kicking off my NYFF62 coverage for
@Slant_Magazine
, I reviewed Stranger Eyes, an uneven thriller buoyed by the characteristically terrific Lee Kang-sheng performance at its center:
ok this is getting a bit of attention. some criteria
-fictional. george washington doesnt count; that's a real guy
-first names might be allowed. idk. havent decided yet
-a couple people have suggested a character from the office. with all due respect i'll be disregarding these
saw a guy on the subway holding the heat 2 galley, asked him if he went to the tribeca screening, he said yes, we talked for a bit, right before his stop he handed me the book and was adamant that i keep it. angels are real and they walk among us
i think one of the more straightforward reasons most video game criticism sucks is that most video game critics don't actually have any frames of artistic or cultural reference outside of video games
to the startlingly large number of people who have said that the animation i made in flipnote studio when i was 12 of king boo singing perry gripp's "do you like waffles" was a big part of their childhood: thank you sincerely, i love you, have a good day
Fun fact: This video was made back around 2009 by a creator named Gizmo using the Nintendo Dsi app called Flipnote Studio. Uploading it to Flipnote Hatena (studios version of YouTube) he was not only one of the funniest animators around BUTT also inspired a lot of my work today!
@DannyVegito
once when i was working at gamestop a guy called asking if he could buy a copy of battletoads and i said "that depends. do you have the amulet?" and he hung up
in the course of writing that piece i came across this promotional image, which i had somehow never seen, and is now one of my favorite pictures in the whole world
the substance is probably really bad but i'm also a huge sucker for that pop art in-your-face uppercase sans serif stark-white-and-primary-colors mise en scene thing it's got going on
the fact that i just saw the "HACKERS GET EVERY AMERICAN'S SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER" headline and didn't feel panicked or even nervous is probably mostly on me but i'm going to pretend it's society's fault instead
which filmmakers are best at finding beauty and lyricism in post-2000s hyper-modernity? first few that come to mind for me are mann, hou, lynch, assayas, kurosawa, the wachowskis. but those feel like kinda boilerplate picks
@Srirachachau
if i had one hundred billion dollars i would simply not irreparably destroy my public image in a desperate bid for the approval of "cat turd 2"
people seem particularly upset by this (very obviously tongue in cheek) paragraph but if i got even one person to google kyoshi kurosawa then i'm gonna call it a net win
Absolutely fascinated by press folks who are jumping at the throat to defend the piece and claim everyone is a loser for not agreeing with "mild criticism" and then you read the piece and it reads like a 4chan /v/ shitposter who has been given a gig. Fascinating development.
@transgamerthink
i've obviously seen it happen to other ppl but still, wasn't fully prepared for what it would feel like to get hundreds of replies to a piece that could more or less all be answered with "did you read it" lol
take this far enough and you get someone like matthewmatosis, who has plenty of valuable insights on game design but is so clearly uninterested in assessing what games are doing on anything beyond a mechanical level. extremely limited basis for critique
actually everything wrong with modern film criticism is guys who review movies like they're solving math problems getting tomatometer approval and immediately thinking they're manny farber
@eviIcherub
can't quite parse this new strain of accounts that seem like bots but their posts are just contextually precise enough that they might not be
not in a smarmy "good luck with THAT" way, in an "it's great more young people are gonna watch this" way. if i'd watched jeanne dielman ten years ago it would've completely rewired my brain and i'm thrilled for anyone who gets to have that experience
@Srirachachau
probably my fave 2010s spielberg, and one of the only cgi animated films that really seems to understand the medium's potential. iirc theres an interview where berg talks about how he was getting dozens more shots per day than usual because he was having so much fun experimenting
Marvel announces new non-binary superheroes: Snowflake and Safespace
'It's this idea that these are terms that get thrown around on the internet that they don't see as derogatory ... and kind of wear them as badges of honor'
(via
@Marvel
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i didnt review the venture bros movie but since it looks like embargo is up: it's very very good. feels less like a big epic event that tries to cram in a million climactic ideas and more like a feature-length episode of the show. which is exactly what it needed to be!
was very happy to contribute to this with a few words on Kristen Stewart in Crimes of the Future, whose performance as Timlin (never gets old) is very easily one of my favorites of the year:
@capybaroness
for me personally it's because I'm excited to see the beautiful, expressive, dynamic animation of the original flattened into a patchwork of mud-colored cgi screensavers. idk about other people though
typed "difference between" into google and the first two suggestions were "difference between communism and socialism" and "difference between vegito and gogeta"
@Srirachachau
really appreciate that they never gave him a big redeeming moment, you just spend enough time with him that you start to like him. also unrelated but publick's "dean, that's a teen-ager" in this scene is one of my favorite deliveries in the whole show lol
i admittedly don't think about these animations too often so i'm pretty floored whenever i'm reminded that they apparently had such a wide reach. reading through the replies to this tweet is making me mist up lol.
my hope for this (fantastic) movie is that people watch it thinking it's just like a cool low-fi horror thing and then 2 hours later google "Estradiol"
@justbrizigs
one of my cousins does stop motion professionally, got to visit his studio once and watch him work and was genuinely so moved by the experience. can hardly fathom the amount of dedication it must take
For my
@Kotaku
debut, I went long on the thematic continuum of the Xeno series, the ambition of director Tetsuya Takahashi, and what makes Xenoblade Chronicles 3 such an affecting culmination of ideas:
yesterday i casually remarked to some friends that i didn't think Kate Winslet showed boob in Titanic and within thirty seconds one of them had pulled up the movie and paused on the exact frame where she shows boob. very important in life to surround oneself with people like this
i don't even have the energy to be upset about bernie not doing well. me and millions of other young people scared to death about the future have been screaming ourselves hoarse for years and it's clear by now that the establishment will never listen. so, fuck it
@capybaroness
most effective thing about this shot (to me) was always the contrast between the stark fluorescent lighting on his body and his eyes being so dark that you can't tell where they're looking, so it's good that the new one arbitrarily fucks both of these things up