@MorganFailchild
Starting to get the sense that every transvestigator has a deep unconscious belief that they are literally the only cis person left in the world, that they’re living trans I Am Legend
@DaSkrubKing
“I sprayed a bug with RAID and it died. That said, I am much bigger so if I spray a bunch in my mouth, nothing will happen.” - the toxin understander
@ThatAldenDiaz
gonna take a leap and say that people mean “over the last 15 years there have been roughly 70 superhero films, largely produced by the same two studios, following the same template. they’ve come to dominate cultural conversation, and that’s worn many people out”
@chaedria
“i was able to find this person based only on his full name and a clear picture of his face.”
look at you, Sherlock!
actually, since you love acting like a cop, i have a movie you might like. don’t know if you’ve heard of it…
@imbobswaget
it’s also very funny to be like “you hate my film because you don’t support Black people” when you opted not to cast or pay any Black actors bc it was cheaper to create Black people with a computer. That seems pretty dehumanizing.
@bornposting
living on the very borders of Mordor, at the behest of a father who has gradually been broken by a Palantir, tasked with defending his city at all costs…you understand why the Ring has such sway over him
@voresbian
i like how they seem to believe Jesus will eventually return for Armageddon and all that but meanwhile he’ll sometimes just do like a pop-in, maybe to run an errand or just go for a walk. This isn’t the official Second Coming, he was just craving some mini-donuts from the Safeway
@LaNoireDe
“hmm…i was extremely rude to you completely unprovoked and, as a result, you don’t like me. Fascinating. i will have to study this perplexing phenomenon.”
@_Sheehogue_
she’s like if Gwyneth Paltrow played in the NFL for 35 years.
the cops find her at 4 PM swaying like a willow and telling a mailbox something like
“when you found my stream
you drank until you drowned
but now you’ve tapped it
and bottled my want”
Just Girlboss CTE vibes
@bloomographer
@ecto_fun
okay now let’s look at what Shelley Duvall said. Pretty disgusting to continually contradict a living woman who has discussed the subject over and over, so you can feel righteous on Twitter
@mishajackles
shocked that i didn’t have to take a quiz at the end where i was asked to select who was wrong and who was right in order to move to the next training module
@mattxiv
it’s pretty crazy that trans people were invented on Sept 12, 2001. i remember popping into existence as a fully formed trans woman being like “9/11?? what’s that, mommy?!”
@kathbarbadoro
okay but that’s too nuanced and complex understanding of the ways misogyny, racism, and colonialism amplify each other! and the other one has a Billie Eilish songs and and ends by saying true realized womanhood is having a vagina
@detachment_red
“i used to be gay but then i saw my dad take a naked shit in the woods after he got food poisoning from eating the wrong berries. i’m now constitutionally incapable of looking at a man with anything but disgust.”
@epistemophagy
@verdantdew
@dia_vis
so…what you’re saying there are material and environmental factors that make acting in one’s own self-interest seem beneficial and reactionary media uses that to connect those factors to the ideas it wants to push, radicalizing people around said ideas?
@ThatAldenDiaz
also probably only compounds the fatigue when it feels like there’s no end in sight with those two major studios telling you they’re each gonna be releasing another 10 or whatever movies and shows of the same ilk over the next 5-7 years
@GunBrandisher
good interviewing can be asking somewhat broad questions that you think will give your subject the space to talk about interesting shit, right? Damon spoke about that bc the question prompted him to. It’s not about seeming smart as an interviewer. The interviewee is the point
@EvilKeaton
it’s an easy (and lazy) assumption to make. Bird came up through Disney when the animation division was at its worst and was disgusted that the corporate complacency was stifling talented artists and giving kids soulless dreck. That explains his philosophy far more than Ayn Rand.
@Crispy_3lijah
@queersocialism
As a Jew, i cannot be mad at these children. What I can be mad at is that when Israel commits these atrocities, they say they do them on our behalf. Israel decimates Palestine and then tells those in the rubble “We are the Jewish state. We do this on behalf of the Jewish people.”
@ZeroSuitCamus
*cracking his knuckles and rolling his neck*
“Alright, Justin. You almost got her. Now to break out the Don Rickles Chinese person impression.”
@gothspiderbitch
throwing a tantrum over people not calling you by your chosen name and acting like they know you and your story better than you know yourself.
weird.
@nosiejaron
@WrittenByHanna
This is a fantastic response to the movie. it engages with it honestly and generously, while not shying away from the issues he sees
@skjask
Israel is more like a white lady in that she’ll do something horribly racist, then whip out her phone and start sobbing crocodile tears the second she gets a whiff of the consequences
@KatieJRogers
@arod_twit
They pay their workers pennies on the dollar and the more you use them, the more that business model is vindicated.
