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- Comment on With a budget of $120 million, Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis" grossed only $4 million on its opening weekend, making it one of the worst box office openings for a $100M+ movie to date. 16 hours ago:
It’s definitely worth watching. I can’t say I fully understood it on one watch, the time stopping ability is clearly a metaphor, but I’m not settled on what for yet.
It started with Caesar, then passed collaboratively to his wife, then their baby.
Edit I’ve been thinking about it tonight and I think I have it…
At the start, the Architect can stop time, as an architect, he has the ability to form a lasting, permanent impression on the world around him. His posterity as it were.
Through the film, he loses that level of influence, and similarly loses the ability to stop time.
When he falls in love, he regains a level of influence over his destiny, and so does she. They can stop time together, but not separately.
The film ends with their baby stopping time, as his permanent impact on the world has been transferred to a new generation. Father and mother are frozen in time as the baby moves forward.
Edit Having now seen it a 2nd time on UHD, yes, I think I had it right.
Bonus - the UHD is not avaiable in the US, but it is region free if you import it from the UK. The Blu Ray that comes with it has the bonus features and it’s region locked, but that’s a solvable problem.
- Comment on Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis" has ended its theatrical run after just 4 weeks with only $12.5 million, against its $120 million budget. 17 hours ago:
It’s definitely worth watching. I can’t say I fully understood it on one watch, the time stopping ability is clearly a metaphor, but I’m not settled on what for yet.
It started with Caesar, then passed collaboratively to his wife, then their baby.
Edit I’ve been thinking about it tonight and I think I have it…
At the start, the Architect can stop time, as an architect, he has the ability to form a lasting, permanent impression on the world around him. His posterity as it were.
Through the film, he loses that level of influence, and similarly loses the ability to stop time.
When he falls in love, he regains a level of influence over his destiny, and so does she. They can stop time together, but not separately.
The film ends with their baby stopping time, as his permanent impact on the world has been transferred to a new generation. Father and mother are frozen in time as the baby moves forward.
Edit Having now seen it a 2nd time on UHD, yes, I think I had it right.
Bonus - the UHD is not avaiable in the US, but it is region free if you import it from the UK. The Blu Ray that comes with it has the bonus features and it’s region locked, but that’s a solvable problem.
- Comment on Marathon | Reveal Cinematic Short 2 days ago:
How long before they cut out half the game and blame the players?
- Comment on Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN 5 days ago:
Or how the “Chat Button” is pay gated after the first year…
- Comment on Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN 6 days ago:
“This is the stuffed crust… filled with cheese and pepperoni. It’s like calzone in a bread stick form factor!”
- Comment on Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN 6 days ago:
You expect Nintendo to do MULTITASKING? ;)
- Comment on Why Did the Government Declare War on My Adorable Tiny Truck? 1 week ago:
I mean, it’s right there a few paragraphs in:
“Kei trucks do not meet the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, or FMVSS — the highly specific rules cars US-market new cars must meet.”
They skirt this by not being new cars, you import 25 year old cars instead, but that doesn’t change the fact that they don’t meet standards.
- Comment on Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN 1 week ago:
It’s kind of like the Valve demo that’s free on the Steam Deck to go through all the features on the machine, except not as interesting.
- Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGNwww.ign.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 64 comments
- Comment on Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources. 1 week ago:
Dear Tobi Lütke - AI can do your job too. Care to comment?
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 1 week ago:
I watched the Third Man next which was fascinating. Lots of similar shadow use.
- Comment on Why Do Sites Keep Shoving Features We Don’t Want Down Our Throats? 1 week ago:
Dear Microsoft - Stop trying to make Copilot happen!
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 1 week ago:
“TELL ME! WHO’S PRESIDENT IN 2025 - DONALD TRUMP??!?!”
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 1 week ago:
In before Muzak version of Blood Sugar Sex Magik. :)
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 1 week ago:
I wanted to watch the OG Nosferatu before the new one, my wife could not stop laughing.
“No! This serious horror movie!”
(snort)
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 1 week ago:
If Back to the Future came out today, they would be going back to 1995.
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 1 week ago:
As much as I hate to admit it, yes. That’s 30 years ago now.
Think of it like this… If Back to the Future came out today, they would be going back to 1995.
🤯
Movies from 1955 were old in 1985, so movies from 1995 are old now.
- Comment on John Oliver faces defamation lawsuit from US healthcare medical director 1 week ago:
Someone needs to introduce this guy to the Streisand effect.
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The full quote, in context, IS NOT BETTER.
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The only reason I maintain Max is John Oliver and, while I remember this show NOW, I had completely forgotten it until this story.
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- Comment on How's them tariffs going 1 week ago:
Fortunately, my company seems mostly immune to the news… because we’re fully capable of tanking our own stock price, thank you very much!
- Comment on ‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 Finale Is 90 Minutes, Longest Episode in the Series 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, never seen either of those either, I heard about Succession, not interested in Murdoch family as a TV show. LOL.
- Comment on ‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 Finale Is 90 Minutes, Longest Episode in the Series 2 weeks ago:
Unfamiliar with the show, sounds like a night time soap opera based on the “loose ends” block in the article?
“Who fired the gunshots heard at the beginning of the series? Whose body is found floating in the hotel pond? What will happen between Belinda and Greg/Gary after his proposition? Will Timothy succumb to the darkness, and will he take any of his family members down with him? Will Gaitok confront the Russians after his realization at the Muay Thai match? Will the brothers ever talk about that sickening threesome?”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Less the naked part and more the neighbors don’t need to see my growing collection of scar tissue. :( Shit, I don’t need to see that!
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Not a sauna guy, I’m a hot tub guy, but I’d think clothing in the sauna would trap heat and sweat and be less healthy?
- Comment on When is easter even? Saw some slop already in a group 2 weeks ago:
Man, I don’t even know…
Google says… 4/20.
- Comment on Iron Fist Actor Finn Jones Continues To Advocate For His MCU Return 2 weeks ago:
Oh, it’s definitely better than Iron Fist, but the simple assertion that “there was nobody else on the platform” would have been debunked by cameras.
The worst part is, they could have fixed it with one line of dialog.
“It’s cool, my buddy at transit took care of the cameras.”
- Comment on Iron Fist Actor Finn Jones Continues To Advocate For His MCU Return 2 weeks ago:
I dunno, man, the first plot arc was about how a guy got into a fight with some cops on a subway platform and somehow it’s the one platform in NY with no security cameras?
- Comment on Iron Fist Actor Finn Jones Continues To Advocate For His MCU Return 2 weeks ago:
Probably would have helped if he would have stopped introducing himself:
“Danny Rand, the immortal iron fist, protector of Kun Lun and sworn enemy of the hand.”
“That’s not gonna fit on the Starbucks cup…”
- Comment on If you haven't done and agree, vote! 2 weeks ago:
There was a bullshit explanation, that as time went on proved to be a lie, yeah.
- Comment on James Bond Sean Connery 4K steelbook collection is up for preorder 2 weeks ago:
The giant blu-ray set of all Bond was great! Not sure I need to re-buy Connery.
