goldteeth

@goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Both are still showing up full price for me, if that helps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  …Think it’s too late to get a refund?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Obligatory addendum that as a creation of Victor Frankenstein, calling the monster “a Frankenstein” is no more inaccurate than calling Guernica “a Picasso,” or a 1996 Camry “a Toyota.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maaan, all I got was some stupid spatulas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Once had an order arrive on-time, but the tracking information never got updated and kept telling me the package was “running late” and pushing back the expected delivery date, and then after like a week of that they just said “sorry, it’s been delayed indefinitely” and gave me a refund. For an order I’d already received. And I mean, I wasn’t gonna be the one to tell 'em they were wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Legal battle over Peter Cushing’s image in Star Wars to go to trial, judge rules⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be clear, this isn’t someone actually connected to the Cushing estate saying “hey man, that’s not cool,” because the estate did actually agree back when the film was being made eight years ago; this is some other studio claiming that, actually, it has the exclusive rights to puppeteer Peter Cushing’s digital ghost, because of some contract he signed back in the '90s or whatever.

  'Cause, y’know, nothing quite says “justice at work” like watching the all-consuming media conglomerate duke it out with the copyright trolls over who gets to do the deepfakes.

  ...

  Interesting that Disney has decided they should be allowed to dispute obscure fine print buried in a contract nobody could possibly remember signing…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Minecraft Movie | Teaser⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  surely, surely it must be possible to write a movie about a video game that does not include the words “mysterious portal to another world” anywhere in the synopsis. we’ve been doing this shit since the fucking hoskins mario movie, please, something’s gotta give

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brian Cox Says Cinema Is In “a Very Bad Way”, Cites Marvel, ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’: “It’s Become Party Time”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I mean, jeez, Elvis spends the entire middle of the 20th century taking beach vacations and playing cowboy on Paramount’s dime, raking in 3-4 million apiece (which was quite a lot back then) with half a script stapled to either end of an ad for his next record, and somehow that’s the golden era of Hollywood, but Hugh Jackman pretends to have an adamantium skeleton for the first time in seven years and suddenly culture’s being rotted from the inside-out by a new, omnipresent trend of performers wasting their talents goofing off for the frothing masses. Simple fact of the matter is cinema has been prioritizing screwing around with the audience over the illusion of artistic integrity since 1903 and anyone that says otherwise is probably selling something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brian Cox Says Cinema Is In “a Very Bad Way”, Cites Marvel, ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’: “It’s Become Party Time”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What is the alien truck fighting movie?

  Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, released a couple weeks before Oppenheimer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brian Cox Says Cinema Is In “a Very Bad Way”, Cites Marvel, ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’: “It’s Become Party Time”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I’d say probably 80% of the movies I listed as “less-than” are actually super rad and I was kinda just hoping nobody would notice. But it sure seems like this guy would take issue with them, so, sometimes we stretch the truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brian Cox Says Cinema Is In “a Very Bad Way”, Cites Marvel, ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’: “It’s Become Party Time”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well at the same time, I just think that’s more indicative of the progress of technology relative to the progress of the modern cinema. My TV is now very good, and films are released onto home media quite a bit faster than, say, the 40-year gap between the release of Gone with the Wind and the development of the consumer VCR. If I want to watch an expensive piece of audio-visual spectacle while it’s still part of the zeitgeist, that’s a pretty good reason to catch it early on a massive screen with Owlsey Stanley’s Wall of Sound blaring from all four directions. If I’m going to watch a three hour long character-driven, thought-provoking masterpiece that makes me re-evaluate the world and my place in it, I’d like to be able to do that in private on my couch with a bowl of soup and a thermostat volume knob I control, and not be wrenched suddenly from the pastoral vistas of St. Radegund by the stranger two rows down ordering a Taco Bell off his phone while I’m trying to process my complex emotions. And the pandemic sure didn’t help much either. The unfortunate fact of the matter is that for however much they’ve declined in recent years (and ignoring Guardians of the Galaxy III, which was far better than it had any right to be), the big-budget superhero blockbusters have been some of the few in recent memory to be able to deliver on both the visual spectacle to justify the day trip, the vice-grip on the public consciousness to demand seeing it right away, and, at least for a time, writing not so offensively dumb as to make it still possible to sit through. I think it’s less a sign of audiences becoming more concerned with spectacle than sincerity, and more a sign that people are being given more flexibility to engage with the medium at their own pace, and as a result the buzz around a given film doesn’t seem quite so pronounced as it isn’t all entirely done in unison. And while that does certainly hurt them at the box office, it’s not necessarily indicative that there isn’t a demand for them, just that people don’t have as much incentive to make a whole day trip out of one movie when they could just wait a few weeks and do it on their own terms. I don’t think it’s cinema that’s in a bad way, I think it’s just the cinema.