If you want to keep ordering food, just say that. Don’t act like spending 50 bucks on Shake Shack is ensuring a driver has a roof over their head.
@epistemophagy
@verdantdew
@dia_vis
i feel like you’re fundamentally misunderstanding what people are saying (bc in this tweet you’re kinda making the same argument but just jumbling the cause and effect). Fox radicalizing people doesn’t ABSOLVE them of their fucked up beliefs, but if we care at all about…
@JohnDiLillo
it’s so funny that Marvel was like “we’re going to bring back these two massive characters for our epic climax!! and all they could come up with to reintroduce them was “uhhh…they walk into someone’s living room”
@coopercooperco
You could add up every feud between members of the Eagles and it wouldn’t amount to 1/3 of how much I believe Brian May resents Freddie Mercury
@epistemophagy
@verdantdew
@dia_vis
understanding how we got here and how to fight against it, we can’t do a dumb socialist secular version of Calvinist predetermination. some person’s uncle in rural Idaho didn’t just magically decide that it was important to *his life* that Israel be allowed to commit genocide
@PoorOldRoloTony
Ebert was a great critic and entitled to his opinions. but he could be incredibly moralistic and paternalistic. All fans of slashers hated women. Actresses didn’t have agency.
For a man whose thesis was “movies create empathy,” his empathy was often pathetically conditional
@fisackerly
i think Girls is like 80% brilliant, and a lot of that is in spite of Dunham. it’s an interesting piece of art where it feels like she’s self-aware by accident
@GodAllMighty12
me, a naturalistic director: “let me make this look as obviously green screened as possible. i need this framing to look utterly stupid. i want every character to move like rubber. make my hero look like Gumby.”
@fellawhomstdve
it’s insane how SW nerds will smugly criticize the Canto Bight stuff as if “tangent of random hijinks” isn’t a hallmark of both the original and prequel trilogies. And, for all Canto Bight’s faults, it’s actually making an interesting point
@indianloonie
framing what the Manson gang did on Cielo Drive as “disrespecting the Hollywood old guard” and conveniently leaving Tex out of the group…A+ good faith criticism
@CHofferCBus
when are we gonna get a horny update of Guess Who?
“Does your person have fuck-me eyes? Would your person eat my ass on the bathroom changing table of a modest chain restaurant? Is your person hung like a whale?”
@pfaffphobic
don’t know if any lyricist has stunted harder than Ashman w/ “I thrill when I drill a bicuspid/It’s swell though they tell me I’m maladjusted.”
@staidindoors
if she played her cards right she could have eventually got her own spin-off of a spin-off and achieved heretofore unknown levels of artistic satisfaction
@Crispy_3lijah
@queersocialism
What do you expect these children to think when the people who murder their friends and families have been designated the executor of the Jewish will, have co-signed all our names to their horrors. I can’t take honest account of what these kids suffer and then be shocked
@basedgizmo
i adore Evil Dead (2013) and i was shocked at how fucking tame Romulus was. Everyone was talking about the third act and like…??that’s just a creature from the Strain, a show that aired on cable??
@formlessflesh
@ThatAldenDiaz
and people who love zombie movies didn’t get this defensive when a lot of folks were like…eh, im getting a little tired of this
@TheAlexSylvian
it’s both a different situation and not nearly as severe but you could make a case for Elvis in a way. while he reportedly really respected Black artists, he kinda sparked “oh we can just steal and profit off Black music”
@jacobdotgov
underrated strength of the Avatar films is that Cameron lets the heroes really *kill* people. Marvel heroes rack up big bloodless body counts, but Jake and Neytiri are bringing carnage in the climax of both those films.
Cameron owns his violence, and his action is better for it
@Carlos_Film
i think it’s the difference between children’s entertainment treating kids like they’re smart enough to think about adult topics versus children’s entertainment that’s, in part, designed to tell adults they’re allowed to be as incurious or unexacting as people assume kids are.
(1) both Duvall and Scatman Crothers *repeatedly and consistently* pushed against the idea they were abused by Kubrick. They say the Shining was a difficult shoot and could be contentious and exhausting, but acting like Kubrick broke Duvall—disregarding her comments—is gross
@AerithsSeat
Identity Crisis is infuriating bc there are a lot of interesting, pulpy ideas in the mix that are all undermined by Meltzer thinking he’s a genius for “what if we made a goofy C-List villain a sadistic rapist??”
@Crispy_3lijah
@queersocialism
Until we’re ready to loudly say that we do not tolerate the cruelty Israel inflicts on Palestine, until WE are the fiercest critics of what Israel says it does on our behalf, why would these children think that actions of Israel and Judaism aren’t one and the same?