You and me seem to think very much alike re: films lol
Terrible. I really, really disliked Weapons and she hardly stands out!
But I have disliked almost every PTA film I've seen, so...
Bracketing the 1000% legit critiques in this vein re: Black women, I thought the film frankly sucked. With the exception of the set piece in the small town with Benicio del Toro, I mostly thought this was pretty boring. Kept hearing about the amazing car chase scene and... it sucked?
It's from a content-farming page that uses AI-generated headlines for engagement. The quote isn't real.
Exactly. Such a fantasy that that would be the quote too. The language is always so hilariously overblown. I saw someone else use the word "wishcasting," which I love and is totally apt.
I am so, so tired of seeing this kind of fake, AI-generated content spread around simply because it flatters a liberal/left position.
This is *not* real. There is no European prosecutor saying these things. It's very clearly not a real quote. Please look stuff up before sharing!
This is not real. It's from a website that creates AI generated headlines to farm engagement.
This is not real. It's from a site that makes its content up to farm engagement.
Yeah, this one was a big "no" from me: a movie about the white-supremacist state of Rhodesia that has very little to say except "racism is kinda bad," and which of course tells the story through the eyes of a white child who doesn't have the capacity to grapple with what's happening.
When did your obsession with hot toxic women begin?
Another "fun" facet of this includes the ways that certain self-styled "scholars" (not Tobias!) look down on librarians, instructional designers, writing & tutoring center staff, etc. without any curiosity about how the "scholars" could be thinking with & learning from others at our institutions.
It was one of my favorite movies the year I saw it for the first time, maybe 3 years ago, and it's one of John Williams's best soundtracks.
Annihilation (2018)
Inititives like this are a huge part of how developers in Canada, Germany, and other countries with such grants were able to wind up such flourishing indie scenes tbh
I 1000% understand this!
"chore" is a great word (but tbf I'm saying this as someone who doesn't like Tolkien all that much). on my own reread, I've already found the just the opening chapter of ROTK to be a better book than almost all of Two Towers combined.
this is what "shit for brains" looks like btw:
i genuinely do not understand why *anyone* would want a phd if they're trying to outsource their thinking to claude.
like, there are no jobs, no work-life balance, no resources (for most of us), and the work gets tougher every year. the thinking is the only fun part, i promise.
because I keep forgetting to mention it: LITERALLY ANYONE can nominate books for this prize! yes! that means you! you have until march 31st!
exactly -- and precisely the reason for this too, as you know. always frustrating!
It's very underwhelming. I think most of The Two Towers is, frankly, not a very good book!
To be even more transparent, I think most of the best writing on sf and fantasy doesn't come from academics, but from critics writing for online magazines/fanzines (i.e. the people who could be nominated for "best fan writer" awards).
painfully true, and worse for fantasy (though it's always been the much nicher of the two)
(also most of the best media criticism today is by grad school dropouts who make 2+ hour video essays on youtube)
It's very true in sf studies and fantasy studies that some of the sharpest voices in the field are either no longer in the field or not securely employed.
Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia
This has been brought home to me again and again in my three years as a Reviews Editor: identify someone with perfect qualifications for reviewing a given publication, search for them, discover last known university position was five years ago.
These bros want it that way because they would really like to buy some intelligence, please, anything to make their brains tick just a little bit, please!
