reasons, or because your instance’s copy of a community isn’t (yet) showing everything that’s on the original. I often look at the original (i.e instance/c/community, not myinstance/c/community@instance) to determine what’s going on.