90% of modern media criticism just sounds like this

Maybe the most random my last 4 watched has ever looked.

What's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 90s - The Matrix 00s - Kill Bill 10s - War For the Planet of the Apes 20s - Dune Part Two

My full Star Wars ranking: 1. Andor 2. The Last Jedi 3. The Rise of Skywalker 4. A New Hope 5. The Mandalorian 6. The Bad Batch 7. Skeleton Crew 8. Tales of the Underworld 9. Tales of the Empire 10. Tales of the Jedi 11. Maul - Shadow Lord 12. Ahsoka 13. Obi-Wan Kenobi (1/5)

oh you thought you were a writer? no your job is making little videos about writing now. you take photos? nah you make videos about taking photos. painter? you make li

The best breakdown of the film itself and *gestures at the last 40+ years of discourse being broken* I've heard.

How Marvel systematically dumbed down Spider-Man over the decades needs to be studied. A few weeks back I was re-reading some early Big Time era stories but now I'm going back to the 80s Roger Stern stuff... And I don't even hate Dan Slott or the Big Time era but Jesus fuck is it night and day.

Me going into the theater to see The Clone Wars movie vs. Me leaving the theater after seeing The Mandalorian and Grogu

On Mando and Grogu eve, my 10 favorite Star Wars stories at this moment in my life: 10. Attack of the Clones

Television being able to elevate its visual possibilities - from special effects to costuming & stunts - to a theatrical level of quality over the past 10 years has corrupted audiences being able to appreciate a theatrical experience, where a lazy criticism has become “It looks like a TV show.”

Pre-Mando and Grogu Star Wars film ranking

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

Re: Paul Schrader

2020 - Borat 2 2021 - Dune 1 2022 - The Batman 2023 - Across the Spider-Verse 2024 - Dune 2 2025 - Frankenstein

Ya know in the long run maybe America should've stayed a British colony

FBI once again (!) confirming, in public, that they plan to make being transgender a federal crime - and it's crickets at best from the Democrats and the media.

Pretty sure someone who is a friend that I've had conversations with irl is using A.I. to generate his responses to me in text...

The country is being run by petty Karens, man

Do they still make cars and soda or is it just pills and AI ads now?

"Everything my friend does is correct they can make no mistakes"

Make Peter Thiel into the villain, Democrats. It's all there. He is the node that connects Trump, Vance, Palantir, Musk, Epstein, and so many other terrible players. Just expose it and make him and Musk the face of these psychopathic billionaires ruining our lives.

No accountability for racism in the same way there’s no accountability for the Epstein files, the murders, the concentration camps, the gutting of programs and the starvation of children, etc. They will never take out their own trash. It’s gotta be us. We have to make all of this shameful again.

Appeals to decency are never going to work. They’re not going to disavow the President for posting that racist garbage about the Obamas, in the same way they’ve never disavowed him any other time. When they do that, they’re not making mistakes — they’re *campaigning.* That’s their platform.

The misinformation on Instagram about the Epstein files is fucking out of control had to delete the app

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Man if only Rian Johnson had made a movie about how following the path of the Jedi is still important, noble, and heroic despite the order's problematic past.

“I don’t do politics.” Yes you do. Low wages? That’s politics. High prices? That’s politics. War? That’s politics. The world won’t spare you for not “doing” politics. Stay informed.

Rather than pick a favorite, I gotta say the feat of turning a licensing company back into a production company is amazing.

Star Trek has always been political. On The Lieutenant, Gene Roddenberry's series before Trek, scripts on racial bigotry and the inhumanity of warfare met network censorship. GR designed ST to use s-f allegory to tell stories that wouldn't otherwise be allowed on network TV.

“_____ doesn’t advance the plot” is one of the most internet-brained, empty criticisms one can offer. Something can be important to the story without being a plot domino. “Plot” is a mere sequence of events while “story” is the totality of the mechanical, thematic and emotional experience.

Every bit of western culture popular narrative underlined what is right and wrong and that so many just entirely missed it is so disheartening.

When you watch the horrifying video of ICE agents murdering another human in Minneapolis at point-blank range, remember that these violent, untrained thugs have been empowered by a sadistic criminal who occupies our White House. This cannot go on.

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week

i do genuinely think we need to jail every single person currently working for ICE

The director of the Minneapolis Emergency Management Department.

This is a white supremacist paramilitary operation. Their goal—their stated goal!—is to force America to submit to the President's racist domineering vision for the country. The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

I love this idea that Filoni is gonna turn Star Wars into an all white bro-y fan service thing when he fucking has praised the sequel trilogy, Rogue One, has created almost exclusively POC and women characters, was a close collaborator on Acolyte,

Dude I can't stand the "all Dave does is nostalgia slop" BULLSHIT.

It would’ve been awesome if at the end of Episode IX, Ben Solo turned good, fought evil, and fulfilled his grandfather’s wish of saving people from death, all before moving into a state of immortality that had previously only been attained by six other people. And maybe Leia crosses over with him!

I wrote my reps in California, encouraging them to speak out and demand clarification on Trump's post about Rob Reiner & Michele Singer. Trump is a narcissist and an asshole and I don't think every comment is worth following up. But implying mysterious knowledge of a double homicide demands action

I first heard @realgdt.bsky.social was making Frankenstein about 15 yrs ago. As a huge fan of both the story and your work I was so hyped and I have to say you delivered. The best film to be made in the last 2 decades. An emotional experience that hit me right where I live. What filmmaking SHOULD be

Folks, please speak about Charlie Kirk with the same respect he would show a marginalized individual in a similar situation.

At no point in this entire article of 16 paragraphs does ABC mention that another cop killed this cop by shooting her in the back. Nor does it mention the name of the cop who killed this cop. Nor does it mention that the civilians involved never fired at them. ABC might as well be state media.