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I liked the book a great deal, and I liked the adaptation. I'm not really sure what those who feel like this is a failed adaptation feel is missing from the movie. The tunnel/tower thing is basically unfilmable by its very nature. I suppose some of… [more]
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"I apologize if my response did not meet your expectations. As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I do not have the ability to attend open mic events or workshop my writing." [more]
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I am not the sort of person to think that end of human culture is nigh because some complex statistical models are getting better, but having played with ChatGPT for a while I do find some aspects of it a little worrying. It seems to excel at… [more]
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I think this one is a masterpiece, the only problem with it being that it is barely a horror movie at all. All the stuff about the possession is pretty much incidental to the actual horrifying story, which is that the source of the groom's family's… [more]
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If I have one criticism of the books, it's that the main crew tended to have too much plot armour. All kinds of crazy stuff happens to them, but they always survive. I agree, with the one exception of that doctor guy who came with them… [more]
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I really liked Dark, but this seemed kind of sloppy in comparison, not nearly as meticulously constructed and with a lot of apparently arbitrary choices, like why is it set in 1899 at all? The ending did intrigue me enough to want to tune in… [more]
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I really like the various ways this show is able to demonstrate psychic combat, like the wrestling scene here or the dance-off in the last episode. I always love reading about these kinds of things in novels and it's never seemed obvious how one… [more]
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This is an interesting reboot of JG Ballard's High-Rise but I think I prefer the original. [more]
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I definitely got the impression that Daniel is the grown-up version of the Boy, and there are several other indications of some timey-wimey stuff going on (the Prometheus looks an awful lot like a rebadged and aged-up Kerberos, for one thing)… [more]
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Yeah, this episode was also the catalyst for my partner to nope out of the series. [more]
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I liked this, as someone who is a fan of Showgirls's general WTF-ness, but it confirmed my preexisting suspicion that Verhoven is not so much a master of satire as a person with lurid bad taste and an impish sense of humor who sort of backed… [more]
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Oh, good idea, thanks Artw. I found the interview in the wayback machine: parts one, two, three, four, five. [more]
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Can we get Musk to purchase Facebook next? [more]
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Purely thinking of the technical issues here, because to me they seem much easier to solve than the community or funding issues... Has there been any discussion of open-sourcing the codebase and putting it up on GitHub or something? I don't think… [more]
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Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities: The Viewing
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I had high hopes for this for about the first half or so. Giving Gilman more of a motivation than "I like math" for exploring the cosmic beyond seemed like a good idea, and so did the spiritualist society, and updating the story so that… [more]
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My favorite thing about this episode is that it sets us up for tropes and then does the unexpected I was thinking the same thing. Ordinarily we'd see some kind of karmic punishment for the protagonist choosing to fit in with the work… [more]
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Damn, this one hurts. Low has been a life-long favorite for me, and Mimi Parker was so essential to them, and they all seemed like such decent, kind human beings. I had tickets to see them in Big Sur this October, but the show was canceled. I feel… [more]
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I liked this, but wound up a bit surprised that, at least on the surface, it's a pretty straightforward creature feature without much of the sharp social commentary that was in Peele's last two movies. (I was also hoping for something a skosh scarier,… [more]
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Glover's accent here seemed to be calculated to turn the viewer into an insane, gibbering mess, and Barnes's wasn't much better. [more]
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I liked this zinger from the article: Hire BETTER engineers! If a car can drive itself, surely a computer can understand fair use! [more]
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Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities: Dreams in the Witch House
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Yeah, I thought the bit where the woman whom he had wronged gave him his just desserts was a little on the nose, and this episode gestures towards larger themes about race and greed without actually saying anything interesting about them. The… [more]
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Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities: The Outside
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This is one of my favorite horror movies of its era, and a true sleeper. I will forever associate Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White with this movie, and it's got some great lines. "What was this before it was leftovers?" "It was… [more]
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I do miss this era of Onion video shorts, which includes such classics as 'Just Give Me The Damn Sepak Takraw Ball' and Are We Giving Robots Too Much Power?. The newer TikTok parodies and such don't pack the same zing for me, and I'm not sure what's… [more]
