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  • You can’t use box office take to measure a movie’s success.

    Shawshank Redemption is often regarded as the best movie of all time. It was a box office flop.

    Battlefield Earth is often regarded as the worst movie of all all time. It was also a box office flop.

    Using those two examples, obviously the only true measure of a movie’s long term success is whether or not they overuse Dutch angles.

    If Folie a Deux doesn’t use a shit load of Dutch angles, maybe it’ll turn out OK.









  • One of my favorite books is called Inherit the Stars.

    Mankind is starting to reach out into the solar system, but finds a man on the moon entombed in a space suit, and he’s been dead for 50,000 years.

    It’d make a pretty good movie, 2 hours tops.

    It does one of my favorite things, by strongly blending two genres: mystery, and sci-fi. A sci-fi show, movie, or book that’s purely sci-fi is rarely good. Same goes for fantasy. Season 1 of Game of Thrones is good because it’s primarily a mystery/drama story in a fantasy setting. A New Hope is great because it’s a western, coming-of-age story in a sci-fi setting. Rebel Moon is garbage (for many reasons) because it’s pure sci-fi schlock with no nuance.



  • pachrist@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneat least rule
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    3 months ago

    I have a son that loves ballet. He’s 3 and loves to dance. I could beat him, because ballet is arbitrarily "girly, " or I could encourage him to do things he loves.

    I am much more interested in him being a kind, well-rounded person than I am interested in him being someone else’s stereotype of a man.

    I kind of still dislike some of the even more nuanced discussion around gender because it’s goal can still be to categorize. More precisely, but still occasionally hurtful. I would love for everyone to be happy as they are, undefined by anyone but themselves. I’ve known people who came through so many awful experiences, and some found comfort in the group acceptance of a new gender definition, but the ones I know who are happiest eventually shrug that off entirely and find full self-acceptance. It’s so hard to do, and not everyone can, but gender acceptance is only a stepping stone in the path to self-acceptance.




  • I hate this approach to business.

    Coupling subscriptions with forced obscolecence is a nightmare. If HP made the best printer money could buy, using it with a subscription model would be a hard sell. But they make shit printers that die at the drop of a hat, so coupling them with a subscription is asinine.

    Logitech makes a decent mouse, passable webcams, and shit keyboards.

    Just in case anyone from Logitech ever reads this, I own 2 MX Verticals, an MX Ergo, and an MX Master 2S. I love them all, but I’d rather use an OEM bog standard Dell mouse than pay for a subscription.