You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I learned to drive more out of necessity than anything else, personally
This is not something we should believe, but it’s something we should worry about. Pegg is right that movies like Star Wars (and Jaws and Indie) were important during the 1970s-80s transition from movies with downtown premieres to the suburban multiplex. Sure, you can’t blame a single film for the shift toward spectacle and merchandising, and we shouldn’t blame science-fiction for the rise of the summer blockbuster...but many of the cherished movies of our collective youth are complicit in an economic and aesthetic transformation of the American cinema that has turned out to be kind of sucky.
The error is mistaking genre for franchising. Blockbusters changed science-fiction, so that we have more films like the dumb-but-fun Independence Day and fewer films with the satirical playfulness of Zardoz and The Day the Earth Stood Still. At its best, as we know, science-fiction is a font of irreverent smarts, and it says things that more respectable culture cannot. But Star Wars is not that; it’s a delightful tissue of nostalgic appeal and technical virtuosity, which is not a problem unless it crowds too many other things out of our lives.
Simon Pegg is not talking out his ass, but the problem is not that genre films are making us dumber but that our justifiable affection for genre tempts us to make something like Age of Ultron into a film whose obvious aesthetic compromises deserve terabytes of prestidigitation. We want the people who make our science-fiction to be worried that the genre says too little that’s worth saying. That doubt is not a betrayal; it’s how you carry the torch.
I agree with Pegg generally, but I will say that he misses that the era of arty films that had mainstream success that he deifies was a 10/15 year blip in the general shitty state of Hollywood.
something simon pegg has completely missed which is a p key factor in whats hes talking about, which is the general globalisation of hollywood's audience
the cultural nuances and subtle plots of films like 'the godfather' et al would not necessarily translate well into being big global blockbusters whereas spectacle, superheroes, robots and big explosions translate pretty well across cultures. foreign markets are incredibly important for hollywood nowadays, way more so than in the 70s/80s.
the move towards merchandising is something tht has just come about with films being more readily available online and also just general capitallist need for continually growing profits
this isnt to say that people from other cultures cannot appreciate something like the godfather, but it's much less likely to become a worldwide smash hit than a film where someone can go in and watch superman punch godzilla in the face and a load of skyscrapers blow up and there are robots.
it seems obvious but itis a bit of a cognitive leap to go from 'hollywodd is more about spectacle nowadays' and to then think of the consumption of hollywood films in china
Go to a dollar tree. They probably have them cheaper
I bought one from Dollar Tree.
It gradually hewed outward and now I have two barely-even-functional can openers. I feel like I'm actually dreading opening cans because of this.
The first one was this expensive one bought years ago in Hong Kong that is designed to slice open can lids from the side, making them safer to handle. It's an excellent design, but it's worn out and I don't know how to fix it.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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I've had my license almost four years
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
If you don't, them until you do, you will always be chained to who you are
the cultural nuances and subtle plots of films like 'the godfather' et al would not necessarily translate well into being big global blockbusters whereas spectacle, superheroes, robots and big explosions translate pretty well across cultures. foreign markets are incredibly important for hollywood nowadays, way more so than in the 70s/80s.
the move towards merchandising is something tht has just come about with films being more readily available online and also just general capitallist need for continually growing profits
never mind it's "venerate"
funny thing is that only on my second listen did i notice the fact that this was advertising a CD
because the first time i listened to it, i switched to another tab as soon as i had clicked the video
lol
also i approve of this advertisement
see, i don't hate all ads
i presume the local Target sells them
i don't know why I didn't go there any sooner
i didnt think of that independently i read it somewhere and have just remembered it.
It gradually hewed outward and now I have two barely-even-functional can openers. I feel like I'm actually dreading opening cans because of this.
The first one was this expensive one bought years ago in Hong Kong that is designed to slice open can lids from the side, making them safer to handle. It's an excellent design, but it's worn out and I don't know how to fix it.
The piece that's supposed to push into the can lid has gradually been pushed upward, so it's harder and harder for it to pierce the lids.
except the ones that aren't shit
but those are considered shit by some other people too
so they're also shit
it's just like how there are at least two mutually-exclusive religions that claim that non-believers go to hell
therefore, everyone goes to hell
the $1 can opener lasted me a few months
no duh i should buy a longer-lasting single product