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Good episode. I sort of assumed that Otto meant to kill or imprison Aegon, thus putting the more temperate of Allicent's sons on the throne, but does he actually state his motivation for trying to get to Aegon first? Or am I misreading the situation? [more]
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Once thing I really liked about this movie was how it well managed the tricky business of turning the protagonist (mom) into the villain, and the antagonist (the kid) into the protagonist, at least for the stretch of time towards the end where she… [more]
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Slott Towing at the end there was clearly a reference to She-Hulk writer Dan Slott. Was that him playing the truck driver? (Edit: IMDB says no.) [more]
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Kind of a Rick and Morty spin on Severance here. I also enjoyed that Jerry's sense of basic niceness saved the day in the end. [more]
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Yeah, this seems like a really bad idea to me, one that will definitely not serve to change anyone's minds, and the emissions from the inevitable tow truck that will show up and idle in the street while they reinflate the tires will more than offset… [more]
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It doesn't look like anything to me. [more]
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daemon has to relinquish his dragon to someone else But I'm fairly sure that's not what happened. Daemon's dragon is red, with a long neck. The dragon that appeared in the last scene is grey and stockier. [more]
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Wasn't the Sea Snake just complaining in the last episode that his family didn't have any dragons? Where did the grey dragon that his son (brother?) was riding come from? [more]
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This is way better than I expected it to be. I expected to be annoyed by the Harfoots, but their nomadic pre-hobbit hunting and gathering society is actually an interesting counterpoint to what we know of them in the LoTR timeframe. So far I haven't… [more]
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I did enjoy thinking about this as being a possible future for Ryan Hansen's Party Down character (along with Blaze from Burning Love). Overall I liked it, it had a bit of Funny Games energy without the hectoring "you are a bad person for liking… [more]
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I think the bigger accomplishment here is that the the AI was able to generate a whole "Jason Allen" persona and fool a bunch of meatbags, including a Vice reporter, into thinking that a human being was behind the submission. [more]
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I really liked this. As a huge book nerd I was delighted by how many story beats they managed to stick in competently from the first half of the first book, including awesome flavor stuff I didn't expect to make it in like the Atreides sign language… [more]
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I really like this show and was a little bummed to see it drop off of FanFare (not bummed enough to post about it myself, though, I guess). For Season 2 I think maybe my favorite episode was the one where they're all at a monastery where everyone… [more]
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I really liked this, it definitely surpassed my expectations. I expected it to be "pretty cool, once you take the back-story about the film-making family into account" but it was just "pretty cool, full stop." It pulls off the… [more]
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This reminded me of Aronofsky's mother! in its unconcern with laying out a coherent story the audience could follow, but I thought it had a great sense of atmosphere and outstanding acting all around. I agree with miss-lapin that it seems… [more]
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Earlier this summer I was lucky enough to see a play based on Face/Off, in iambic pentameter and set in Roman times, chronicling the epic battle of Cagio and Travoltus. It was quite incredible, maybe my theater highlight of the year. John Woo is a… [more]
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The shot of the two kids biking around the neighborhood just like the Purcell kids did definitely mixed a little extra darkness into the ending for me. I thought the audio cues in the soundtrack when Hays is drinking that glass of water were meant… [more]
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No spoilers, but they seem have changed up Black Noir's origin story from the comics. While in general I'm in favor of ditching stuff from the comics because the comics are by and large on the awful side, I did think the Noir storyline from them had… [more]
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Yeah, I will forgive a movie a lot if it manages to set up a good atmosphere, and this one really did with its dreamy, desolate off-season beach town. I got strong Carnival of Souls vibes from it. The actual plot I was pretty meh on… [more]
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I liked this overall, but my favorite thing by far was Ransom's almost exclusive use of the James T Kirk double-punch technique. [more]
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The thing that didn't quite work was that there was such a heavy emphasis on relationships, but there wasn't really any time to explore those relationships. This has been the big problem for me with basically all the Marvel shows. I feel… [more]
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Gonna have to go be a farmer, learn a trade., something physical I can do with my hands. Definitely. First you'll need to start a subscription plan with John Deere for the software for your farm equipment, then it's time to look into… [more]
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MeFi comment - Two years ago

This was better than I expected. I can definitely see why some people would not love the darkness of the city but I thought it was pretty perfect for a "Batman vs Gotham" story where the city stands in for the endemic corruption and cruelty… [more]
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About the deer imagery, in the scene where the police chief is returning the dead dog, just before he leaves he looks over at the dog's owner's wife's front yard. At first I thought he was just thinking of stashing the dog there, but did the stuffed… [more]
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