As He died to make men holy
Let us die to make things cheap

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  • I think most great artists pursue their art because of a love of the art. Film making is expensive and like everyone else they need to put food on the table, but any artist who is in it for the money is already lost.

    I haven’t seen Megalopolis yet, but I think it’s a great example of a film maker having no interest in return of investment. The closing statements of Life of Brian is another great example: “I told him, I said to him, Bernie, I said, they’ll never make their money back.”

    As for Fortnite, it might be more similar to Roblox than I thought. ;)


  • Yeah, and it’s particularly unreliable for new movies. And even when it’s not abused it’s obviously just a measure of popular taste - which is widely known to be pretty shit. So yeah, I agree with your reluctance towards that source.

    Nevertheless, checking 10/10 reviews of Tarantino’s short on IMDB, one of the top reviews boast about how “the entire fight scene including the usage of curses like the original films do”—as if hearing a character from their favorite video game swear is such a thrill it justifies a top score. It’s hard to be to optimistic.

    I don’t think the haters care much about fortnite, we just don’t like sell-outs. My only feelings towards fortnite is that I’m happy my nephew is finally playing something else than fucking roblox. Tarantino would have been equally wise to team up with either, in my opinion.





  • I guess there’s a justification of sorts in the way Kill Bill itself deals with the animated sequence, having the style of animation change as we progress through time. So in a way this puts it in the present. Which would be easier to justify had Kill Bill been a new movie, but maybe this sequence takes place a few years later.

    But even if so… Yeah, I find this hard to accept. Why not cooperate with a real studio. I would have been so excited—now I just don’t care at all.


  • I think instances with ideological underpinnings is fine, and maybe inevitable. The crucial thing is that they need to be honest about it, so that those not interested can go elsewhere.

    The problem with lemmy.ml is that it pretends to be a catch-all instance when it’s in fact very much not, and that it doesn’t tell users up front what it’s all about. Both Hexbear and Lemmygrad are better in that respect—at least they’re honest.





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