  Of course, this fellow made much my same point quite a bit better and quite a bit sooner and I’d be remiss not to acknowledge it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brian Cox Says Cinema Is In “a Very Bad Way”, Cites Marvel, ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’: “It’s Become Party Time”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, man. I don’t think you can say “cinema was better in the fifites when there weren’t all these cheap action movies and creature features and cash-grab sequels” as though On the Waterfront didn’t come out within three weeks of a movie about giant radioactive ants and the fifth remake of Robinson Crusoe. And yeah, sure, last year people were double-fisting a sprawling biopic about the man that flung the world irreversibly into the atomic age and a movie about singing plastic dolls, and finishing it off with a talking alien truck fighting a robot monkey… just like how eighty years ago Casablanca came out the same year as The Invisible Man’s Revenge and House of Frankenstein, sixty years ago people were just coming out of 2001: A Space Odyssey and turning right back around to go watch Charlton Heston punch a guy in a gorilla suit, forty years ago we got Amadeus hot on the heels of Police Academy and The Search for Spock, and nine years ago Spotlight and The Revenant were running trailers at the same time as Minions and Adam Sandler’s Pixels. This is not a new phenomenon, the past only looks better because nobody talks about the mediocre movies from that era anymore.

  And even barring that, I really don’t think you get to say “TV is doing cinema better than cinema these days” as though for every Chernobyl or Succession there aren’t eight NCIS spinoffs, three Big Bang Theory prequels, a Celebrity Golden Bachelor, Keeping Up with the Alien Ghosts of Skinwalker Ranch, and - guess what, bucko - a show with a bunch of superheroes running around punching each other in the dicks, or whatever. The ratio of “high art” to “party time” is damn near identical, the movies just have a bigger ad budget.

  So in the end, it seems all you’ve got left here is a guy starting a conversation about a new, topical thing and using that to segue into talking about a thing he made last year and how it’s so much better than new popular thing, and you should watch that instead. Thanks, Brian, super glad we had this talk.

  ~I guess I’m gonna feel real silly if I ever get around to watching Deadpool & Wolverine and end up agreeing with this guy.~

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Italian "newspaper" wanted to depict the "indian heritage" of an US candidate. Chennai, Cherokee, the same.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone, somewhere has misinterpreted the fact that US presidential candidate Kamala Harris (pictured center) is of Indian ancestry - as in her family is from the country in south Asia - and instead photoshopped her into the stereotypical Native American “Indian” aesthetic. Why they have chosen to do this eludes me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Oh, this new post already has a comment, let’s check it out! … Dang it!”

  That’s pretty much my gripe. One time I saw a post with maybe six, seven comments, opened it up, and they were all either the bot, or replies to the bot.

  And even if you block the bot the post still shows up as having comments. So you’ll open up a post boasting the aforementioned six or seven comments expecting to find a lively debate, or at least a wisecrack about global affairs, and leave with a bunch of tumbleweeds and the lingering knowledge that somewhere, two or more people are arguing with a machine about whether or not it thinks the newspaper is any good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can i make myself poisonous to mosquitos?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Now now, Batman, you should know that when a little pest like you dances with the Bug Zapper… He’d better be ready for a shock!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEPHALOPODS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “And as we can see from this computer model of continental drift in the late Triassic era… AS GOD AS MY WITNESS, THE SUPERCONTINENT OF PANGAEA IS BROKEN IN HALF!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oral-B bricking Alexa toothbrush is cautionary tale against buzzy tech⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I only purchased this toothbrush because that was the only way to get the water-resistant Entertainment Center/Speaker/Corporate Surveillance Device for the one room in my house that is the least comfortable, has the worst acoustics, and has the strongest expectation of privacy, and also I can’t just put a regular Alexa in like a plastic bag or something because I blew my plastic bag budget on a fucking app-controlled toothbrush or whatever the fuck this is supposed to be, jesus christ

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A healthy life goal⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, yeah, I saw a documentary about those once, from the '50s. I Love Lucy, they called it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will Smith Zombie Game No One Has Heard Of Bombs⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… Five minutes before the slap, he was sitting in his front-row seat at a nationally-televised award ceremony where he had just been nominated for two of the most coveted honors in cinema.