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4 days agoIt’s a casual reminder that sequels and rehashing existing IP are easy money.
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28·6 days agoI’d been waiting for Valve’s latest hardware before jumping into VR home experiences. I hope the real-world product reviews live up to expectations.
Throwing a big second behind Sister Midnight. Loved that one.
“Select theaters” == NYC and LA: https://www.neonrated.com/film/arco
First line:
As slow as the box office has been this month, it could have been so much worse had it not been for an unprecedented savior: anime.
Theatrical venues, starved for features whose theatrical window has gone from 6-12 months to a matter of weeks, is basically willing to screen anything that puts butts in seats.
Blah blah blah blah one existing screen in the US…
- Dallas, TX: Cinemark Webb Chapel
…plus 3 more before next year:
- Woodridge, IL (Chicago): Cinemark Seven Bridges
- Colorado Springs, CO: Cinemark Carefree Circle
- Rochester, NY: Cinemark Tinseltown
2·22 days agoI’ve only seen the animated series, so that.
Barakamon (2014)
After torpedoing his career, a young, lonely calligrapher gets sent to a remote island community where he befriends the local townsfolk and a precocious child. Its quite lovely and I think you’ll like it a lot.
And it looks like someone has put the entire series, with English subtitles, up on YouTube:
I’ll admit that this does sound kind of like a joke suggestion, but I’m serious, after a hard day, sit down, suck up your pride and put an episode or two of Bluey on. It’s a warm blanket on a cold day.
I’ve heard Jordan Crucchiola argue for what she calls “a well-crafted” jump scare, but I haven’t heard them actually describe what that is or provide a solid example of one.
Depending on the taxonomy of scares and what technically does and doesn’t quality as a “jump” scare, two of my favorites come from early M. Night Shyamalan.
From The Sixth Sense…,
spoiler
the slow pan inside the tent made of bedsheets,
and from Signs…
spoiler
the initial monster in the news footage.
More-so that many other jump-scares I’ve seen, those felt earned. The framing was creative. You recognize that there’s something scary coming up, but the plot is shaped such that you don’t know what you’re about to see. The expectation and the not-knowing are far far more important to the scare than simply the virtual invasion-of-space and sharp orchestra sting.
17·24 days agoAges and ages ago, I was looking for free stencils of a fist for a screen printing project and found this one in the commons:
I swear I’ve seen it everywhere for the last 15 years.
ctrl-f: "vineland", phrase not found ctrl-f: "pynchon", phrase not foundHmm.
Market research based on the Fantastic Four movie. Maybe people are looking favorably at retro-futurism these days.
Tomorrowland was a mess, but perhaps ironically before its time.
…from what we’ve seen, audiences aren’t interested in watching computer-generated content untethered from the human experience.
My sweet summer child have you never seen a toddler with an iPad?
3·1 month agoI saw a video on YouTube with some techniques on how to not core your vile. I started doing this and haven’t had problems since.
If I recall correctly, it involves going in at a pretty steep angle, something like 30° off perpendicular to the membrane. Put the attack point of the needle (bevel facing up) right on the existing hole of the membrane and push the needle down slightly to try to reopen that same hole, then slide the needle into it. Once the tip is thru the membrane, you can angle the needle straight in.
This is the way, including the baggies so you can assemble a bunch of kits with everything you need for one dose. We use 18G to draw and 22G to inject.
Needle length depends on where you’re injecting and how far you need to reach to hit muscle (ie: how big yo ass is).
Benny Safdie doesn’t make box-office-numbers kinds of movies.
Besides, Johnson’s producing it. It’s his money. He wanted Oscar bait and got Oscar bait.
45·2 months agoThis is your casual reminder that Lemmy was built to support RSS. Just look for the RSS logo on the top of any community’s list of posts:
And for those pining for the old days of Google Reader, I have been a huge fan of Newsblur.
Seeing the comments here, I’m reposting what I said in the [email protected] community earlier today:
Look at the last 5 original properties released by Walt Disney Animation (not Pixar)…
…versus the last 5 live-ish-action re-hashes of existing properties…
You and I might hate them, but they’re a better financial bet. There is, literally, no accounting for good taste (at least in the short term).
Disney hasn’t abandoned the development of new animated film properties (Hexed in 2026, Gatto in 2027). They know that it’s wise to keep building from scratch, if only to uncover new gems that can then be rehashed for even more money later.
Also, one of the primary reasons I spend so much effort maintaining the content of [the trailers] community is to help uncover new movies that may have otherwise slipped under someone’s radar. If you want new animated films, you don’t have to rely on the mouse house.