childish insults

That’s rich coming from a person who evidently believes that Dr. Seuss and Grinch are the same entity.

But please, tell me, who is the character in question?

I don’t give a shit about NIN’s lyrics, at least not on that album, and still I can comprehend that many popular songs employ the device of an imagined protagonist recounting a fictitious tale of their life.

This is like saying that you hate ‘Apocalypse Now’ and ‘Full Metal Jacket’ because you hate army.

Not much of a life. Larvae can already be argued to be the main stage of life in many insects, as they get to chill around and munch on plants for ages, while adults have to fly somewhere, shag, lay eggs and croak. With these wasps, the adult male has things way more straightforward for him, and the female seems to not even get to enjoy the larval stage.

I mean, a fruit with seeds is formed from a flower after pollination. It’s just that on the figs, the flower is apparently inside the unripe fruit.

I don’t care what the department is called, but I don’t remember it doing much defense except for a brief time in WW2.

Yeah, but his films are all hermetic and self-contained, there’s nothing for me in them except the gimmick. I have no desire to rewatch ‘Tenet’ or ‘Inception’, because understanding the story better gives me absolutely bupkis. The stories aren’t in any way connected to the wider world and have zero impression on my life afterwards. Like, the mystery in ‘The Name of the Rose’ is a gimmick, but it remains interesting because it has layers and lots of connections to history and stuff.

If Nolan directed some kinda sci-fi ‘Robinson Crusoe’, I might’ve been left with an urge to build a hut and defensive walls and gather resources, like it happened with the book and some of Cory Doctorow’s novels. But his films don’t even give me that. It’s kind of an achievement in itself, really.

P.S. Actually, there are plenty of self-contained gimmicky films that I still want to revisit sometimes. E.g. ‘Man with a Movie Camera’ entirely consists of editing tricks, but it works. Lynch’s films are self-contained and often don’t even have a story. Idk what it is with Nolan’s films, but they’re dry as fuck.

Translation from book to movie is always incomplete

I wouldn’t say ‘always’, since plenty of books don’t have anything besides what would be shown on the screen.

But also, conversely, cinema allows for things that can’t be put in a book. Lynch’s films can’t be turned into books with a semblance of the same effect — even though literature has its own surreal tradition, and Ballard, Kobo Abe or Murakami don’t quite work in film. And the notion of novelizing ‘Man With a Movie Camera’ doesn’t even make sense.

60fps exists… why don’t we just use that for movies

Originally because it felt like tv shows, which were shot in 60 fps and were pretty shitty from the artistic standpoint.

as an introvert… I never went to a theater

As also an introvert, I can report that you’re not forbidden from going to movies alone nor are you required to interact with anyone other than getting to your seat. The theatre is not much of a wow factor for me personally, but others likely get more out of it.

There are good action films, namely ones where action isn’t the whole thing. E.g. ‘Terminator 2’, the original ‘Total Recall’, ‘True Lies’, or ‘One Battle After Another’.

He’s a good director, but he keeps making gimmicky films. Someone should hire him with an actually good story.

Hideaki Anno reportedly dealt hilariously with this: when fans started complaining that the ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ was getting weird, he doubled down on the confusion. Well NGE is now a modern classic worldwide.

Throwback to this great rant:

So apart from tumblr fanbase, why doesn’t /tv/ like this show?

Because it has smart characters written stupidly.

Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men is a smartly written smart character. When Chigurh kills a hotel room full of three people he books to room next door so he can examine it, finding which walls he can shoot through, where the light switch is, what sort of cover is there etc. This is a smart thing to do because Chigurh is a smart person who is written by another smart person who understands how smart people think.

Were Sherlock Holmes to kill a hotel room full of three people. He’d enter using a secret door in the hotel that he read about in a book ten years ago. He’d throw peanuts at one guy causing him to go into anaphylactic shock, as he had deduced from a dartboard with a picture of George Washington carver on it pinned to the wall that the man had a severe peanut allergy. The second man would then kill himself just according to plan as Sherlock had earlier deduced that him and the first man were homosexual lovers who couldn’t live without eachother due to a faint scent of penis on each man’s breath and a slight dilation of their pupils whenever they looked at each other. As for the third man, why Sherlock doesn’t kill him at all. The third man removes his sunglasses and wig to reveal he actually WAS Sherlock the entire time. But Sherlock just entered through the Secret door and killed two people, how can there be two of him? The first Sherlock removes his mask to reveal he’s actually Moriarty attempting to frame Sherlock for two murders. Sherlock however anticipated this, the two dead men stand up, they’re undercover police officers, it was all a ruse. “But Sherlock!” Moriarty cries “That police officer blew his own head off, look at it, there’s skull fragments on the wall, how is he fine now? How did you fake that?”. Sherlock just winks at the screen, the end.

This is retarded because Sherlock is a smart person written by a stupid person to whom smart people are indistinguishable from wizards.

‘Man With a Movie Camera’ is great for this.

casting The Rock in a Paul Thomas Anderson

Would that it were so simple.

‘Black Mirror’ was great because I don’t know anyone in it.

Europe had no trouble sanctioning Russia for the war, and I’m sure they wouldn’t want to be hypocritical.

Conservatism typically assumes that much of the world is a zero-sum game, so for one to prosper someone else must be worse off. Instead of them collaborating for a better outcome.

The queen of mixed signals

Did you mean to say plants instead of animals, or…?

I keep wondering if the inability to understand that a character is not the artist is a particular mental illness, or just regular abject stupidity. If you ever get diagnosed, please let me know.