are we allowed to stop pretending this shit is high-brow yet

If you actually hate Elon Musk the way he needs to be hated you'd be saying whateveryou need to to get selected first

Every politician's a baby who needs to be coddled 24/7 even when they have war crimes in their resume. "What's your favorite dinosaur, Obama? Obama, do you like hamburgers or hot dogs? Hey, what Power Rangers season do you hate the most, Mr. Obama?"

Good movie, TERRIBLE fan base. Respect others’ opinions. And don’t compare directors to holocaust deniers for the cardinal sin of making movies you didn’t enjoy.

And twenty-six years later, The Phantom Menace has gotten one of the most successful rereleases of all time, and every single one of the manchildren exiting that theater have watched the world pass them by.

Only half a dozen? That’s it!? Step it up, guys. Here’ I’ll start:

Heya!

The Kingdom and the Hearts II Kingdom II Hearts Kingdom Hearts: Destiny Drift Kingdom and Hearts Kingdom V Kingdom Hearts VI Hearts VII The F8 of the Heart Heart-IX: The Kingdom Saga Kingdom χ

Excellent to know. Now, what’s the next step for punishing them for such crimes?

You don’t need Disney-level resources and drawing skills to create animation. People have made classics with sand and a source of light. With magazine clippings, or their own bodies animated via stop motion. There’s no barrier to entry, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/sand-and-a...

This is a section of a montage I'm working on for my new video essay, which will be an examination of the Jedi and their involvement in the fall of the Republic in George Lucas' Star Wars films.

The beautiful thing, though, is that the results of Lucas’ art and his technological innovations have transformed the world for the better. Bill Gates and Elon Musk’s AI-infested companies will eventually go out of business and they will die the miserable, broken men they’ve chosen to live as.

i just think that if u start misgendering a trans person because u got a little upset in an argument, u should simply kill yourself.

🎶 Tale as old as time 🎵

"But what do we do after the revolution? What's your BIG PLAN?" Fuck's sake, do y'all really need mommy to hold your hand and write your new constitution for you? Are y'all really that helpless without big bro gummint telling you what to do? Can't even imagine a better world on your own?

King

have a life-size Eva unit on the field or gtfo youtu.be/jmKRgqWGrWc?...

"Oh surely they can't be that bad" "Oh"

On the bright side, at least none of those three people are you-know-who with the poor man’s, neoliberal Star Wars universe that’s pro-slavery and currently being used to fund anti-transgender movements.

Definitely a classic.

Since we’re no longer insisting that the Super Bowl headliner needs to be singing in English, I know who to book for next year…

This is such a well-earned recognition. Most people vastly underestimate how much of modern technology we owe to him and his ideas. I and everyone else who can make video essays about his films on YouTube can only do so because we have access to the digital editing software he invented.

The Secret History of Star Wars is a horribly-written book by a disgruntled prequel hater with an axe to grind against Lucas. Despite how over-eager Kaminski consistently is to try to prove he's done his homework, his writing is filled with inaccuracies and misconceptions.

The key mistake Anakin made when fighting Obi-Wan was that he let his Cortisol spike which allowed Obi-Wan to Techniquemog him. Now he’s a disgusting Sithcel, it’s so over.

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Yes, Luke in RotJ does wear an outfit similar to Obi-Wan's robes in the prequels and ANH. This can once again be undestood via the act of viewing the images on the screen when watching the film and then processing them with your brain. It's simply modified and in black instead of white/beige/brown.

With all the recent Muppet love thanks to the new Disney Plus/ABC special to revive the Muppet Show, it is time to bring back the bombshell that George Lucas dropped during the making of "Attack of the Clones" 🤣

Does anyone watch Seven Samurai and say that Kurosawa clearly didn't know what he was doing because the farmers and samurai were both wearing robes?

The Hoth battle is extraordinary, though I’d still argue the title of “greatest stop-motion sequence” would go to the train chase in The Wrong Trousers!

I’m down bad for a girl right now and brainstorming when to introduce her to the Neil Cicierega Mouth albums, and which track to play for her first.

I don’t think that’s true actually

A perfect inversion of that time when one guy overheard Trebek saying he’d never seen a three-way tie, so he gambled that the other two guys would bet everything in the Final Jeopardy, and he bet the exact amount needed to tie with them, and they all got the answer right.

Hayao Miyazaki

The Gungan tribunal system really shines a spotlight on how funny banishment is as a punishment. “Go away” as court-ordered conviction.

"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?" Because folks don't actually want to discuss AI, they want blind submission to the ideological structures that motivate the contemporary use cases and deployments of AI. They don't want to hear the concerns except to dismiss them out of hand.

There’s a famous scene in a S2 where President Bartlett humiliates a homophobic Bible thumper by schooling her on a bunch of other Bible verses, and then just a few episodes later that same President and his staff scrap the section of a bill that would secure more rights for LGBTQ+ people.

Liberal government staffers who were deluded by The West Wing should have been watching the other late '90s to mid-2000s political drama with Jimmy Smits

I think the thing that gets me about this tech is that it is so widely understood as being “uncool.” They want it to be the next Internet, the next mp3 player, etc, but everyday people often feel the same way about AI as they do about NFTs, blockchain, and cryptocurrency

Makes perfect sense.

Next month. A ten year tribute to a film that had a transformative effect not just on me, but on how we talk about films with strangers on the internet. #VideoEssay #BatmanVSuperman

Kachow

Top man, announcing this mere days after we found out that microtransactions in video games were literally invented by pedophiles as a way to integrate children into late-stage capitalism while their frontal lobes were still developing.

Last October.

Oh we HYPED hyped

Welcome to the home office…

It still never ceases to impress me what Whedon ran the full gamut from having much of his genuine creative command of narrative be thoroughly undermined by the Buffy HD remaster team, to also undermining another filmmaker’s command of narrative when he was brought in to hijack the production.

At some point in the future, I’d like to analyze Marcia’s editing on Taxi Driver and New York, New York. This could help move forward the cultural conversation on her legacy by studying what her editing style brought to films she worked on that weren’t directed by George.

The full Marcia Lucas interview from the Icons Unearthed docuseries was posted to YouTube a few days ago. I’d definitely recommend giving it a watch if you’re at all curious to see one of the few appearances she’s made in recent years. youtu.be/SZh5t7xLGgY?...